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Re-figuring the Ramayana as Theology A History of Reception in Premodern India
By Ajay K. Rao
Copyright 2015
166 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
166 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
166 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The Rāmāyana of Vālmīki is considered by many contemporary Hindus to be a foundational religious text. But this understanding is in part the result of a transformation of the epic’s receptive history, a hermeneutic project which challenged one characterization of the genre of the text, as a work of literary culture, and replaced it with another, as a work of remembered tradition.
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1. Two Conceptions of Divinity 2. Translating Pearls into Coral 3. Double Reading 4. Rama in the Imperial Capital 5. Conclusion
Biography
Ajay Rao is Assistant Professor in the Department of Historical Studies (UTM) and the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto, Canada. His areas of research include South Asian religions and Sanskrit literature and intellectual history.
