{"id":2134,"date":"2026-07-13T13:03:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/?page_id=2134"},"modified":"2026-07-13T13:03:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:03:06","slug":"arti-dhand","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/?page_id=2134","title":{"rendered":"ARTI DHAND"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ARTI DHAND<br>University of Toronto\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 arti.dhand@utoronto.ca\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NEW GOD, OLD SHOES: K\u1e5a\u1e62\u1e46A IN THE <em>UDYOGAPARVA<\/em> OF THE <em>MAH\u0100BH\u0100RATA<\/em> Barring K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u2019s self-revelation in the Kaurava court, Book V of the <em>Mah\u0101bh\u0101rata<\/em>&nbsp;is not the most dramatic of its many volumes, mostly absorbed in anxious deliberations and negotiations, initially for peace and ultimately for war. Its discursive character, however, belies a transition of a more momentous kind, in the Hindu conception of deity.&nbsp;Whereas K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a&nbsp;is widely billed in text and tradition as an embodiment of Vi\u1e63\u1e47u, in the <em>Udyogaparvan<\/em> we see him out of Vi\u1e63\u1e47u\u2019s shadow, a distinctive figure at odds with the heritage of Vi\u1e63\u1e47u.&nbsp;This paper will examine a critical boundary between K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a and Vi\u1e63\u1e47u, one the <em>Udyogaparvan<\/em> complicates to introduce a new paradigm of God into Hinduism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARTI DHANDUniversity of Toronto\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 arti.dhand@utoronto.ca\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NEW GOD, OLD SHOES: K\u1e5a\u1e62\u1e46A IN THE UDYOGAPARVA OF THE MAH\u0100BH\u0100RATA Barring K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u2019s self-revelation in the Kaurava court, Book V of the Mah\u0101bh\u0101rata&nbsp;is not the most dramatic of its many volumes, mostly absorbed in anxious deliberations and negotiations, initially for peace and ultimately for war. Its discursive character, however, belies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2134","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2135,"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2134\/revisions\/2135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}