Many Ramayanas "d0e17139"

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Dance, 24 , 50 , 88 n42, 130 ;

in Kerala shadow puppet play, 172 n17;

in Thai culture, 37 , 57

Dante, 141 , 150 , 152 n1

Dasaratha, 88 n47;

in Kampan's Iramavataram , 99 , 107 , 110 ;

in E V Ramasami's exegesis, 183 , 184 , 185 ;

in Tenkalai Srivaisnavism, 206 ;

in Valmiki's Ramayana , 6 , 40 , 94 -95, 113 n28, 122 ;

in women's songs, 122 , 132

Dasaratha Jataka , 17 n11, 52 -53, 54 -55, 59 , 61 n8, 63 n24

Dass, S. C., 199 n31

Demons (raksasas ) Ayomukhi as, 72 ;

and Durga Puja festival, 148 ;

heroized in Dutt's MeghanadavadhaKavya , 11 -12, 15 , 138 , 154 n25;

Surpanakha as, 6 , 10 , 69 , 71 , 74 -77;

Tataka as, 72 , 82 ;

in Tenkalai Srivaisnavism, 207 , 210 ;

Viradha as, 113 n30. See also Meghanada; Ravana; Vibhisana

Desacralization, 181 , 190 -91, 192 , 194 , 196 n12

Desai, Santosh, 33 , 37 , 38

Desika, Vedanta. 203 , 204

Devadatta, 54 , 62 n 17

Dharma, 92 -93, 104 , 105 , 106 , 185 , 206 , 220 , 229

Dharmasastras , 177 , 182 , 184 , 205 , 235

Dhyanmanjari222 , 228

Dialogue: in Adhyatma Ramayana , 156 , in Kampan's Iramavataram , 113 n29, 156 ;

in Kerala shadow puppet play, 156 , 158 -59, 162 , 164 , 166 -68;

in Ramnami chants (bhajans ), 244 -50

Discovery of India (Nehru), 187 , 188

DK (Dravida Kazagham), 178 , 195

DMK (Dravida Munnetra Kazagham), 195

Dohavali, 241

Domestic sphere, 127 -28

Drama. See Performance; Plays

Dravidian movement: antibrahmanical activism in. 175 , 177 -78, 179 ;

anti-Northern doctrine in, 176 , 177 , 178 , 181 , 194 ;

and Buddhism, 189 , 190 ;

and burning of Rama's image, 175 -76, 180 , 194 ;

and censorship, 193 ;

and colonialism, 190 ;

critique of caste in, 176 -78, 179 -80, 189 ;

and education, 178 ;

and film, 195 ;

and Jainism, 189 -90;

and marriage, 178 ;

and primordialism, 198 n16;

and print, 176 , 180 ;

E V Ramasami as leader of, 175 -80, 194 -95;

and revivalism, 198 n16;

rhetoric of, 195 ;

and satirical performance, 193 -94, 198 n22;

in Tamil culture, 175 , 177 -79, 181 , 189 , 194 , 195 ,

and term Dravidian , 196 n2

See also Ramasami, E V, exegesis of Ramayana by

Durga, 67 , 143 , 146 -48

Durga Puja, 143 , 146 -48

Duryodhana, 145 -46

Dusana, 70 , 71 , 72 , 75 , 76 , 77 , 187

Dutt, Michael Madhusudan: Bengali writings of, 140 -42, 152 n1;

and conversion to Christianity, 11 , 139 ;

correspondence of, 137 , 139 , 141 , 149 -50, 152 n1;

education of, 139 -41, 143 n6,

English writings of, 139 -42, 152 n1,

Tilottamasambhava by, 154 n24.