Paumacariyam

Displaying 1 - 3 of 3
Kanad Sinha
A module on Rāmakathā or the story of Rāma one of the most notable South Asian traditions.
in Module
Romila Thapar
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…
in Article
Kanad Sinha
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…
in Overview