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Instructions for Kings: Secular and Clerical Images of Kingship in Early Ireland and Ancient India

This monograph develops an extensive argument comparing early Irish and Indian concepts of kingship. Critical insights put forward in the book are the culmination of thirteen years of analysis of a considerable body of texts of a highly complex nature, coupled with an in-depth assessment of c. 300 studies from 19th and 20th century scholarship. In order to support the argument presented in chapters 2-5, the author prepared new editions of medieval Irish texts, having collated c. 20 manuscripts from 5 libraries. Similarly, the discussion in chapters 7 and 8 is based upon new translations made by the author of extensive and challenging Sanskrit, Prākrit and Pāli texts.