...F. R. Allchin Le lac spirituel . By Charlotte Vaudeville . Paris : Adrien-Maisonneuve , 1955 . xxix , 157 . Table des matières. Étude sur les sources et la composition du Rāmāyana de Tulsī-Dās . By Charlotte Vaudeville . Paris : Adrien-Maisonneuve , 1955 . xxiii , 337...

...Donald K. Emmerson The Ramayana and the Malay Shadow-Play . By P. L. Amin Sweeney . Kuala Lumpur : The National University of Malaysia Press , 1972 . xiii, 464 pp. Illustrations, Tables, Glossary, Works Cited, Index. $15.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975...

...Abhijeet Paul The Slaying of Meghanada: A Ramayana from Colonial Bengal . By Michael Madhusudan Datta . Translanted by Clinton B. Seely New York : Oxford University Press , 2004 . xii , 270 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R E V I...

...Indira Shetterly Ramayana . By William Buck . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1976 . xxxi, 432 pp. Illustrations. $14.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1979 1979 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 387 "correlations are primarily on an areal rather than...

...Santosh N. Desai Abstract This paper examines the role of the Hindu Epic Rāmāyaṇa in the historical and cultural contact between India and the rest of Asia. The Rama legend—rather legends—are prevalent in almost all countries of Asia, namely China, Tibet, East Turkestan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaya...

...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...

...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 ©...

...Ajay Rao The Rāmāyana Revisited . Edited by Mandakranta Bose . New York : Oxford University Press , 2004 . xvii , 378 pp. $35 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 838 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S modern, not at all hangovers from...

...Robert P. Goldman Rāma and the Bards: Epic Memory in the Rāmāyaṇa . By Robert Antoine . Calcutta : A Writer's Workshop Greybird Book , 1975 . 114 pp. Rs. 40.00 (cloth); Rs. 15.00 (paper). (Dist. by InterCulture Associates: $8.00 [cloth]; $5.00 [paper]). Copyright © The Association...

...Edwin Gerow 424 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES The Ramayana of Valmiki: An Epic of Ancient India. Vol. 1: Baiakanda. Introduction and Translation by ROBERT P. GOLDMAN. Annotation by ROBERT P. GOLDMAN and SALLY J. SUTHERLAND. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985. xx, 429 pp. Glossary...

... Jan . 1992 . Revolution und Mythos . Frankfurt/ Main : Fischer . Hess Linda . 1992 . “‘I Swear to Rid the Earth of Demons’: Uses of the Tulsi Rāmāyaṇa and Ram-bhakti in the Ram-Janma-bhumi Movement.” Paper presented at the American Academy of Religion annual meeting. Jameson...

...Janice Leoshko The Two-Headed Deer: Illustrations of the Rāmāyana in Orissa . By Joanna Williams . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1996 . xxiv, 210 pp. 289 plates. $65.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA...

...James D. Ryan The Forest Book of the Rāmāyaṇa of Kampaṉ . Translated by George L. Hart and Hank Heifetz . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1988 . x , 402 pp. $35.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 183...

...David L. Gitomer The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India . Vol. 2: Ayodhyākāṇḍa . Introduction and translation by Sheldon I. Pollock . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1986 . xviii, 558 pp. $60.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 206...

...Hans C. Ruyter Evolution of Morals in the Epics (Mahābhārata and Rāmāyaṇa) . By Dhairyabala P. Vora . Bombay : Popular Bookdepot , 1959 . xv, 280 . Bibliography, Index. Rs. 18.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 BOOK REVIEWS 587 chooses, in and out...

...Frances Pritchett Many Rāmāyaṇas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia . Edited by Paula Richman . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1991 . xiii, 273 pp. $40.00 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK...

...Paula Richman Abstract The Ramayana, one of Hinduism's two preeminent epics, has been retold in diverse ways over the centuries, but one modern rendition is unique: Nārata-Rāmāyaṇam(?) . Its author, C. Virudhachalam (1906–48), wrote in Tamil under the pen name Pudumaippittan, meaning “one who...

.... He no longer cultivated land. Then they wanted new stories, so he went to the Ramayana and Mahabharata and added songs to storytelling and pictures on cloth. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 List of References Anderson Benedict . 1991 . Imagined...

...). Three middle chapters attend to Ramayana traditions and questions of gender. In chapter 6 (“When Does Sītā Cease to Be Sītā: Notes Toward a Cultural Grammar of Indian Narratives”), VNR juxtaposes Sanskrit Ramayanas with Telugu retellings (ranging from oral traditions to modernist short fiction...

... the Harivaṃśa ), three address the Rāmāyaṇa , and two deal with overlapping issues. This distribution is characteristic of modern studies of the Sanskrit epics, in which the Mahābhārata's wealth of thematic issues, moral and identity ambiguities, sociopolitical concerns, diverse mythology, lineage questions...