[INDOLOGY] Texts on War Ethics?

[Nataliya Yanchevskaya]

Dear All,
Thank you for your responses both on- and off-list!
I will look into various niti- texts and the suggested secondary
literature– I am sure it will be very useful.
Best wishes,
Nataliya

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Nataliya Yanchevskaya
Lecturer in Sanskrit
PIIRS, Princeton University

On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 12:26 PM Camillo Formigatti via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear Nataliya,
>
> Another interesting study on the topic might be Wu, Juan. 2015. "Comparing
> Buddhist and Jaina Attitudes towards Warfare: Some Notes on Stories of King
> Ajātaśatru's/Kūṇika's War against the Vṛjis and Related Material", ARIRIAB,
> Vol.18, pp. 95-112
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> Best wishes,
>
> Camillo
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> *From:* Donald R Davis <drdj at austin.utexas.edu>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 22, 2020 3:01 PM
> *To:* Indology Mailing List <indology at list.indology.info>
> *Subject:* Re: [INDOLOGY] Texts on War Ethics?
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> Dear Nataliya,
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> Please see the work of Torkel Brekke. You can see many of his extensive
> publications on the ethics of war at his academia page:
> https://independent.academia.edu/TorkelBrekke.
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> Best, Don
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> *From: *INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> on behalf of "
> indology at list.indology.info" <indology at list.indology.info>
> *Reply-To: *"Jan E.M. Houben" <jemhouben at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Wednesday, July 22, 2020 at 1:52 AM
> *To: *Nataliya Yanchevskaya <markandeia at gmail.com>
> *Cc: *"indology at list.indology.info" <indology at list.indology.info>
> *Subject: *Re: [INDOLOGY] Texts on War Ethics?
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> Dear Nataliya,
>
> You may have a look at
>
> *Violence Denied: Violence, Non-Violence and the Rationalization of
> Violence in South Asian Cultural History*, eds.: J.E.M. Houben and K.R.
> van Kooij. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1999.
>
> Especially the chapters by L. Schmithausen (on Buddhist attitudes towards
> war) and D. Feller (on the Mahabharata war as a sacrifice) deal explicitly
> with ethical aspects of war.
>
> Best,
>
> Jan
>
>
>
> On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 at 08:23, Nataliya Yanchevskaya via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> Could you please suggest any Sanskrit texts that specifically deal with
> war ethics? Apart from the Bhagavad Gita and the epics (the MBh, first of
> all), there are some bits and pieces in the Arthaśāstra and Dharmaśāstras
> that I know about.
>
> Are there any "theoretical" works on war ethics? on laws of war and rules
> for warriors?
>
> All suggestions would be very welcome.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Nataliya
>
>
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> Nataliya Yanchevskaya
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> Lecturer in Sanskrit
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> PIIRS, Princeton University
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