The Potrayal of Rama in Sanskrit Plays, by Manjula SahdevLibrary Artifacts
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This article by Manjula Sahdev is a study of potrayal of Rama in Sanskrit plays, with reference to three episodes—killing of Tataka, purification of Ahalya and the murder of Bali.
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A module on Rāmakathā or the story of Rāma one of the most notable South Asian traditions.
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The epic can be seen as the expression of a certain historical consciousness, even though the events which it describes may not be historically authenticated. The epic form is in origin part of an oral tradition and comes to be ‘frozen’ into a literary form at a date subsequent to that of the oral…
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Social Vision and Historical Perspective in the Mahābhārata and the Vālmīkirāmāyaṇa
India’s age-old fascination with its two great and ancient epic tales of love and war and of the descent of the Godhead in human form to right the evils of the world and to restore the ascendancy of dharma,…
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‘If, like a dvija, I speak Sanskrit, Sītā will think I am Rāvaṇa and be frightened.’[ii]
Thus does Hanumān think aloud in the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa (henceforth VR): Rāvaṇa had disguised himself as a brāhmaṇa and abducted Sītā. Sugrīva’s monkeys had been sent out in all directions to search for her.…
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Ramakatha, Love and Valmiki in South Asian Tradition
Rāmakathā or the story of Rāma is one of the most notable South Asian traditions. As R.P. Goldman and Sally J. Sutherland Goldman have described it, it stands for the collectivity of oral, literary, folk, performative and artistic…
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