This book is the first to present current scholarship on gender and in regional and sectarian versions of the Ramaya?a. Contributors explore in what ways the versions relate to other Ramaya?a texts as
This comprehensive study of both Sanskrit epics, the Mahabharata (including the Harivam?sa) and the Ramayan?a, surveys the current state of research and presents a coherent view of their nature and si
One of India?s great epics in a powerful new translation The Ramayana (along with the Mahabharata) is to India what the epics of Homer and the stories of the Bible are to Western culture: works that c