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Anna Seastrand On Aug 24, 2022, at 1:21 AM, John Brockington via INDOLOGY <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > We are pleased to announce the sixth update of our material on the Oxford > Research Archive, first deposited in January 2016; this update is identified > as July 2022. We do so in order that it can be available for others to > consult even in its present, unfinished state. It can be accessed at the same > location > <http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8df9647a-8002-45ff-b37e-7effb669768b> or > you can find it via the Bodleian Libraries website, under ORA, by looking for > either our surname or its title, "Development and spread of the Rāma > narrative (pre-modern)". > > As before, there are additions, revisions and corrections to the material > throughout. However, areas which have seen the greatest changes are: > > · Within the folder D. Ancillary material and then the folder > “Photographs (JLB), the addition of a number more Rāmāyaṇa-related > photographs and the inclusion of a substantial number of photographs of > various Indian monuments taken over more than fifty years. > > > · Apart from minimal changes to the folder C. Narrative Elements, work > by MB consists mainly of more on the folder F. New Beginnings: an overall > survey of the effects on the traditional portrayal of the VRm’s heroes and > villains when varied supplementary elements now mostly collected into the CE > Bāla and Uttara kāṇḍas were added to the core text, classified as Stage 3 > (JLB 1985). The two books are themselves far from unitary; their diverse > nature sheds light on the development, not only of Stage 3 itself (including > the occasional transformation of the human Rāma into an avatāra of Viṣṇu), > but also of a few puzzling episodes in the so-called ‘core’ books. Six > chapters are planned, with the first three now complete: > 1: Techniques and > structure, including the role of allusions within the narrative > 2: The core > narrative: evidence from three summaries and from the Rāmopākhyāna for its > contents and segmentation > 3: The role of boons > 4: [planned] Establishment > of a Rāghava dynasty > 5: [large part composed] Agastya’s post-victory > narrative, 7,1—34 > 6: [largely incomplete, focusing only on the Ahalyā and > Hanumān episodes] Change of genre and divinisation of the heroes > 7: > additional files presenting supporting material and notes. > > · Work by JLB includes considerable further additions to all the > bibliographic sections of files within B. Bibliographic Inventory, as well as > substantial additions to the data within 10. visual (India). > > > If you are aware of colleagues in other fields (for example Southeast Asian > languages or visual culture) who might be interested, do please pass the > information on to them – and similarly, if any of you have access to suitable > academic lists on which it could be posted, we would be grateful if you would > send it to them. > > As always, we shall be grateful for any comments from anyone who has used the > material. > > With all good wishes > > John and Mary > > > John Brockington > Fellow, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies > Emeritus Professor of Sanskrit, University of Edinburgh > Vice President, International Association of Sanskrit Studies > > Mary Brockington > Fellow, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies > Research Fellow, International Association of Sanskrit Studies > > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__list.indology.info_mailman_listinfo_indology&d=DwICAg&c=009klHSCxuh5AI1vNQzSO0KGjl4nbi2Q0M1QLJX9BeE&r=zFnLd1QYy6yRogNA4PT8PJDVvEw4qBYffPee0Gs6t0Q&m=w-Rh-PwlJgE-PW6grKbWP3BjFKW8Bblb9J2MTNsiyWYmb-OtstsowcyXC-bpI-9i&s=BSUJJHFvWjz3V3GE609alXaX2sdT58lJxc7EfO8wQi8&e= >
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