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Zambkka and the RαmαyaGa Tradition : A History of Motifs and Motives in South Asia.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sherraden, Aaron.
- Series:
- Anthem world epic and romance
- Anthem World Epic and Romance
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Śambūkā (Hindu mythological character).
- Śambūkā.
- Vālmīki. Rāmāyaṇa.
- Vālmīki.
- Hindu mythology--History.
- Hindu mythology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (230 p.).
- Place of Publication:
- London : Anthem Press, 2023.
- Contents:
- 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 Kampan1 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
- El1utacchan'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
- Notes:
- Śambūka, Rohith Vemula, and the Lynching of African Americans in the United States
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Sherraden, Aaron Zambkka and the RαmαyaGa Tradition
- ISBN:
- 9781839984716
- 1839984716
- 9781839984709
- 1839984708
- Publisher Number:
- 40031883224
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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