Preferred Citation: Richman, Paula, editor. Many Ramayanas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1991 1991. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft3j49n8h7/

 

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Education, 117 , 139 , 153 n6, 178 , 217

Egalitarlanism, 16 , 179 , 181 , 189 , 203 , 204

Emerald Buddha, 57 -59, 63 nn29, 31

Emperumanar, Arulala Perumal, 207

Endogamy, 115 , 178

English language, 139 -42, 153 n12, 180 , 218

Epic genre, 24 , 68 , 92 , 102 , 138 ;

folk adaptation of, 158 , 164 -66, 171 n9

Erelupatu , 111 n5

Erndl, Kathleen, 10 -11

Eroticism, 82 -83, 143 , 217 -18;

and rasik tradition, 218 , 220 , 223 , 224 , 225 , 230 , 231 ;

and tantrism, 221

Etymology, folk, 36

 

Preferred Citation: Richman, Paula, editor. Many Ramayanas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1991 1991. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft3j49n8h7/