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...Karine Schomer The Hindi Oral Epic Loriki (The Tale of Loric and Candā) . By Shyam Manohar Pandey . Allahabad : Sahitya Bhavan Pvt. Ltd. , 1979 . 504 pp. Text with Modern Hindi Commentary, Notes, Index of Proper Names, Glossary and Bibliography. N.p. The Hindi Oral Epic Canainī...

...Elmira Köchümkulova The Memorial Feast for Kökötöy Khan: A Kirghiz Epic Poem in the Manas Tradition . Composed in oral performance by Saghïmbay Orozbaq Uulu . Translated by Daniel Prior . London : Penguin Books , 2022 . xxxix, 353 pp. ISBN: 9780241544211 . © 2024 Association...

...Frederick M. Smith This useful volume deserves to be consulted by classicists and scholars of modern Hinduism alike. The impact of the Sanskrit epics on modern India cannot be understated, and these studies assist greatly in our understanding of how this came about. Paolo Magnone writes...

...Aditya Adarkar The Sanskrit Hero: Karn.a in Epic Mahabharata . By Kevin McGrath . Leiden and Boston : Brill , 2004 . xii , 260 pp. $87.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I E W S S O U T H A S I A 783 in depth on the hereditary...

...György Kara The Secret History of the Mongols: A Mongolian Epic Chronicle of the Thirteenth Century . Translated by Igor De Rachewiltz . Brill's Inner Asian Library, no. 7/1–2. 2 vols. Leiden and Boston : Brill , 2004 . cxxvi , 1347 pp. £179 (cloth). Copyright © Association...

...William S. Sax Raja Nal and the Goddess: The North Indian Epic Dhola in Performance . By Susan Snow Wadley . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 2004 . xiii , 242 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 B O O K R E V I E W S...

...Ruth-Inge Heinze The Tale of the Nisǎn Shamaness: A Manchu Folk Epic . Introduced and interpreted by Margaret Nowak . Translated and transcribed by Stephen Durrant . Seattle and London : University of Washington Press (Publications on Asia of the Institute for Comparative and Foreign Area...

...John Ross Carter The Perfect Generosity of Prince Vessantara: A Buddhist Epic . Translated from the Pali and illustrated by unpublished paintings from Sinhalese temples by Margaret Cone and Richard F. Gombrich . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1977 . xlvii, 111 pp. Illustrations...

... technique of versification, the poems serve to heighten both scenic situations and character developments. The narrative effect thus achieved may best be appreciated when it is compared with epic songs and heroic sagas of other cultures. Another means with which the novel is endowed with epic magnitude...

...Padmanabh S. Jaini Sanskrit Plays from Epic Sources . By H. W. Wells . Baroda, India : University of Baroda Press , 1968 . xi, 258 pp. £ 3.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 BOOK REVIEWS 469 nasals. The principle of biuniqueness is not followed, [n...

...Richard Salomon Purānic Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purānic Literature . By Vettam Mani . Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass , 1975 . viii, 922 pp. Rs. 325.00 (Dist. by South Asia Books, $52.50) Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Sameetah Agha British Death March under Asiatic Impulse: Epic of Anglo-Indian Tragedy in Afghanistan . By Yash Nandan “Kaviraj.” Mumbai : Bhavan's Book University , 2003 . 245 pp. Rs 280 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R E V I E W S I N N E...

...Susan Rodgers The Guritan of Radin Suane: A Study of the Besemah Oral Epic from South Sumatra . By William A. Collins . Leiden : KITLV Press , 1998 . 548 pp. $65.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 1003 clothing...

...James I. Matray Dien Bien Phu: The Epic Battle America Forgot . By Howard R. Simpson . Washington, D.C. : Brassey's Inc. , 1994 . xxv, 193 pp. $24.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 907 markers of their ethnic marginality...

...David C. Buck The Cilappatikaram of llanko Atikal: An Epic of South India . Translated by R. Parthasarathy . New York : Columbia University Press , 1993 . xix, 419 pp $17.50 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 1142 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Richard H. Davis The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India . Volume III: Araṇyakāṇḍa . Introduction, translation, and annotation by Sheldon I. Pollock . Edited by Robert P. Goldman . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1991 . viii, 394 pp. $65.00. Copyright ©...

...Robert J. Del Bontà Epic Narratives in the Hoysaḷa Temples: The Rāmāyaṇa, Mahābhārata and Bhāgavata Purāṇa in Haḷebīd, Belūr and Amṛtapura . By Kirsti Evans . Studies in the History of Religions ( Numen Book Series). Edited by H. G. Kippenberg and E. T. Lawson . Volume LXXIV. Leiden...

...Ann Grodzins Gold The Epic of Pābūjī: A Study, Transcription, and Translation . By John D. Smith . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1991 . xiii, 513 pp. $69.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 967 this experience...

...Lena Henningsen Transforming Monkey: Adaptation and Representation of a Chinese Epic . By Hongmei Sun . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2018 . ix, 219 pp. ISBN: 9780295743196 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

... it was invested with a special authority for the culture at large. In my study of the sources and transmission of one small part of this mythology, the matter of Wu Tzu-hsii, I conclude that in the period down to the Former Han regional epics and hero stories were important vehicles for the transmission of Wu Tzu...