Ramayana Traditions In Eastern India

Author : William L. Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rāmāyaṇa Traditions in Eastern India written by William L. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: Through the structure of the popular Ramayanas composed in Assamese, Bengali and Oriya based on the version of Valmiki, the poets are eclectic in their choice of material and freely select episodes from the Puranas, Sanskrit devotional Ramayanas, Sakta works and the oral tradition, as long as these are not in direct conflict with Valmiki. Unlike vernacular Ramayanas in some other regions of India, here poets do not allow the narrative to be overwhelmed by theological or sectarian concerns. Many apocryphal episodes common to all three literatures do not seem to be found outside Eastern India.

Author : University of Calcutta. Department of Modern Indian Languages
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Ramayana in Eastern India written by University of Calcutta. Department of Modern Indian Languages and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bijoya Baruah
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783846544662
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oral Ramayani Tradition of Eastern India written by Bijoya Baruah and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ramayana tradition of India with a long and strong background has played a significant role on life and society. The present book is primarily a comparative analytical study of the oral Ramayana traditions of Eastern India i.e. Assam, Bengal and Orissa. Its aim and objectives are to explore inter-related, well documented and systematic study of genres based on Rama-katha which are transmited orally first and gradually entered to the written traditions. In India Rama is not only religious idols for the people or the Ramayana is not simply an epic of religious verses, it is a part of human experiences, not separable from other modes of experiences. Fundamental human needs lie beneath this masterpieces of religious literary work for which Rama-katha diffused in the folk society long before its written literary form. That is why the oral traditions of Rama-katha has been current in the folk society from times immemorial. It exerted impact on the life of individual as well as of society

Author : Aaron Sherraden
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1839984716
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Śambūka and the Rāmāyaṇa Tradition written by Aaron Sherraden and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Vālmīki’s Sanskrit Rāmāyaṇa (early centuries CE), Śambūka was practicing severe acts of austerity to enter heaven. In engaging in these acts as a Śūdra, Śambūka was in violation of class- and caste-based societal norms prescribed exclusively by the ruling and religious elite. Rāma, the hero of the Rāmāyaṇa epic, is dispatched to kill Śambūka, whose transgression is said to be the cause of a young Brahmin’s death. The gods rejoice upon the Śūdra’s death and restore the life of the Brahmin. Subsequent Rāmāyaṇa poets almost instantly recognized this incident as a blemish on Rāma’s character and they began problematizing this earliest version of the story. They adjusted and updated the story to suit the expectations of their audiences. The works surveyed in this study include numerous works originating in Hindu, Jain, Dalit and non-Brahmin communities while spanning the period from Śambūka’s first appearance in the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa through to the present day. The book follows the Śambūka episode chronologically across its entire history—approximately two millennia—to illuminate the social, religious, legal, and artistic connections that span the entire range of the Rāmāyaṇa’s influence and its place throughout various phases of Indian history and social revolution.

Author : Paula Richman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197552536
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( 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.

Author : Paula Richman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253219531
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( 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.

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691173982
Total Pages : 1674 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India, Volume VI written by and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 1674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth book of the Ramayana of Valmiki, the Yuddhakanda, recounts the final dramatic war between the forces of good led by the exiled prince Rama, and the forces of evil commanded by the arch demon Ravana. The hero Rama's primary purpose in the battle is to rescue the abducted princess Sita and destroy the demon king. However, the confrontation also marks the turning point for the divine mission of the Ramavatara, the incarnation of Lord Visnu as a human prince, who will restore righteousness to a world on the brink of chaos. The book ends with the gods' revelation to Rama of his true divine nature, his emotional reunion with his beloved wife, his long-delayed consecration as king of Kosala, and his restoration of a utopian age. The Yuddhakanda contains some of the most extraordinary events and larger-than-life characters to be found anywhere in world literature. This sixth volume in the critical edition and translation of the Valmiki Ramayana includes an extensive introduction, exhaustive notes, and a comprehensive bibliography.

Author : Mandakranta Bose
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789385285554
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rāmāyana in Bengali Folk Paintings written by Mandakranta Bose and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The images presented in this book take us into the heart of the rich folk tradition of India. Of that heritage, the display of paintings accompanied by comments recited or sung has been a part of since very early times, as attested by references and legends in Sanskrit sources, including the Harsacarita, a 7th century work by Banabhatta. Known as patacitras or patas in short, these illustrated narratives on rectangular fabric or paper as well as on scrolls are a type of performed art that reaches out to audiences, mostly rural, conveying the artists' responses to legends and social themes of common knowledge across a wide range of audiences from varied social and cultural bases. A particularly powerful class of such paintings that come from the Bengali-speaking region of eastern India comprise the depiction of events from the Ramayana in the form of scrolls that are unrolled as the painter displays and explicates them. The vividly colourful images presented in this book occupy a special niche in the history of Indian art, remarkable because they are not only visual objects but narrative expositions of a text that has been part of vast numbers of the Indian people and often their source of moral guidance. Especially remarkable is that these patas by Bengali folk painters diverge so often from the magisterial Ramayanas of adikavi "First Poet" Valmiki, leave out important parts of it and import into the Rama saga episodes from local narrative caches.

Author : Mandakranta Bose
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rāmāyaṇa Culture written by Mandakranta Bose and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essays In This Volume Approach The Ramayana From Different Perspectives Textual Criticism, Art And Architecture, And Film To Understand Its Ideological And Aesthetic Meanings. They Address Critical Issues Like The Seminal Status Of Valmiki, Gender Representation In Ramayana And The Importance Of The So-Called Ramayana Derivatives.

Author : Peter Scharf
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113684662X
Total Pages : 966 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ramopakhyana - The Story of Rama in the Mahabharata written by Peter Scharf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most popular story in all of India and a classic of world literature is summarised in 728 verses in the great epic Mahabharata. Intended for independent study or classroom use for students of various levels who have had a basic introduction to Sanskrit, this fully annotated edition of the Ramopakhyana supplies all the information required for complete comprehension. It contains the Devanagari text, Roman transliteration, sandhi analysis, Sanskrit prose equivalents to the verses, syntactic and cultural notes, and the English translation, and word-by-word grammatical analysis.