Richard W. Lariviere

The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India. Volume I: Bālakāṇḍa@@@The Ramayana of Valmiki: An Epic of Ancient India. Volume I: Balakanda

List of Abbreviations ix Preface xiii Guide to Sanskrit Pronunciation xix PART 1. INTRODUCTION 1 1. General Introduction 3 2. History and Historicity 14 3. Introduction to the Balakanda 60 4. The Ramayana Text and the Critical Edition by Sheldon I. Pollock 82 5. Translating the Ramayana by Leonard E. Nathan 94 6. The Translation and Annotation 96 PART II. BALAKANDA 119 Glossary of Important Proper Nouns and Epithets 271 Bibliography of Works Consulted 277 Index 291

Structure and Cognition. Aspects of Hindu Caste and Ritual.

This is a paperback reissue of the second edition of Structure and Cognition, first published in 1977, when it won the prestigious Ghuyre Award for Sociology. Departing from the conventional empirical studies of local communities, it draws its data from original sources in Puranic and Sutra literature. Sociologists; students of Hinduism and Sanskrit.