Concept
Arjuna
Overview
central character of Indian epic Mahabharata
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At length he is even compelled to part with her, until, as the tale will have it, after many adventures, he is once more set on the throne of his original happiness. The real conflict upon which for the Indians of old days the whole of this story was supported was an essential desecration of a sacred thing: according to our notions the tale is absurd from beginning to end.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 1
Close in meaning to Arjuna; the term itself is not named.
Now, the similarity of this development to that of the ancient drama is so marked that, even where details are lacking, we may regard the nature of the transitions as identical so far as their general features are concerned. Indeed, we should doubtless be justified in assuming that in whatever other localities a dramatic art was perfected, as, for example, in India, the course of development was essentially the same…
Wilhelm Max Wundt, Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind
Close in meaning to Arjuna; the term itself is not named.
A former king of the country had sent to Central India and got a slip of the patra tree, which he planted by the side of the hall of Buddha, where a tree grew up to the height of about two hundred cubits. As it bent on one side towards the southeast, the king, fearing it would fall, propped it with a post eight or nine spans around. The tree began to grow at the very heart of the prop, where it met the trunk; a…
Confucius, Chinese literature
Close in meaning to Arjuna; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Arjuna
Related ideas
- Deva (Hinduism)
- Hinduism
- India
- Indonesia
- Vedas
- Karma
- Kali Yuga
- Bhakti
- Moksha
- Kyoto University
- Mahabharata
- Mantra
- Indian subcontinent
- Bhagavad Gita
- Pandava
- Brahmin
- University of Cambridge
- Sanskrit
- Shiva
- Vyasa
- Hindu philosophy
- Puranas
- Krishna
- Java
Place in the tradition
Part of Dharma.