A History of Reception in Premodern India
by
Ajay K. Rao
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
The Rāmāyana of Vālmīki is considered by many contemporary Hindus to be a foundational religious text. But this understanding is in part the result of a transformation of the epic’s receptive history, a hermeneutic project which challenged one characterization of the genre of the text, as a...