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J. Patrick Olivelle
Books
Updated July 9, 2008
| In press. | Viṣṇu's Code of Law: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Vaiṣṇava Dharmaśāstra. Delhi: Motilal Barnasidass. 575 pages. | ||
| In press. | (Edited volume) Aśoka In History and Historical Memory. Delhi: Motilal Barnasidass. | ||
| 2008 | Life of the Buddha: Buddhacarita by Aśvaghoṣa. The Clay Sanskrit Library. New York: New York University Press. 597 pages. | ||
| 2007 | Ascetics and Brahmins: Studies in Ideologies and Institutions. Florence: University of Florence Press. 328 pages. | ||
| 2006a | Language, Texts, and Society: Explorations in Ancient Indian Culture and Religion. Florence: University of Florence Press. 420 pages. | ||
| 2006b | (Edited volume) Between the Empires: Society in India 300 BCE to 400 CE. New York: Oxford University Press. 524 pages. | ||
| 2006c | Five Discourses on Worldly Wisdom (Text and Translation of the Pañcatantra). Clay Sanskrit Library. New York: New York University Press. 562 pages. | ||
| 2005a | Dharmasūtra Parallels. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. 230 pages. | ||
| 2005b | Manu's Code of Law: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Mānava-Dharmaśāstra. New York: Oxford University Press. 1131 pages. | ||
| 2004a | (Edited volume) Dharma: Studies in Its Semantic, Cultural, and Religious History. Special double issue of the Journal of Indian Philosophy. Vol. 32, pp. 421-873. | ||
| 2004b | The Law Code of Manu (based on the critical edition). Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 365 pages. | ||
| 2000 | The Dharmasūtras of Āpastamba, Gautama, Baudhāyana, and Vasiṣṭha. Sanskrit editions and annotated translations. In Sources of Indian Law, ed. Patrick Olivelle. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. 783 pages. | ||
| 1999 | Dharmasūtras: The Law Codes of Ancient India (annotated translation of the Dharmasūtras of Āpastamba, Gautama, Baudhāyana, and Vasiṣṭha). Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 480 pages. (Review) | ||
| 1998 | The Early Upaniṣads: Annotated Text and Translation (edition with variants, translation, and notes). South Asia Research Series. New York: Oxford University Press. 700 pages. (Review) | ||
| 1997 | Pañcatantara: The Book of India's Folk Wisdom. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 247 pages. | ||
| * Selections reprinted: Journey Across Time: The Early Ages, edited by Gencoe/McGraw-Hill for use in school in USA and Canada. | |||
| 1996 | The Upaniṣads (annotated translation of 12 early Upaniṣads). Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 504 pages. Extracts published in The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume A: The Ancient World (New York: Pearson/Longman, 2004), pp. 1041-48. | ||
| ** Winner of the A. K. Ramanujan Book Prize for Translation, Association for Asian Studies, 1998. | |||
| * Selections reprinted: India: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Teachers' Guide (Asia Society); Asian Relations (Longman); Religion in India (Routledge); The Longman Anthology of World Literature (Addison Wesley Longman); World Religions Reader (Routledge); Meridians: Sources in World History (Pearson Custom Publishing). | |||
| 1995 | Rules and Regulations of Brahmanical Asceticism (critical edition and translation of Yādava Prakāśa's Yatidharmasamuccaya). Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. 443 pages. | ||
| * Reprint: Sri Garib Dass Oriental Series No. 208. Delhi: Indian Books Centre, 1997. | |||
| 1993 | The Āśrama System: History and Hermeneutics of a Religious Institution. New York: Oxford University Press. 274 pages. | ||
| ** Winner of the American Academy of Religion's Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in the Historical Category, 1994. | |||
| * Reprint: New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 2004. | |||
| 1992 | The Saṃnyāsa Upaniṣads: Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation. New York: Oxford University Press. 320 pages. | ||
| 1987 | Renunciation in Hinduism: A Medieval Debate. Volume II: The Viśiṣṭādvaita Argument. Vienna, Austria: Institute for Indology, University of Vienna. 156 pages. | ||
| 1986a | Saṃnyāsapaddhati of Rudradeva. Critically edited with introduction and notes. Madras, India: The Adyar Library and Research Center. 226 pages. | ||
| 1986b | Renunciation in Hinduism: A Medieval Debate. Volume I: The Debate and The Advaita Argument. Vienna, Austria: Institute for Indology, University of Vienna. 193 pages. | ||
| 1977 | Vāsudevāśrama Yatidharmaprakāśa. A Treatise on World Renunciation. Critically edited with introduction, annotated translation, and appendices. Vienna, Austria: Institute for Indology, University of Vienna. Part II: Annotated English Translation. 231 pages. | ||
| 1976 | Vāsudevāśrama Yatidharmaprakāśa. A Treatise on World Renunciation. Critically edited with introduction, annotated translation, and appendices. Vienna, Austria: Institute for Indology, University of Vienna. Part I: Sanskrit Text. 139 pages. | ||
| 1974 | The Origin and the Early Development of Buddhist Monachism. Colombo, Sri Lanka: M. D. Gunasena. 86 pages. | ||