@inbook{f4d10745168c4c0790b6c395e2f1401e,
title = "Karman, Prāya{\'s}citta, and Disease: A Reading of the Karmavipāka Digression in Mādhavācārya{\textquoteright}s Parā{\'s}aramādhavīya",
abstract = "Compared to the ancient Vedic and Buddhist texts on the possibility of averting negative karman the discussions of karmavipāka in Mādhava{\textquoteright}s work have moved far away. Not only is it possible to prevent the negative karman that has not yet started to work but even parts of the prārabdhakarman that manifests in people{\textquoteright}s present life in the form of disease can be averted. By being open to the possibility of using penance also in case of present disease, Mādhava{\textquoteright}s discussion is an example of a late development. As such it is an example showing that the process of dharma{\'s}āstra is not as static and conservative as it is often presented, but rather – within in its own idiom – an ongoing dynamic process of adaptations and change.",
keywords = "Disease, Karman, Prāya{\'s}citta, Parā{\'s}aramādhavīya",
author = "Mikael Aktor",
year = "2020",
month = oct,
day = "15",
doi = "10.1163/9789004438224_010",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-90-04-43669-5",
series = "Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Studies",
publisher = "Brill",
pages = "166--183",
editor = "Knudsen, {Toke Lindegaard} and Jacob Schmidt-Madsen and Sara Speyer",
booktitle = "Body and Cosmos",
}