Śambūka and the Rāmāyaṇa Tradition : A History of Motifs and Motives in South Asia.

This book details the developmental history of narratives that affirm, condemn, modify, or ignore the controversial execution of Śambūka, a minor Rāmāyaṇa character of low social standing. Changing socio-political sentiments throughout Indian history have forced numerous revisions to the Śambu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sherraden, Aaron
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Anthem Press, 2023.
Colección:Anthem world epic and romance.
Temas:
Śambūkā > (Hindu mythological character)
Vālmīki. > Rāmāyaṇa.
Hindu mythology > History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Halftitle Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword: Śambūka's Story across Time and India's Regions
  • A Note on Transliteration
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Introduction: Śambūka's Death Toll
  • The Traditions of the Rāmāyaṇa and Śambūka
  • The Plan for This Book
  • 2. Śambūka's Earliest Death
  • Understanding the Uttarakāṇḍa
  • The Development of Varṇadharma in Texts Composed between the Empires
  • Varṇadharma, tapas, and Śūdra exclusion
  • The Mānava Dharmaśāstra
  • The Arthaśāstra
  • Śambūka in the Vālmı̄ki Rāmāyaṇa
  • Why Is the Śambūka Story in the Rāmāyaṇa Narrative?
  • How to Read Vālmı̄ki's Śambūka
  • 3. First Responders
  • Kālidāsa's Śambūka Attains the Course of Virtuous Men
  • Setting the Record Straight in the Paümacariya
  • Forming the Foundations of Śambūka's Future
  • 4. The Uttararāmacarita and Śambūka's Purpose in Death
  • Connections and Divergences between Kālidāsa and Bhavabhūti
  • Pity in Bhavabhūti's Uttararāmacarita
  • The Hand that Swings the Sword
  • Śambūka Speaks ... in Sanskrit
  • Śambūka's Death, It's All a Part of the Plan
  • Śambūka's New Importance
  • 5. The Accident or the Execution
  • Placing Bhakti
  • The Vernacular Rāmāyaṇas of Kampaṉ and Tulsı̄dās
  • Bringing Vālmı̄ki into a New Era
  • Śivasahāya's commentary on the Vālmı̄ki Rāmāyaṇa
  • The Padma Purāṇa
  • The Kaṇṇaśśa Rāmāyaṇa
  • Kṣemendra's Rāmāyaṇamañjarı̄
  • The Salvation of Śambūka
  • Kṣemendra's Daśāvatāracarita
  • The Adhyātma Rāmāyaṇa
  • Eḻutacchan's Malayalam Adhyātma Rāmāyaṇam
  • The Rāmcaritmānas' Afterword
  • It Was an Accident!
  • Nāgacandra's Pampa Rāmāyaṇa
  • The Raṅganātha Rāmāyaṇa
  • Eknāth's Bhāvārtha Rāmāyaṇa
  • Kerala shadow puppetry: tolpāvakūttu
  • Raviṣeṇa's Padma Purāṇa
  • Svayambhūdeva's Paümacariu
  • Hemacandra's Triṣaṣṭiśalākāpuruṣacarita
  • Who is narrating Śambūka's accidental death?
  • The Curious Case of the Ānanda Rāmāyaṇa
  • Borrowing Śambūka's Death: Narrative Exchange between Jains and Hindus
  • 6. Śambūka Lives on Ramtek Hill
  • Ramtek and the Vākāṭakas
  • Ramtek and the Yādavas
  • Ramtek and the Marāṭhās
  • Ramtek Today
  • Śambūka's Layered History on Ramtek Hill
  • 7. The Anti-Caste Revolutionary
  • The Politics of Caste
  • Tripuraneni Ramaswami Chaudari's Śambuka Vadha
  • Comparing Śambūka's Crimes: Swami Achhutanand's Rām-Rājya-Nyāy and Santram B.A.'s Niraparādh kı̄ Hatyā
  • Dr. B.R. Ambedkar on Śambūka
  • Two Periyars Censure the Rāmāyaṇa
  • A Battle over the Details: Śambūka in the Twentieth Century
  • 8. Śambūka in the Twenty-First Century
  • The Aadi Dharm Samaaj and The Martyrdom Day of the Great Sage Śambūka
  • Śambūka in The Last Letter

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