This book presents a close reading of four Indian narratives from different time periods (epic, Upani¿adic, pre-modern and contemporary): Ekalavya's story from the Mahabharata (MBh 1.123.1-39), the story of Prajapati, Indra and Virocana from the Chandogya Upani¿ad (CU 8.7.1-8.12.5), the story of Säkara in the King's body from the Säkaradigvijaya, and A.R. Murugadoss's Hindi film Ghajini (2008), respectively.

Daniel Raveh is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

Introduction: Stories and Sutras

1. Truth versus Truthfulness in the Mahabharata Story of Ekalavya

2. Is Mok¿a Pleasant? An Alternative Discourse on Freedom in the 8th chapter of the Chandogya-Upani¿ad

3. Shankara in the King's Body: Knowing by Living Through

4. Memory, Forgetting, Self-identity: Philosophical Inscriptions in A.R. Murugadoss' Ghajini