The Multivalence of an Epic

Prologue

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Exploring the Epic's Multivalence: Ramaya?as in Visual, Literary, and Performance Cultures

Parul Pandya Dhar

I. Visual Cultures: Sculptures, Paintings, and Inscriptions

1. The Ramaya?a Retold by Sculptors and Scribes in pre-Vijayanagara Karnataka

Parul Pandya Dhar

2. Stone, Wood, Paint: Rama-Story Representations throughout Southeast Asia

John Brockington

3. Looking for Rama: Traces of the Ramaya?a in Temples of the Pallava Dynasty

Valerie Gillet

4. Ramaya?a Retold in Khmer sculpture with Special Reference to the Yuddhaka??a, c. 10th-12th centuries

Rachel Loizeau

5. Ramaya?a Bronzes and Sculptures from the Co?a to Vijayanagara Times

Sharada Srinivasan

6. Mighty Messenger: Adaptation and Localization of Hanuman and the Ramaya?a in Southeast Asia

Gauri Parimoo Krishnan

7. The Ramaya?a Paintings of the Maliruncolai Temple: Nationalism under the Spell of Regionalism

RKK Rajarajan

8. Expressions of the Ramaya?a 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 Ramaya?a or Ramaya?a Kakawin

Malini Saran

10. Thai Ramakien: Its Close Links with South India

Chirapat Prapandvidya

11. From Kanauj to Laos: Development of the 'Floating Maiden' Episode in the Southeast Asian Rama Tradition

Mary Brockington

12. Making of a Language and the Making of a Bhakti Text: The Story of the Composition of Tuncat Ezhuttaccan's Adhyatma Ramaya?a? Ki?ippa??u

A J Thomas

13. Kumaran Asan's 'Cintavi??ayaya Sita', Sita, Deep in Thought, a Translation

Sudha Gopalakrishnan

14. Mabasan Ramaya?a, a Continuous Retelling of the Ramaya?a in Bali

Thomas M Hunter

III. Performance Cultures: Theatre, Puppetry, and Folk Practices

15. Representations of Rava?a in a Kathakali Piece and a Mythological Drama

Paula Richman

16. The Ramaya?a 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 Ramaya?as from the Bylanes

Krishna Murthy Hanuru

18. The Making of Ramaya?a in the Yak?agana of Coastal Karnataka

Purushottama Bilimale

19. Reamker Performance in Khmer Society

Sirang Leng

The Contributors

Index