Bibliography on Gambling (and dice games
in particular)
Compiled by Robin Rinehart
Paul Bowlby (1991). Kings without authority: the obligation
of the ruler to gamble in the Mahabharata’. Studies in Religion /
Sciences Religieuses 20, pp. 3-17.
Harry Falk, Bruderschaft und Wurfelspiel:
Untersuchungen zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des vedischen Opfers.
Freiburg: Hedwig Falk.1986.
Luis González-Reimann (2002) 'The Mahabharata and the
yugas: India's great epic poem and the Hindu system of world ages'. New
York: Peter Lang.
Handelman and Shulman, God Inside Out: Siva's Game of
Dice (Oxford UP 1997)
James Laidlaw. Riches and Renunciation: Religion,
Economy, and Society among the Jains (Oxford UP 1995)
David Shulman (1992) Devana and daiva’. A. W. van den Hoek,
D. H. A. Kolff and M. S. Oort (eds), 'Ritual, state and history in south
Asia: essays in honour of J. C. Heesterman', pp. 350-365. Leiden: Brill.
J. A. B. van Buitenen (1972) On the structure of the
Sabhaparvan of the Mahabharata’. J. Ensink and P. Gäffke (eds),
'India Maior: congratulatory volume presented to Jan Gonda', pp. 68-84.
Reprinted in van Buitenen (1988, ed. Ludo Rocher), Studies in Indian
literature and philosophy: collected articles of J. A. B. van Buitenen,
pp. 305-321. [NB. For a critique of van Buitenen's thesis, see Renate
Sohnen-Thieme(1999) 'On the composition of the Dyutaparvan of the
Mahabharata'. Mary Brockington and Peter Schreiner (eds), 'Composing a
tradition: concepts, techniques and relationships. Proceedings of the
First Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and
Puranas', pp. 139-154. Zagreb: Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.]
David Gordon White (1989). Dogs die. History of Religions
28, pp. 282-303.
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