The Story of Rama
(Should he be considered an ideal king?)


*images of the Ramayana*
*Bhaja* and *Karle*
*early maps*

 

 

 
 
 
 
REQUIRED WORK:

== Stein, pp. 83-104

== Embree, vol. 1, pp. 203-231: "Dharma: the First End of Man"

== Richard Schechner, "A Maharajah's Festival for Body and Soul." New York Times, Nov. 26, 2000: on the *CU website* (and on the *NYT website*)

 
 
 
     
 
 
 
FURTHER RESOURCES:
 

== "Like Mother, Like Son: Sita and Hanuman" by Philip Lutgendorf. Manushi 114, pp. 22-35: on the *CU website*

= "Dining out at Lake Pampa: the Shabari Episode in Multiple Ramayanas," by Philip Lutgendorf: on the *CU website*. This is a draft of an article that later appeared in Paula Richman, ed., Questioning Ramayanas: a South Asian Tradition (Berkeley: University of California, 2001), pp. 119-36.

= "The Divinity of Rama in the Ramayana of Valmiki," by Louis Gonzalez-Reimann, Journal of Indian Philosophy 34:203-20 (2006): *site*

= More study material on "dharma, the first end of man," linked to the text, *Sources of Indian Tradition*

 
 
     
 

 
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