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  • Book Name The Nasiketa Story: Nasiketopakhyana
  • Author Amos Nevo
  • Language, Pages English, 345 Pgs. (HB)
  • Last Updated 2022 / 07 / 26
  • ISBN 9788120834835, 8120834836
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This book is the first critical edition of a comprehensive Sanskrit version of the Nasiketa myth, with a full translation into English. The text is composed of several manuscripts belonging to the same branch of story development and is compared to the printed Sanskrit versions and to some others, still in manuscript form.

The introduction presents a short analysis of the religious-philosophic ideas conveyed by the Naciketa story throughout the generations, based on the author's PhD dissertation. It divides the Naciketa story corpus into three patterns and leaves extensive scope for further research-literary, religious, philosophic, etc.

Amos Nevo was born in Israel and is living in Jerusalem. He graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Middle Eastern Studies and in Philosophy of Education. He served for 30 years as a supervisor at the Israeli Ministry of Education both in the Arab and Hebrew sectors. His main field of interest is Advaita Vedanta.

His first encounter with the Naciketa story was in the early 1960s at the Hebrew University and later on he wrote a thesis about the educational implications of Kathopanisad. His Ph.D. dissertation is about the Naciketa Story on which he also wrote a few articles.

 

Preface

This book is the outcome of my long-term relationship with Naciketas. I first encountered Naciketas in the early 1960s in Dr. T. Gelblum’s course about Kathopanisad at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I was so intrigued by his story that over the next 30 years, I repeatedly returned to it. In 1994 I decided to write a thesis about the educational implications of Kathopanisad and then a PhD dissertation on Naciketas.

Neciketas is the human hero of the Kathopanisad story. The narrative serves as the framework for presenting a new philosophic message the idea of Moksa liberation achieved by spiritual efforts by knowledge Naciketas is a very attractive young boy. Seized with a sudden enigmatic spirit of faith Sraddha confronts his father trying to save him from the disastrous results of what he considers an erroneous sacrifice. When his father curses him to death he obediently goes to meet Yama the lord of death. Naciketas is easily sympathized with conceived as the innocent victim of his father’s excessive rage. He is attractive also because of his strong personality as a young child he resists Yama’s temptations relinquishing the world’s most desirable pleasure for the sake of spiritual knowledge a model for any seeker of absolute truth.

Neciketas's character has undergone many changes in the various versions of the story and so had my attitude towards him. While examining all aspects of Neciketa's behaviour in the different scriptures my initial fascination and attraction to the poor heroic child has become a more balanced attitude. In the later versions, Neciketas is no more a seeker of spiritual truth but rather the representative of Dharma reporting his experiences in Yama’s realm. Moreover in Varadha Purana and even more so in Nasiketopakhyana Neciketa's conduct towards his father is portrayed in a way that may arouse doubt as to his total innocence in the curse scene. Nevertheless, the story remains fantastic and fascinating attractive to Hindus and non-Hindus alike to modern scholars and artists as well as to common people.

This presentation of the Nasiketopakhyana is the first academic work dealing comprehensively with all the Sanskrit versions of the Neciketas/Nasiketa story and the first translation into English of a critically edited text based on several manuscripts and printed versions.

 

Contents

 

Preface ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction: The Story Features and Themes xiii
Chapter 1 Uddalaka’s Anxiety 1
Chapter 2 Candravati’s Entrance into the forest 16
Chapter 3 The Father and Son Meeting 32
Chapter 4 Candravati’s Marriage 45
Chapter 5 Seeing Dharmaraja 72
Chapter 6 Father and Son Dialogue 90
Chapter 7 Hell 110
Chapter 8 Forms of Sin 129
Chapter 9 The Destruction of Evil Souls 133
Chapter 10 The Beautiful Story 146
Chapter 11 The Punishers 159
Chapter 12 Kala and the demons 169
Chapter 13 The Forms of Dharma 190
Chapter 14 Dharma Behavior 202
Chapter 15 The water offering ceremony of the dead person 208
Chapter 16 The Dimensions of the Road 223
Chapter 17 The Yama Narada Dialogue 260
Chapter 18 The Holy Examination of Dharma 281
Appendix I Additional verses 303
Appendix II The Nasiketa Story Manuscripts 311
Appendix III Methodological Notes 313
Appendix IV Scheme of Transliteration 317
References 319

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