Interpolations in the Mahābhārata: The Attempted Disrobing Episode

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Journal of Hindu Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-04 DOI:10.1093/jhs/hiad001

Arun Vinayak Jategaonkar, Vasanti Arun Jategaonkar

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Abstract The present paper is about originality and contents of a well-known episode in the Mahābhārata: The episode in the aftermath of the first dicing contest from the Sabhāparvan in which Duḥśāsana, ordered by Karṇa, attempts to disrobe Draupadī in the Kuru Sabhā. The paper shows that the episode in question is not only interpolated in the text of the Mahābhārata relatively recently; it was interpolated in two separate steps. The first step was the interpolation of the version in which, as Duḥśāsana started to disrobe Draupadī, a miracle took place and Duḥśāsana, try as he might, was unable to disrobe her; the second step was the interpolation of Draupadī’s prayer and Kr̥ṣṇa’s intervention from the popular version of that episode as the source of that miracle. The paper also shows that the Critical Edition of the Mahābhārata contains much more data supporting the preceding conclusions than has been hitherto recognised. The paper explores the implications of these findings for the basic rules used by the editors of the critical edition of the Mahābhārata to construct its critically reconstituted text.

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穿插在Mahābhārata:试图脱衣的情节

本论文是关于Mahābhārata中一个著名的插曲的原创性和内容:在Sabhāparvan的第一次掷骰子比赛之后的插曲中，Duḥśāsana在Karṇa的命令下，试图在Kuru sabhha中脱衣draupadi。本文表明，这一插曲不仅是在最近的Mahābhārata文本中插入的;它是分两步插入的。第一步是插补的版本，当Duḥśāsana开始脱掉draupadi的衣服时，奇迹发生了，而Duḥśāsana，尽他所能，无法脱掉她的衣服;第二步是插入draupadi的祈祷和Kr ā ṣṇa的干预，从那个故事的流行版本作为奇迹的来源。该论文还表明，Mahābhārata的关键版包含比迄今为止公认的更多的数据支持上述结论。本文探讨了这些发现的含义为编辑使用的基本规则的批判版Mahābhārata构建其批判性重构文本。

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