SOURCE: Ramanujan, A. K. “Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on Translation.” In Many Rāmāyanas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia, edited by Paula Richman, pp. 22-49. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
In the following essay, originally presented at a conference in 1987, Ramanujan compares several versions or “tellings” of the Ramayana.
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