... of 60 the divine - albeit at times troublesome, misguided, branded demon-monster like Ravana? Some curious vi- even irreverent and irrelevant - could well be pointers sion, it seems, moved the Jaina poet and he set about to to the further horizons to which “revelation” just might do just...

... does not, however, have any bearing on what In the Ramayana the problem arises when may or may not be the epic nature of the plot of Vibhishana, the brother of Rama’s archenemy the Sira, to which I now turn. Ravana, changes sides and seeks...

... of the golden deer, leading to the futile chase by the dargah of Ibrahim, who may have been some sort of first Rama and then Lakshmana, and Sita’s kidnapping founder-pir of the settlement. The enamel work is de- by Ravana to Lanka. The figure of Hanuman is now scribed as being done as wax was melted...

..., the Dronparv , in 1670 on an important day for Vaishnavas: Vijayadashami, the day Rama killed the demon Ravana. But instead of praising Aurangzeb, Chauhan extolls a king by the name of Mitrasen. Chauhan explains that he composed the Dronparv “in the best city that was protected and made beautiful...

...-nationalist view of the pacific Sufi is by the captive by her oppressive father, much as Sita had President of the Indian Union, Shankar Dayal been held by the Sinhala King Ravana. Jayasi not Sharma, who recently declared Sufis as strengthening only presents Padmavati as a second Sita,6...

... with- the demon Ravana. This latter effort proved out seeing that this freedom to deconstruct is more successful, and today “the Ramayana was a heavy-handed Western, politically inspired, slowly becoming the central book of Hinduism” definitional play...

.... While the Tamils B.C. mention the Naga kingdoms and their conquest are "the lineal descendants of the original inhabitants of the by Ravana, the Tamil Yaksha King of Sri Lanka island", the Sinhalese lack pedigree, "no matter what the (Ponnambalam, 1983:17...

... out of four words are Per- Prgane Sarirabad sian. He then goes on to assimilate the story of Adam Kille Kayapuri Sarkar Sahebanci ajna gheun svar jahlon and Eve with that of Rama and Sita, Ravana being iden- Ton pargane mazkuri yeun sarkar kam suru karavayas laglo tified with Satan.27...

... is theirs to make or mar, and they can no James Vernon, Padma Visvanathan, Philip Wagoner, Anand longer say ‘what care we if Rama rules or Ravana Yang, Lynn Zastoupil, and Darren Zook. rules Subramaniam felt that the relationship between 2Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff, Of Revelation...

... was opposed to all of high-caste Hindu women: child marriage, training and forms of forced submission of women to men. One can see employment for widows, female education, and social now why a Sita who withstood Ravana’s advances or went skills necessary to participate in a changing world...