Journal article
The View from the Ghats: Traditional Exegesis of a Hindu Epic
The Journal of Asian studies, Vol.48(2), pp.272-288
05/01/1989
DOI: 10.2307/2057378
Abstract
In the most popular North Indian version of the Rām legend, the sixteenth-century Hindi epic Rāmcaritmānas of Tulsīdās, a multivocal narrative of interwoven dialogues is linked together by the powerful allegory of a Himalayan lake and its four encompassing banks. Philip Lutgendorf draws on the insights of the epic's traditional commentators and performers to explore the relationship between the epic's framing strategy and the influential genres of exegesis and performance that have developed around it. He suggests that the Hindi poet's graphic allegory symbolically encodes a traditional Indian hermeneutic.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The View from the Ghats: Traditional Exegesis of a Hindu Epic
- Creators
- Philip Lutgendorf
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Journal of Asian studies, Vol.48(2), pp.272-288
- DOI
- 10.2307/2057378
- ISSN
- 0021-9118
- eISSN
- 1752-0401
- Publisher
- The Association for Asian Studies, Inc
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/01/1989
- Academic Unit
- Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures; International Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9984397914502771
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