This volume examines The Ramaya a traditions of South India and Southeast Asia. Bringing together 19 well-known scholars in Ramaya a studies from Cambodia, Canada, France, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, UK, and USA, this thought-provoking and elegantly illustrated volume engages with the inherent plurality, diversity, and adaptability of the Ramaya a in changing socio-political, religious, and cultural contexts.
The journey and localization of the Ramaya a is explored in its manifold expressions – from classical to folk, from temples and palaces to theatres and by-lanes in cities and villages, and from ancient to modern times. Regional Ramaya as from different parts of South India and Southeast Asia are placed in deliberate juxtaposition to enable a historically informed discussion of their connected pasts across land and seas. The three parts of this volume, organized as visual, literary, and performance cultures, discuss the sculpted, painted, inscribed, written, recited, and performed Ramaya as. A related emphasis is on the way boundaries of medium and genre have been crossed in the visual, literary, and performed representations of the Ramaya a.
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This volume examines The Ramaya a traditions of South India and Southeast Asia. The three parts of this volume, organized as visual, literary, and performance cultures, discuss the sculpted, painted, inscribed, written, recited, and performed Ramaya as.
Prologue
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Exploring the Epics Multivalence: Rmyaas in Visual, Literary, and
Performance Cultures
Parul Pandya Dhar
I. Visual Cultures: Sculptures, Paintings, and Inscriptions
1. The Rmyaa Retold by Sculptors and Scribes in pre-Vijayanagara
Karnataka
Parul Pandya Dhar
2. Stone, Wood, Paint: Rma-Story Representations throughout Southeast Asia
John Brockington
3. Looking for Rma: Traces of the Rmyaa in Temples of the Pallava
Dynasty
Valérie Gillet
4. Rmyaa Retold in Khmer sculpture with Special Reference to the
Yuddhaka, c. 10th-12th centuries
Rachel Loizeau
5. Rmyaa Bronzes and Sculptures from the Ca to Vijayanagara Times
Sharada Srinivasan
6. Mighty Messenger: Adaptation and Localization of Hanumn and the Rmyaa
in Southeast Asia
Gauri Parimoo Krishnan
7. The Rmyaa Paintings of the Mliruñclai Temple: Nationalism under the
Spell of Regionalism
RKK Rajarajan
8. Expressions of the Rmyaa Epic in Malaysian Arts
Cheryl Thiruchelvam
II. Literary Cultures: Texts, Recitation, and Associated Imagery
9. The Discourse on Governance and Ethics as a Leitmotif in the Old Javanese
Rmyaa or Rmyaa Kakawin
Malini Saran
10. Thai Rmaken: Its Close Links with South India
Chirapat Prapandvidya
11. From Kanauj to Laos: Development of the Floating Maiden Episode in the
Southeast Asian Rma Tradition
Mary Brockington
12. Making of a Language and the Making of a Bhakti Text: The Story of the
Composition of Tunat Ezhuttaans Adhytma Rmyaa Kiippu
A J Thomas
13. Kumaran Asans Cintviayya St, St, Deep in Thought, a
Translation
Sudha Gopalakrishnan
14. Mabasan Rmyaa, a Continuous Retelling of the Rmyaa in Bali
Thomas M Hunter
III. Performance Cultures: Theatre, Puppetry, and Folk Practices
15. Representations of Rvaa in a Kathakal Piece and a Mythological Drama
Paula Richman
16. The Rmyaa of the Malay Shadow Play, Wayang Kulit Kelantan, and its
Possible Parallels and Connections with the Epic Versions in Northern
Southeast Asia
Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof
17. From Palace to Streets: Many Rmyaas from the Bylanes
Krishna Murthy Hanuru
18. The Making of Rmyaa in the Yakagna of Coastal Karnataka
Purushottama Bilimale
19. Reamker Performance in Khmer Society
Sirang Leng
The Contributors
Index
Parul Pandya Dhar is art historian and professor in the Department of History, University of Delhi. She has authored The Toraa in Indian and Southeast Asian Architecture (2010), edited Indian Art History: Changing Perspectives (2011), and co-edited Temple Architecture and Imagery of South and Southeast Asia (2016), Asian Encounters: Exploring Connected Histories (2014), and Cultural Interface of India with Asia (2004), besides contributing several research articles.
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