The Ramayana Tradition in Asia

Preface......Page 8
The Ramayana in Sanskrit Literature (Dr. V. Raghavan)......Page 20
The Old Javanese Ramayana, Its Composer and Composition (Soewito Santoso)......Page 39
The Role of the Sacred Book in Religion—The Ramayana (Harry M. Buck)......Page 59
Ramacaritamanasa and its Relevance to Modern Age (Rev. C. Bulcke)......Page 77
Validity of the Ramayana Values (Sukumari Bhattacharji)......Page 95
Ramayana Manuscript in Differnt Versions (U. P. Shah)......Page 112
The Migration of the Ramayana Story to Indonesia and Some Problems Connected with the Structure and Contents of the Old Javanese Ramayana (Himansu Bhusan Sarkar)......Page 122
The Malaysian Ramayana in Performance (Ami Sweeney)......Page 141
Appendix: The Malay Shadow-Play......Page 157
Ramayana in Malaysia (Ismail Hussein)......Page 161
The Ramayana in the Philippines (Jaun R. Francisco)......Page 174
The Ramayana Tradition in Kannada (V. Sitaramiah)......Page 197
Ramayana in Malayalam Literature and Folk-Lore (N. V. Krishna Warrior)......Page 223
Ramayana in Telugu Literature and Folk Lore (C. R. Sarma)......Page 234
Jain Ramayanas and Their Source (V. M. Kulkarni)......Page 245
Ramayana in Thai Literature......Page 257
The Ramayana in Laos (Vientiane Version) (Kamala Ratnam)......Page 261
Re-Creations of the Ramayana in Tamil and Hindi (S. Shankar Raju Naidu)......Page 290
Ramayana in Inscriptions (D. C. Sircar)......Page 297
Textual Theme of Ramayana in Japan (Minoru Hara)......Page 309
Ramayana in Nepali (Kamala Sankrityayan)......Page 323
Ramayana in Sinhala Literature and Its Folk Version (J. Tilakasiri)......Page 360
The Ramayana and its Impact on Gujarati Literature (Umashankar Joshi)......Page 372
Sri Ramayana in Tamilnadu in Art, Thought and Literature (R. Nagaswamy)......Page 384
Ramayana in Srilanka and Lanka of the Ramayana (C. E. Godakumbura)......Page 405
Tulasidasa's Ramacaritamanasa in Hindi and Its Relationship to the Sanskrit Version of Valmiki, the Tamil Version of Kamban, and the Thai Version of King Rama I (S. Singaravelu)......Page 430
Bhusundi Ramayana and Its Influence on the Medieval Ramayana Literature (Bhagwati Prasad Singh)......Page 450
Ramcharitamanas and the Performing Tradition of Ramayana (Induja Awasthi)......Page 480
Ramavatar (Ramayana) by Guru Gobind Singh (Baljit Tulsi)......Page 492
Ramayana in Kashmiri Literature and Folk-Lore (P. N. Pushp)......Page 509
The Ramayana in Bengal (Bhabatosh Datta)......Page 521
Rama-Literature in Orissa and Its Influence on Indonesia (Dr. K. C. Sahoo)......Page 536
Ramayana in Manipuri Literature and Folklore (E. Nilakantha Singh)......Page 548
Ramayana in Assamese Literature (Biswanarayan Shastri)......Page 558
Oral Tradition of the Ramayana in Bengal (Asutosh Bhattacharya)......Page 568
Ramayana in Oriya Literature and Oral Tradition (Nilamani Mishra)......Page 592
The Ramayana in Indian Sculpture (C. Sivaramamurti)......Page 611
Ramayana, The Epic of Asia (Lokesh Chandra)......Page 623
Ramayana in Mongolia (T. S. Damdinsuren)......Page 628
The Ramayana Tradition and the Performing Arts (Suresh Awasthi)......Page 635
Ramayana in Sculpture and Paintings in Thailand (M. C. Subhadradis Diskul)......Page 645
Ramayana in the Arts of Asia (Kapila Vatsyayan)......Page 656
List of participants who attended the International Ramayana Seminar......Page 678
Index......Page 682