By Georges Dumezil (Author), Alf Hiltebeitel (Translator)
ISBN-10: 0226169758
ISBN-13: 9780226169750
The preeminent pupil of comparative stories of Indo-European society, Georges Dum?zil theorized that old and prehistoric Indo-European tradition and literature revolved round 3 significant features: sovereignty, strength, and fertility. This paintings treats those services as they're articulated via "first king" legends present in Indian, Iranian, and Celtic epics, fairly the Mahabharata. Dum?zil, drawing on a very huge diversity of Indo-European resources from Scandinavia to India and providing an unique and provocative analytic strategy, set a brand new time table for reviews in comparative oral literature, historic linguistics, comparative mythology, and historical past of religions. The future of a King examines one of many "little" epics in the Mahabharata—the legend of King Yayati, ancestor of the Pandavas, the heroes of the bigger epic. Dum?zil compares Yayati's attributes and activities with these of the mythical Celtic king Eochaid Feidlech and likewise reveals impressive similarities within the tales surrounding the daughters of those kings, the Indian Madhavi and the Celtic Medb. whilst he compares those traditions with the "first king" legends from Iran, he unearths such universal issues because the apportionment of the earth and the "sin of the sovereign."
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M e n t a l or v e r b a l , such is i n d e e d t h e o u t c o m e of this b u r s t of vanity. T h e a u t h o r of t h e fifth b o o k s h o w s t h e k i n g t r e m b l i n g w i t h fear, b u r n i n g w i t h r e m o r s e u n d e r his faded g a r l a n d s , s h o r n of his c r o w n , o r n a m e n t s , a n d r o b e s . H e falls, a p u p p e t w i t h o u t strings, a m i d t h e m o c k e r y of t h e celestial host. * T h e hapless k i n g does, h o w e v e r , k e e p e n o u g h p r e s e n c e of m i n d t o c o n c e r n h i m s e l f w i t h w h e r e h e s h o u l d l a n d o n e a r t h .
H e e v e n t o u r s t h e n u m e r o u s paradises, s o j o u r n i n g s o m e t i m e s in o n e , s o m e t i m e s in a n o t h e r . B u t o n e day a fault a p p e a r s in his p e r f e c t i o n : in t h e fifth b o o k , this t a k e s place m e n t a l l y a n d s p o n t a n e o u s l y , w h i l e in b o o k o n e it t a k e s place v e r b a l l y a n d u n d e r p r o v o c a t i o n . T h e fifth b o o k ' s r e n d i t i o n is especially m o v i n g . ^ After t h e s e i n n u m e r a b l e m i l l e n n i a s p e n t in t h e g r e a t e s t h a p p i n e s s , o n e day, s e a t e d a m i d t h e m o s t illustrious fsis, h e is o v e r c o m e b y a foolish sense of p r i d e w h i c h p r o d u c e s a feeling of scorn for t h e g o d s , rsis, a n d m e n .
It is t h u s t h a t Yayati's g r a n d s o n s reestablish t h e i r g r a n d f a t h e r in his celestial b e a t i t u d e b y t u r n i n g to his account t h e m e r i t s w h i c h t h e y h a v e w o n t h e m s e l v e s . 4. T H E TRUTH O n c e t h e g e n e r a l parallelism b e t w e e n t h e Indian a n d t h e Iranian accounts has b e e n observed, a trait of t h e f o r m e r calls for further e x a m i n a t i o n . U p to n o w , w e h a v e a d m i t t e d t h a t t h e four types of m e r i t s possessed b y Yayati's g r a n d s o n s , like t h e four sources of his o w n m e r i t s d u r i n g his terrestrial reign, w e r e h o m o g e n e o u s , t h e m e r i t s of t h e first function m e r e l y being considered u n d e r t w o aspects.
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