Asian Variations in Ramayana (Papers presented at the International Seminar on 'Variations in Ramayana in Asia : Their Cultural, Social and Anthropological Significance' : New Delhi, January 1981)

Book Specification Item Code: IDD959 Author: K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar Publisher: Sahitya Akademi, Delhi Language: English Edition: 2003 ISBN: 8126018097 Pages: 370 (B & W Illus: 6) Cover: Hardcover Other Details 8.8" X 5.8" Book Description Preface I felt honoured, if also embarrassed, when I was asked to edit the papers presented at Sahitya Akademi’s Second International Ramayana Seminar in New Delhi in January 1981. I had participated in the earlier Ramayana Seminar of 1975, but I didn’t attend the more recent one; and this was doubtless a handicap. And, besides, stenographers’ reports of the actual discussions were not available. Accordingly, what is here brought. Together is by no means a complete record of the proceedings of the Seminar. The savants who took part in the Seminar were drawn from different parts of India and Southeast Asia, and the spellings of proper names in some of the papers conform to local usage. Such surface variations are a bye-law of th