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Re figuring the Ramayana as Theology A History of Reception in Premodern India 1st Edition by Ajay Rao ISBN 9780415687515 0415687515

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Author(s): Ajay K. Rao
ISBN(s): 9780415687515, 0415687519
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.82 MB
Year: 2014
Language: english
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ISBN 10:  0415687515

ISBN 13:  9780415687515

Author: Ajay K. Rao

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.

This book examines Rāmāyana commentaries, poetic retellings, and praise-poems produced by intellectuals within the Śrīvaisnava order of South India from 1250 to 1600 and shows how these intellectuals reconceptualized Rāma’s story through the lens of their devotional metaphysics. Śrīvaisnavas applied innovative interpretive techniques to the Rāmāyana, including allegorical reading, ślesa reading (reading a verse as a double entendre), and the application of vernacular performance techniques such as word play, improvisation, repetition, and novel forms of citation. The book is of interest not only to Rāmāyana specialists but also to those engaged with Indian intellectual history, literary studies, and the history of religions.

Table of contents: 

  1. Two Conceptions of Divinity

  2. Translating Pearls into Coral

  3. Double Reading

  4. Rama in the Imperial Capital

  5. Conclusion

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