Many Ramayanas |
PREFACE |
A NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION |
PART ONE LARGER PATTERNS |
One Introduction: the Diversity of the Ramayana Tradition |
Two Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on Translation |
Three Ramayana, Rama Jataka, and Ramakien: A Comparative Study of Hindu and Buddhist Traditions |
PART TWO TELLINGS AS REFASHIONING AND OPPOSITION |
Four The Mutilation of Surpanakha |
Five Fire and Flood: The Testing of Sita in Kampan's Iramavataram |
Six A Ramayana of Their Own: Women's Oral Tradition in Telugu |
Seven The Raja's New Clothes: Redressing Ravana in Meghanadavadha Kavya |
• | Eight Creating Conversations: The Rama Story as Puppet Play in Kerala |
PART THREE TELLINGS AS COMMENTARY AND PROGRAMS FOR ACTION |
Nine E. V. Ramasami's Reading of the Ramayana |
• | Roots and Methods of E.V.R.’s Attack on the Ramayana |
• | E. V. Ramasami’s Interpretation of the Ramayana |
• | Precedent and Innovation in E.V.R.’s Interpretation |
• | Conclusions |
Ten Ramayana Exegesis in Tenkalai Srivaisnavism |
Eleven The Secret Life of Ramcandra of Ayodhya |
Twelve Personalizing the Ramayan: Ramnamis and Their Use of the Ramcaritmanas |
Notes |
CONTRIBUTORS |
INDEX |