The Multivalence of an Epic: Retelling the Rāmāyaṇa in South India and Southeast Asia

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Professor D S Achuta Rao
Professor D S Achuta Rao Endowment
Prologue
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
Introduction: Exploring the Epic’s Multivalence: Rāmāyaṇas in Visual, Literary, and Performance Cultures
Part I: Visual Cultures: Sculptures, Paintings, and Inscriptions
	Chapter 1: The Rāmāyaṇa Retold by Sculptors and Scribes in pre-Vijayanagara Karnataka
	Chapter 2: Stone, Wood, Paint: Rāma-Story Representations throughout Southeast Asia
	Chapter 3: Looking for Rāma: Traces of the Rāmāyaṇa in Temples of the Pallava Dynasty
	Chapter 4: Rāmāyaṇa Retold in Khmer sculpture with Special Reference to the Yuddhakāṇḍa, c. 10th-12th centuries
	Chapter 5: Rāmāyaṇa Bronzes and Sculptures from the Cōḻa to Vijayanagara Times
	Chapter 6: Mighty Messenger: Adaptation and Localization of Hanumān and the Rāmāyaṇa in Southeast Asia
	Chapter 7: The Rāmāyaṇa Paintings of the Māliruñcōlai Temple: Nationalism under the Spell of Regionalism
	Chapter 8: Expressions of the Rāmāyaṇa Epic in Malaysian Arts
Part II: Literary Cultures: Texts, Recitation, and Associated Imagery
	Chapter 9: The Discourse on Governance and Ethics as a Leitmotif in the Old Javanese Rāmāyaṇa or Rāmāyaṇa Kakawin
	Chapter 10: Thai Rāmakīen: Its Close Links with South India
	Chapter 11: From Kanauj to Laos: Development of the ‘Floating Maiden’ Episode in the Southeast Asian Rāma Tradition
	Chapter 12: Making of a Language and the Making of a Bhakti Text: The Story of the Composition of Tunćat Ezhuttaććan’s Adhyātma Rāmāyaṇaṃ Kiḷippāṭṭu
	Chapter 13: Kumaran Asan’s ‘Cintāviṣṭayāya Sītā’, Sītā, Deep in Thought, a Translation
	Chapter 14: Mabasan Rāmāyaṇa, a Continuous Retelling of the Rāmāyaṇa in Bali
Part III: Performance Cultures: Theatre, Puppetry, and Folk Practices
	Chapter 15: Representations of Rāvaṇa in a Kathakalī Piece and a Mythological Drama
	Chapter 16: The Rāmāyaṇa of the Malay Shadow Play, Wayang Kulit Kelantan, and its Possible Parallels and Connections with the Epic Versions in Northern Southeast Asia
	Chapter 17: From Palace to Streets: Many Rāmāyaṇas from the Bylanes
	Chapter 18: The Making of Rāmāyaṇa in the Yakṣagāna of Coastal Karnataka
	Chapter 19: Reamker Performance in Khmer Society
The Contributors
Index