Siva’s Summa on Rishidharma and the Gleaners of Kurukshetra
by
Alf Hiltebeitel
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
In Indian mythological texts like the Mahābhārata and Rāmāyaṇa, there are recurrent tales about gleaners. The practice of "gleaning" in India had more to do with the house-less forest life than with residential village or urban life or with gathering residual post-harvest grains from...