A Critical Inventory of Rāmāyaṇa Studies in the World: Foreign languages

A Critical Inventory of Rāmāyaṇa Studies in the World: Foreign languages
Author: K. Krishnamoorthy
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
Total Pages: 302
Release: 1991
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9788172015077

This Is The Second Volume Of A Critical Inventory Of Ramayana Studies In The World In 28 Foreign Languages In Addition To Urdu & Nepali. The Volume Also Contains A Number Of Learned Articles On Ramayana Variations By Eminent Scholars.

Banishment and Belonging

Banishment and Belonging
Author: Ronit Ricci
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2019-11-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108570275

Lanka, Ceylon, Sarandib: merely three disparate names for a single island? Perhaps. Yet the three diverge in the historical echoes, literary cultures, maps and memories they evoke. Names that have intersected and overlapped - in a treatise, a poem, a document - only to go their own ways. But despite different trajectories, all three are tied to narratives of banishment and exile. Ronit Ricci suggests that the island served as a concrete exilic site as well as a metaphor for imagining exile across religions, languages, space and time: Sarandib, where Adam was banished from Paradise; Lanka, where Sita languished in captivity; and Ceylon, faraway island of exile for Indonesian royalty under colonialism. Utilising Malay manuscripts and documents from Sri Lanka, Javanese chronicles, and Dutch and British sources, Ricci explores histories and imaginings of displacement related to the island through a study of the Sri Lankan Malays and their connections to an exilic past.

The Multivalence of an Epic

The Multivalence of an Epic
Author: Parul Pandya Dhar
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2023-10-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000991962

This volume examines The Rāmāyaṇa traditions of South India and Southeast Asia. Bringing together 19 well-known scholars in Rāmāyaṇa 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 Rāmāyaṇa in changing socio-political, religious, and cultural contexts. The journey and localization of the Rāmāyaṇa 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 Rāmāyaṇas 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 Rāmāyaṇas. A related emphasis is on the way boundaries of medium and genre have been crossed in the visual, literary, and performed representations of the Rāmāyaṇa. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)

Five Decades

Five Decades
Author: D. S. Rao
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2004
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9788126020607

On the completion of fiftieth year of Sahitya Akademi.

Cultural and Civilisational Links between India and Southeast Asia

Cultural and Civilisational Links between India and Southeast Asia
Author: Shyam Saran
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2018-07-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9811073171

The books presents the study undertaken by the ASEAN-India Centre (AIC) at Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) on India’s cultural links with Southeast Asia, with particular reference to historical and contemporary dimensions. The book traces ancient trade and maritime links, Chola Empire and Southeast Asia, religious exchanges (the Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic heritage), language, scripts and folklore, performing arts, painting and sculpture, architecture, role of the Indian Diaspora, contemporary cultural interaction, etc.

Ramopakhyana - The Story of Rama in the Mahabharata

Ramopakhyana - The Story of Rama in the Mahabharata
Author: Peter Scharf
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 958
Release: 2014-01-02
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1136846557

The most popular story in all of India and a classic of world literature is summarised in 728 verses in the great epic Mahabharata. Intended for independent study or classroom use for students of various levels who have had a basic introduction to Sanskrit, this fully annotated edition of the Ramopakhyana supplies all the information required for complete comprehension. It contains the Devanagari text, Roman transliteration, sandhi analysis, Sanskrit prose equivalents to the verses, syntactic and cultural notes, and the English translation, and word-by-word grammatical analysis.

Memory, Metaphor and Mysticism in Kalidasas AbhijñnaŚkuntalam

Memory, Metaphor and Mysticism in Kalidasas AbhijñnaŚkuntalam
Author: Namrata Chaturvedi
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2020-03-28
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1785273213

A study of ‘AbhijñānaŚākuntalam’ has to situate the contexts in ancient through medieval Indian literature and scholarship before it comes to the colonial and the contemporary. In epistemological privileging, this text has become either a Hindoo play in the colonial, Hindu drama in the Hindutva and a love story in the Western theoretical paradigms of scholarship. The essays in ‘Memory, Metaphor and Mysticism in Kalidasa’s ‘AbhijñānaŚākuntalam’ attempt to restore contexts, especially philosophical contexts, for reading this play.

Hikayat Hang Tuha (atau Hikayat Hang Tua)

Hikayat Hang Tuha (atau Hikayat Hang Tua)
Author: Ahmat Adam
Publisher: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre
Total Pages: 429
Release:
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9672165994

Karya ini sekali lagi mempamerkan keberanian pengarangnya dalam memberikan tafsiran baru terhadap satu lagi karya klasik agung orang Melayu. Kali ini dengan menggunakan kaedah filologi, Prof. Emeritus Datuk Dr. Ahmat Adam secara kritis telah membedah isi kandungan sebuah hikayat yang selama lebih daripada dua abad ternyata salah dibaca dan silap ditransliterasikan ke huruf Rumi oleh para pengkaji Orientalis dan tempatan. Kesalahan zaman-berzaman ini jugalah yang menjadikan hikayat yang masyhur ini telah silap ditafsirkan bukan sahaja dari segi penyebutan nama gelaran Laksamana Melaka yang sebenar, tetapi juga dari segi isi kandungan yang menceritakan petualangan Laksamana yang masyhur itu. Yang menjadi lebih parah lagi ialah selepas kisah legendaris Laksamana itu diceriterakan oleh pengarang Sulalat u’s-Salatin, kisah pengembaraannya yang dilukiskan di dalam Hikayat Hang Tuha telah mempengaruhi pemikiran sebahagian anggota masyarakat dan dipercayai oleh mereka itu sebagai kisah yang benar-benar terjadi dalam sejarah Melaka. Melalui kajian ini pengarang cuba mengajak pembaca agar menilai sendiri karya sastera yang berlatarkan sejarah ini, dan cuba berfikir secara kritis untuk membezakannya dengan sebuah karya sejarah yang lebih tulen mengenai kesultanan Melaka dan Laksamana yang benar-benar wujud pada zaman abad ke-15 dan ke-16.

Tawarikh Melayu dan Melaka

Tawarikh Melayu dan Melaka
Author: Ahmat Adam
Publisher: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre
Total Pages: 169
Release:
Genre: History
ISBN: 9672464983

“...penerbitan esei-esei ini juga digerakkan oleh rasa tidak senang penulis terhadap beberapa orang yang berlagak sarjana ilmu tawarikh tetapi menulis hal-hal dongeng ciptaannya sendiri yang didakwanya sebagai sejarah, tanpa mengemukakan dalil sahih yang menjadi landasan penulisan ilmu tawarikh atau ilmu sejarah.” Dalam karya terbarunya ini, Prof. Emeritus Ahmat Adam membincangkan zaman silam Melaka dan kaitannya dengan tawarikh bangsa Melayu. Esei-esei yang terkumpul dalam buku ini adalah hasil daripada penyelidikan beliau, dan antara topik yang dibincangkan ialah penaklukan kesultanan Melayu Melaka oleh bangsa Portugis, perihal Laksamana Melaka yang bergelar Hang Tuha (bukan “Tuah”), dan warisan budaya Nusantara seperti ilmu huruf serta hubungannya dengan permasalahan dan makna huruf al-Qur’an yang sangat mempengaruhi para sarjana zaman dahulu.