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Laksmana. in Adhyatma Ramayana , 75 -76;

in Buddhism, 61 n15;

in Dutt's Meghanadavadha Kavya , 137 -38, 142 , 145 , 146 , 154 n25;

in Hindi folktale, 22 -23;

as incarnation of Sesa, 75 ;

in Jainism, 34 -35, in Kampan's Iramavataram , 73 -75, 89 , 163 ;

Laksmana (continued )

in Kerala shadow puppet play, 163 -64, 168 ;

in Krttivasa's Ramayana , 137 , 154 n25;

Meghanada slain by, 137 , 142 , 146 , 154 n25;

in modern poetry, 81 ;

in Phra Lak/Phra Lam , 62 n15;

in RadhesyamRamayan , 78 -81;

in Ramakien , 38 ;

in E. V. Ramasami's exegesis, 182 , 183 , 184 , 186 ;

and Ramnami sect, 242 ;

in Santali tradition, 44 ;

Surpanakha mutilated by, 6 , 10 , 12 , 67 -84 passim, 186 ;

in Tulsidas's Ramcaritmanas , 77 , 242 ;

in Valmiki's Ramayana , 6 , 70 -71, 82 , 91 -92, 94 ;

in women's songs, 118 , 120 , 123 , 124 --27, 130 , 131 , 132 , 136 n14

Laksmi, 120 , 122 , 147 ;

festival of, 84 ;

Sita as incarnation of, 75 , 84 , 93 , 94 , 99 , 104 , 121

Lamb, Ramdas, 13

LankavataraSutra , 190

Laos, 24 , 33 , 37 ;

Buddhism in, 53 -54, 58 , 61 n13;

Phra Lak/Phra Lam in, 53 -54, 62 nn15-17, 63 n24;

Sanskrit in, 61 n15

Latin, 140 , 141 , 153 n12

Lava: in RadhesyamRamayan , 80 ;

in Valmiki's Ramayana , 7 , 94 ;

in women's songs, 118 , 123 , 129 , 130 , 131 , 136 n19

The Laws of Manu , 177 , 182

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 68

Lila , 76 , 78 , 88 n43, 148 , 153 n20, 218 , 236 ;

in Ramnami sect, 249 -50;

in rasik tradition, 219 , 220 , 222 , 224 -27

Literacy, 16 , 116 , 240 , 246 -47, 250 , 253 n14

Lokacarya, Pillai, 203 , 205 , 206 , 207 , 209 , 210

Love poetry, 101 -2, 109 -10, 112 n20

Lutgendorf, Philip, 3 -4, 13 , 14 , 16 , 17 n8, 238