{"id":2257,"date":"2026-07-13T13:34:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/?page_id=2257"},"modified":"2026-07-13T13:34:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:34:24","slug":"luca-piscopo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/?page_id=2257","title":{"rendered":"Luca Piscopo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LUCA PISCOPO<br>University of Naples L\u2019Orientale\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 lucapiscopo97@gmail.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PUR\u0100\u1e46AS BEYOND BOUNDARIES, OR: THE MISERY OF BEING BORN ACCORDING TO THE <em>M\u0100RKA\u1e46\u1e0cEYAPUR\u0100\u1e46A<\/em> AND THE <em>\u015aIVADHARMOTTARA<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this paper I will explore the structural and thematic similarities between <em>M\u0101rka\u1e47\u1e0deyapur\u0101\u1e47a<\/em> 11 and <em>\u015aivadharmottara<\/em> 8. Both texts present a meditation on the misery of sa\u1e43s\u0101ric existence: the suffering of gestation and birth, the loss of knowledge at embodiment, the pains of childhood, youth, old age and death, including suffering experienced even in the divine realms. Although the two chapters do not share verbatim parallels, they display closely comparable thematic sequencing and rhetorical organization, suggesting a comparison based on structure and themes rather than direct textual borrowing. Moreover, a wider look at the surrounding chapters further strengthens the comparison: in both works, this depiction of suffering appears among sections devoted to related themes such as <em>karman<\/em>, rebirth, and descriptions of hells. By comparing these two chapters, this paper examines how <em>\u015aivadharmottara<\/em> 8 inherits and transforms shared motifs and a common rhetorical structure. Crucially, where <em>M\u0101rka\u1e47\u1e0deyapur\u0101\u1e47a<\/em> channels reflection on sa\u1e43s\u0101ric suffering toward yoga and mok\u1e63a, <em>\u015aivadharmottara<\/em> 8 redirects it toward detachment and \u015aaiva devotion. The comparison thus sheds light on the circulation and transformation of didactic models across Brahmanical and \u015aaiva literary traditions and invites us to read <em>\u015aivadharmottara<\/em> 8 as a carefully structured sermon that inherits (and perhaps consciously reassigns) the existential mechanics of Pur\u0101\u1e47ic suffering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUCA PISCOPOUniversity of Naples L\u2019Orientale\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 lucapiscopo97@gmail.com PUR\u0100\u1e46AS BEYOND BOUNDARIES, OR: THE MISERY OF BEING BORN ACCORDING TO THE M\u0100RKA\u1e46\u1e0cEYAPUR\u0100\u1e46A AND THE \u015aIVADHARMOTTARA In this paper I will explore the structural and thematic similarities between M\u0101rka\u1e47\u1e0deyapur\u0101\u1e47a 11 and \u015aivadharmottara 8. Both texts present a meditation on the misery of sa\u1e43s\u0101ric existence: the suffering of gestation and [&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-2257","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2257","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=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2258,"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2257\/revisions\/2258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dicsep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}