According to Vālmīki's Sanskrit Rāmāyaṇa (early centuries CE), Śambūka was practicing severe acts of austerity to enter heaven. In engaging in these acts as a Śūdra, Śambūka was in violation of class- and caste-based societal norms prescribed exclusively by the ruling and religious elite. Rāma,...

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1. Verfasser:	Sherraden, Aaron (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London, England Anthem Press 2024
Schriftenreihe:	Anthem World Epic and Romance
Schlagworte:	Śaṃbūkā / (Hindu mythological character) Vālmīki > Rāmāyaṇa Hindu mythology / History Acting / Religious aspects / Hinduism Performance / Religious aspects / Hinduism Performing arts / Religious aspects / Hinduism
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Zusammenfassung:	According to Vālmīki's Sanskrit Rāmāyaṇa (early centuries CE), Śambūka was practicing severe acts of austerity to enter heaven. In engaging in these acts as a Śūdra, Śambūka was in violation of class- and caste-based societal norms prescribed exclusively by the ruling and religious elite. Rāma, the hero of the Rāmāyaṇa epic, is dispatched to kill Śambūka, whose transgression is said to be the cause of a young Brahmin's death. The gods rejoice upon the Śūdra's death and restore the life of the Brahmin. Subsequent Rāmāyaṇa poets almost instantly recognized this incident as a blemish on Rāma's character and they began problematizing this earliest version of the story. They adjusted and updated the story to suit the expectations of their audiences. The works surveyed in this study include numerous works originating in Hindu, Jain, Dalit and non-Brahmin communities while spanning the period from Śambūka's first appearance in the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa through to the present day. The book follows the Śambūka episode chronologically across its entire history - approximately two millennia - to illuminate the social, religious, legal, and artistic connections that span the entire range of the Rāmāyaṇa's influence and its place throughout various phases of Indian history and social revolution
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Feb 2024) Cover -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword: Śambūka's Story across Time and India's Regions -- A Note on Transliteration -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: Śambūka's Death Toll -- The Traditions of the Rāmāyaṇa and Śambūka -- The Plan for This Book -- 2. Śambūka's Earliest Death -- Understanding the Uttarakāṇḍa -- The Development of Varṇadharma in Texts Composed between the Empires -- Varṇadharma, tapas, and Śūdra exclusion -- The Mānava Dharmaśāstra -- The Arthaśāstra -- Śambūka in the Vālmı̄ki Rāmāyaṇa -- Why Is the Śambūka Story in the Rāmāyaṇa Narrative? -- How to Read Vālmı̄ki's Śambūka -- 3. First Responders -- Kālidāsa's Śambūka Attains the Course of Virtuous Men -- Setting the Record Straight in the Paümacariya -- Forming the Foundations of Śambūka's Future -- - 4. The Uttararāmacarita and Śambūka's Purpose in Death -- Connections and Divergences between Kālidāsa and Bhavabhūti -- Pity in Bhavabhūti's Uttararāmacarita -- The Hand that Swings the Sword -- Śambūka Speaks ... in Sanskrit -- Śambūka's Death, It's All a Part of the Plan -- Śambūka's New Importance -- 5. The Accident or the Execution -- Placing Bhakti -- The Vernacular Rāmāyaṇas of Kampaṉ and Tulsı̄dās -- Bringing Vālmı̄ki into a New Era -- Śivasahāya's commentary on the Vālmı̄ki Rāmāyaṇa -- The Padma Purāṇa -- The Kaṇṇaśśa Rāmāyaṇa -- Kṣemendra's Rāmāyaṇamañjarı̄ -- The Salvation of Śambūka -- Kṣemendra's Daśāvatāracarita -- The Adhyātma Rāmāyaṇa -- Eḻutacchan's Malayalam Adhyātma Rāmāyaṇam -- The Rāmcaritmānas' Afterword -- It Was an Accident! -- Nāgacandra's Pampa Rāmāyaṇa -- The Raṅganātha Rāmāyaṇa -- - Eknāth's Bhāvārtha Rāmāyaṇa -- Kerala shadow puppetry: tolpāvakūttu Raviṣeṇa's Padma Purāṇa -- Svayambhūdeva's Paümacariu -- Hemacandra's Triṣaṣṭiśalākāpuruṣacarita -- Who is narrating Śambūka's accidental death? -- The Curious Case of the Ānanda Rāmāyaṇa -- Borrowing Śambūka's Death: Narrative Exchange between Jains and Hindus -- 6. Śambūka Lives on Ramtek Hill -- Ramtek and the Vākāṭakas -- Ramtek and the Yādavas -- Ramtek and the Marāṭhās -- Ramtek Today -- Śambūka's Layered History on Ramtek Hill -- 7. The Anti-Caste Revolutionary -- The Politics of Caste -- Tripuraneni Ramaswami Chaudari's Śambuka Vadha -- Comparing Śambūka's Crimes: Swami Achhutanand's Rām-Rājya-Nyāy and Santram B.A.'s Niraparādh kı̄ Hatyā -- Dr. B.R. Ambedkar on Śambūka -- Two Periyars Censure the Rāmāyaṇa -- A Battle over the Details: Śambūka in the Twentieth Century -- 8. Śambūka in the Twenty-First Century -- The Aadi Dharm Samaaj and The Martyrdom Day of the Great Sage Śambūka -- Śambūka in The Last Letter -- Śambūka, Rohith Vemula, and the Lynching of African Americans in the United States -- Controlling the Narrative: Śambūka's Slaughter -- 9. Conclusion: Śambūka and the Rāmāyaṇa Tradition -- Bibliography -- Index
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 249 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781839984709