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Title:
Volume 45 - Issue 3
Date:
1994
Table of contents:
- p. Front and Back [Advertisements]: [Photographs: The Rama Legend in Art]
- p. viii, 1-14 [Also in - The Legend of Rama: Artistic Visions; ISBN:81-85026-24-6, Pages - iv, 1-14; Ed. Vidya Dehejia]: Dehejia, Vidya, Rama: Hero and Avatar | The story of Rama is popular because he is both a human hero and an avatara of Vishnu. He is represented in terracotta panels and stucco reliefs adorning brick and stone temples, some relating to the Gupta period. The Ramayana was regularly copied on illustrated manuscripts between 1020 and the 19th century and adopted in Sanskrit literature of the Gupta, post-Gupta, and later periods. The Rama legend spread throughout India and southeast Asia, and in recent years the Ramayana seems to have reached a wider audience than ever before.
- p. 15-26 [Also in - The Legend of Rama: Artistic Visions; ISBN:81-85026-24-6, Pages - 15-26; Ed. Vidya Dehejia]: Stoler Miller, Barbara, The Universe of Rama: Valmiki's Epic Poem | The structural unity of the Ramayana attributed to Valmiki is derived from its powerful emotional base. Its poetic ornamentation sustains the mood of the epic. The extant form of the Valmiki Ramayana consists of 24000 verses, and the nucleus of the story dates between 500-300 BCE. Within the narrative universe of the Ramayana, temporal and moral dimensions of heroic action are governed by distinctive conceptions of time and moral order.
- p. 27-42 [Also in - The Legend of Rama: Artistic Visions; ISBN:81-85026-24-6, Pages - 27-42; Ed. Vidya Dehejia]: Wechsler, Helen J., Royal Legitimation -- Ramayana Reliefs on the Papanatha Temple at Pattadakal
- p. 43-60 [Also in - The Legend of Rama: Artistic Visions; ISBN:81-85026-24-6, Pages - 43-60; Ed. Vidya Dehejia]: Sanford, David T., Ramayana Portraits -- The Nageshvara Temple at Kumbakonam | The essay suggests arguments for seing in the "portrait sculptures" in Nageshvara temple at least partial references to characters in the Ramayana. Various aspects of the entire fabric of the temple are correlated to provide a hypothesis consonant with the interrelationships of such elements. These include an explanation for the typology and placement of the enigmatic figures, and the unique characters of the miniature relief panels of the Ramayana. Rama appears to have served as both an ideal for the king in south India and an object of devotion. The royal patron of the Nageshvara temple may have been the Pandya king Shrimara Shri Vallabha (815-862), or one of his sons (Varaguna II or Parantaka Viranarayana).
- P. 61-72 [Also in - The Legend of Rama: Artistic Visions; ISBN:81-85026-24-6, Pages - 73-84; Ed. Vidya Dehejia]: Das, Asok Kumar, Akbar's Imperial Ramayana -- A Mughal Persian Manuscript | An illustrated manuscript of Badaoni's Persian translation of the Ramayana is in the collection of the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum in Jaipur. The 176 miniatures in the manuscript are painted by several masters, including Basawan, Lal, Miskin, and Kesav.
- P. 73-88 [Also in - The Legend of Rama: Artistic Visions; ISBN:81-85026-24-6, Pages - 85-100; Ed. Vidya Dehejia]: Seyller, John, A Sub-Imperial Mughal Manuscript -- The Ramayana of Abd al-Rahim Khankhanan