caa a22 4500 388087102 CHVBK 20180307125233.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199911 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S1356186300011548 doi S1356186300011548 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S1356186300011548 Allen N.J. Arjuna and the Second Function: A Dumézilian Crux [Elektronische Daten] [N.J. Allen] Arjuna is in many ways the central character of the Mahābhārata, the great Sanskrit epic. By order of birth he is the third among the Pāṇḍavas, the five sons of Pānḍu, who represent the forces of cosmic order. When, after humiliation and exile, the Pānḍ;avas finally triumph, primogeniture prevails, and it is the eldest brother, Yudhisfhira, who takes the throne; but in other respects, Arjuna is usually a more salient figure than his dutiful eldest brother. Thus it is to Arjuna that Krishna addresses his teaching in the Bhagavad Gitā (part of Book 6 of the Epic). Moreover although Pānḍu is pater to the five brothers, each has his own divine genitor, and the genitor of Arjuna is Indra, king of the gods in the classical pantheon. A paper about Arjuna is a paper about a major figure in Hindu tradition. Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1999 Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Cambridge University Press 9/3(1999-11), 403-418 1356-1863 9:3<403 1999 9 JRA https://doi.org/10.1017/S1356186300011548 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1356186300011548 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Allen N.J. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Cambridge University Press 9/3(1999-11), 403-418 1356-1863 9:3<403 1999 9 JRA CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge