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Many Ramayanas

Author : Paula Richman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 052091175X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Many Ramayanas written by Paula Richman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout Indian history, many authors and performers have produced, and many patrons have supported, diverse tellings of the story of the exiled prince Rama, who rescues his abducted wife by battling the demon king who has imprisoned her. The contributors to this volume focus on these "many" Ramayanas. While most scholars continue to rely on Valmiki's Sanskrit Ramayana as the authoritative version of the tale, the contributors to this volume do not. Their essays demonstrate the multivocal nature of the Ramayana by highlighting its variations according to historical period, political context, regional literary tradition, religious affiliation, intended audience, and genre. Socially marginal groups in Indian society—Telugu women, for example, or Untouchables from Madhya Pradesh—have recast the Rama story to reflect their own views of the world, while in other hands the epic has become the basis for teachings about spiritual liberation or the demand for political separatism. Historians of religion, scholars of South Asia, folklorists, cultural anthropologists—all will find here refreshing perspectives on this tale.

Many Ramayanas

Author : Paula Richman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520075894
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Many Ramayanas written by Paula Richman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991-08-29 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout Indian history, many authors and performers have produced, and many patrons have supported, diverse tellings of the story of the exiled prince Rama, who rescues his abducted wife by battling the demon king who has imprisoned her. The contributors to this volume focus on these "many" Ramayanas. While most scholars continue to rely on Valmiki's Sanskrit Ramayana as the authoritative version of the tale, the contributors to this volume do not. Their essays demonstrate the multivocal nature of the Ramayana by highlighting its variations according to historical period, political context, regional literary tradition, religious affiliation, intended audience, and genre. Socially marginal groups in Indian society—Telugu women, for example, or Untouchables from Madhya Pradesh—have recast the Rama story to reflect their own views of the world, while in other hands the epic has become the basis for teachings about spiritual liberation or the demand for political separatism. Historians of religion, scholars of South Asia, folklorists, cultural anthropologists—all will find here refreshing perspectives on this tale.

Questioning Ramayanas

Author : Paula Richman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520220744
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Questioning Ramayanas written by Paula Richman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging examination of the many different versions of India's greatest epic, the Ramayana, focusing on versions that subvert the dominant readings of the work.

Many Rāmāyaṇas

Author : Paula Richman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520072817
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Many Rāmāyaṇas written by Paula Richman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout Indian history, many authors and performers have produced, and many patrons have supported, diverse tellings of the story of the exiled prince Rama, who rescues his abducted wife by battling the demon king who has imprisoned her. The contributors to this volume focus on these "many" Ramayanas. While most scholars continue to rely on Valmiki's Sanskrit Ramayana as the authoritative version of the tale, the contributors to this volume do not. Their essays demonstrate the multivocal nature of the Ramayana by highlighting its variations according to historical period, political context, regional literary tradition, religious affiliation, intended audience, and genre. Socially marginal groups in Indian society--Telugu women, for example, or Untouchables from Madhya Pradesh--have recast the Rama story to reflect their own views of the world, while in other hands the epic has become the basis for teachings about spiritual liberation or the demand for political separatism. Historians of religion, scholars of South Asia, folklorists, cultural anthropologists--all will find here refreshing perspectives on this tale. Throughout Indian history, many authors and performers have produced, and many patrons have supported, diverse tellings of the story of the exiled prince Rama, who rescues his abducted wife by battling the demon king who has imprisoned her. The contributors to this volume focus on these "many" Ramayanas. While most scholars continue to rely on Valmiki's Sanskrit Ramayana as the authoritative version of the tale, the contributors to this volume do not. Their essays demonstrate the multivocal nature of the Ramayana by highlighting its variations according to historical period, political context, regional literary tradition, religious affiliation, intended audience, and genre. Socially marginal groups in Indian society--Telugu women, for example, or Untouchables from Madhya Pradesh--have recast the Rama story to reflect their own views of the world, while in other hands the epic has become the basis for teachings about spiritual liberation or the demand for political separatism. Historians of religion, scholars of South Asia, folklorists, cultural anthropologists--all will find here refreshing perspectives on this tale.

The Multivalence of an Epic

Author : Parul Pandya Dhar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000991962
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Multivalence of an Epic written by Parul Pandya Dhar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-06 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines The Rāmāyaṇa traditions of South India and Southeast Asia. Bringing together 19 well-known scholars in Rāmāyaṇa studies from Cambodia, Canada, France, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, UK, and USA, this thought-provoking and elegantly illustrated volume engages with the inherent plurality, diversity, and adaptability of the Rāmāyaṇa in changing socio-political, religious, and cultural contexts. The journey and localization of the Rāmāyaṇa is explored in its manifold expressions – from classical to folk, from temples and palaces to theatres and by-lanes in cities and villages, and from ancient to modern times. Regional Rāmāyaṇas from different parts of South India and Southeast Asia are placed in deliberate juxtaposition to enable a historically informed discussion of their connected pasts across land and seas. The three parts of this volume, organized as visual, literary, and performance cultures, discuss the sculpted, painted, inscribed, written, recited, and performed Rāmāyaṇas. A related emphasis is on the way boundaries of medium and genre have been crossed in the visual, literary, and performed representations of the Rāmāyaṇa. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)

Ramayana Stories in Modern South India

Author : Paula Richman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253219531
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Ramayana Stories in Modern South India written by Paula Richman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh perspectives on the classic Indiana epic.

Valmiki's Ramayana

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538113694
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Valmiki's Ramayana written by and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of India’s greatest epics, the Ramayana pervades the country’s moral and cultural consciousness. For generations it has served as a bedtime story for Indian children, while at the same time engaging the interest of philosophers and theologians. Believed to have been composed by Valmiki sometime between the eighth and sixth centuries BCE, the Ramayana tells the tragic and magical story of Rama, the prince of Ayodhya, an incarnation of Lord Visnu, born to rid the earth of the terrible demon Ravana. An idealized heroic tale ending with the inevitable triumph of good over evil, the Ramayana is also an intensely personal story of family relationships, love and loss, duty and honor, of harem intrigue, petty jealousies, and destructive ambitions. All this played out in a universe populated by larger-than-life humans, gods and celestial beings, wondrous animals and terrifying demons. With her magnificent translation and superb introduction, Arshia Sattar has successfully bridged both time and space to bring this ancient classic to modern English readers.

Sita's Ramayana

Author : Samhita Arni
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781554981458
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Sita's Ramayana written by Samhita Arni and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ramayana is an epic poem by the Hindu sage Valmiki, written in ancient Sanskrit sometime after 300 BC. It is an allegorical story that contains important Hindu teachings, and it has had great influence on Indian life and culture over the centuries. Children are often encouraged to emulate the virtues of the two main characters -- Rama and Sita. The Ramayana is frequently performed as theater or dance, and two Indian festivals -- Dussehra and Divali -- celebrate events in the story. This version of The Ramayana is told from the perspective of Sita, the queen. After she, her husband Rama and his brother are exiled from their kingdom, Sita is captured by the proud and arrogant king Ravana and imprisoned in a garden across the ocean. Ravana never stops trying to convince Sita to be his wife, but she steadfastly refuses his advances. Eventually Rama comes to her rescue with the help of the monkey Hanuman and his army. But Rama feels he can't trust Sita again. He forces Sita to undergo an ordeal by fire to prove herself to be true and pure. She is shocked and in grief and anger does so. She emerges unscathed and they return home to their kingdom as king and queen. However, suspicion haunts their relationship, and Sita once more finds herself in the forest, but this time she is pregnant. She has twins and continues to live in the forest with them. The story is exciting and dramatic, with many turns of plot. Magic animals, snakes, divine gods, demons, sorcerers and a vast cast of characters all play a part in the fierce battles fought to win Sita back. And in the process the story explores ideas of right vs. wrong, compassion, loyalty, trust, honor and the terrible price of war.

Kamba Ramayana

Author : P S Sundaram
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351181006
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Kamba Ramayana written by P S Sundaram and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2002-05-03 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterly translation of the Tamil version of Ramayana The epic story of Rama, which is part of the Indian collective consciousness, has been retold in many regional languages. Pre-eminent among the many vernacular retellings of the Ramayana is the twelfth-century Tamil version by Kamban. The son of a temple drummer, Kamban is reputed to have had an impressive mastery of Tamil and Sanskrit classics. Fascinated by the lore of Ramayana, he immersed himself totally in it. Though Kamban acknowledges his indebtedness to the Sanskrit version of the Ramayana by Valmiki, his is an independent work, enriched by various religious, philosophical and literary influences. The Kamba Ramayana differs from Valmiki’s in significant ways. Though cast in the heroic mould of a Purushotama or ‘the best among men’, Valmiki’s Rama is still a man. Kamban, on the other hand, never allows the reader to forget the godhood of Rama. His Ravana too, though flawed, is a heroic figure. While Valmiki’s diction is sparse and direct, Kamban’s exuberant prose sparkles with wit and inventiveness. Translated into English by the late P.S. Sundaram, this edition has been abridged and edited by his long-time friend N.S. Jagannathan. Though pared down from the original six volumes to a single one, this translation retains the magic and poetry of the original.

Performing the Ramayana Tradition

Author : Paula Richman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197552536
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Performing the Ramayana Tradition written by Paula Richman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ramayana, one of the two pre-eminent Hindu epics, has played a foundational role in many aspects of India's arts and social norms. For centuries, people learned this narrative by watching, listening, and participating in enactments of it. Although the Ramayana's first extant telling in Sanskrit dates back to ancient times, the story has continued to be retold and rethought through the centuries in many of India's regional languages, such as Hindi, Tamil, and Bengali. The narrative has provided the basis for enactments of its episodes in recitation, musical renditions, dance, and avant-garde performances. This volume introduces non-specialists to the Ramayana's major themes and complexities, as well as to the highly nuanced terms in Indian languages used to represent theater and performance. Two introductions orient readers to the history of Ramayana texts by Tulsidas, Valmiki, Kamban, Sankaradeva, and others, as well as to the dramaturgy and aesthetics of their enactments. The contributed essays provide context-specific analyses of diverse Ramayana performance traditions and the narratives from which they draw. The essays are clustered around the shared themes of the politics of caste and gender; the representation of the anti-hero; contemporary re-interpretations of traditional narratives; and the presence of Ramayana discourse in daily life.

Living Ramayanas

Author : Asīs Taruvaṇa
Publisher : Eka
ISBN 13 : 9789390679737
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Living Ramayanas written by Asīs Taruvaṇa and published by Eka. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ancient Non-Greek Rhetorics

Author : Carol S. Lipson
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1602356777
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Non-Greek Rhetorics written by Carol S. Lipson and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-04-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Non-Greek Rhetorics contributes to the recovery and understanding of ancient rhetorics in non-Western cultures and other cultures that developed independently of classical Greco-Roman models. Contributors analyze facets of the rhetorics as embedded within the particular cultures of ancient China, Egypt, Mesopotamia, the ancient Near East more generally, Israel, Japan, India, and ancient Ireland.

The Slaying of Meghanada

Author : Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195167996
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book The Slaying of Meghanada written by Michael Madhusudan Dutt and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2004 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Datte's deft intermingling of western and eastern literary traditions brought about a sea change in South Asian literature. His masterpiece is now accessible to readers of English in this translation, complete with introduction, notes and a glossary.

Grandeur And Narratives In The Great Indian Epics- The Ramayana And The Mahabharata

Author : Samiran Kumar Paul
Publisher : BFC Publications
ISBN 13 : 9357649182
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (576 download)

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Download or read book Grandeur And Narratives In The Great Indian Epics- The Ramayana And The Mahabharata written by Samiran Kumar Paul and published by BFC Publications. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will help the Indian and the foreign students to learn about Indian Classical studies in poetry and narrative art. A comparison between these two epics throw light on myths, exile and narratives. In India a recent trend of growing Hinduism is noticed in while studying Hindu scriptures of mahakvyas and the Puranas. This study of epics in English will attract the Indologists of the world.

The Ramayana Revisited

Author : Mandakranta Bose
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019516833X
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book The Ramayana Revisited written by Mandakranta Bose and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 14 leading 'Ramayana' scholars examine the epic in its myriad contexts throughout South and Southeast Asia. They explore the role the narrative plays in societies as varied as India Indonesia, Thailand and Cambodia. The essays also expand the understanding of the 'text' to include non-verbal renditions of the epic.

Banishment and Belonging

Author : Ronit Ricci
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108480276
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Banishment and Belonging written by Ronit Ricci and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-breaking exploration of exile and diaspora as they relate to place, language, religious tradition, literature and the imagination.

The Ramayana

Author : Linda Egenes, M.A.
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101993057
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Ramayana written by Linda Egenes, M.A. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightfully straightforward and lyrical retelling of the ancient Indian epic of loyalty, betrayal, redemption, and insight into the true nature of life -- one of history's most sacred ethical works, rendered with completeness and sterling accuracy for the modern reader. Here is one of the world's most hallowed works of sacred literature, the grand, sweeping epic of the divine bowman and warrior Rama and his struggles with evil, power, duplicity, and avarice. The Ramayana is one of the foundations of world literature and one of humanity's most ancient and treasured ethical and spiritual works. Includes an introduction by scholar Michael Sternfeld.