About this title: Professor J.L. Brockington is recognized as one of the world's most eminent scholars in the field of Ramayana studies. This volume collects, with some revisions, the more important articles he has written since 1969 on the Ramayana of Valmiki. These articles focus on linguistic features and style, formulaic expression and proverbs, manuscript studies, religious aspects and the relationship between the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780195650259ISBN:0195650255
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Description: Brand New in Brand New jacket. Condition: NEW ~ This volume brings together some of John BrockingtonĘs most influential essays on specific aspects of ValmikiĘs Ramayana. The essays focus on linguistic features and style, formulaic expressions and proverbs, manuscript studies, and religious aspects of the epic as well as the relationship between the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. They provide a detailed argumentation for the five stages of growth in the Ramayana, first postulated in Brockington ... read more
Description: As New. Contents: Introduction: an empirical approach to the Ramayana by Greg Bailey. John Leonard Brockington: publications 1969-99. I. Stages of composition: linguistic evidence: 1. The verbal system of the Ramayana (1969-70). 2. The nominal system of the Ramayana (1969-70). 3. Stereotyped expressions in the Ramayana (1970). 4. Figures of speech in the Ramayana (1977). 5. Valmiki's proverbs (1979). 6. The syntax of the Ramayana (1982). II. Manuscript studies: 1. Textual studies in Valmiki's ... read more
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, New Delhi, India
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780195662955ISBN:0195662954
Description: New. 14 Cms x 22 Cms. This volume brings together John Brockington's articles on the Ramayana and Mahabharata, relating them to wider issues in the study of the Sanskrit epics. Printed Pages: 398. read more
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