Online Resources

Educational Videos

Domains of Dasara: Navaratri in Mysore

Discovering Sacred Texts: Hinduism

“Rama and the Ramayana: Crash Course World Mythology #27”

Shadow Puppet of Bhima

Tholu Bommalaata: Dance of the Shadow Puppets

Video Productions

Sita Sings the Blues, dir. Nina Paley, 2008. 

The Mahabharata, dir. Peter Brooks, 1989.

Arjuna the Warrior Prince, dir. Arnab Chaudhuri, 2012.

Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama, dir. Yugo Sako, 1992.

Ramayana: The Epic


AudioBooks

The Devi Mahatmya

Video Games

The Durga Puja Mystery

Raji: An Ancient Epic (Nintendo)

Online Sanskrit Training

Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies

Australian National University

Yogic Studies

YouTube Course


Open Access Publications

Shaivism and the Tantric Traditions

Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance

Podcasts

A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler

The Yogic Studies Podcast

The Mahabharata Podcast (Arti Dhand)

New Books in Hindu Studies

Bibliographies

Materials on the Sanskrit Epics

(Courtesy of Brian Pennington and Amy Allocco, Elon University)

SCHOLARLY WORKS

 

Ambedkar, B.R. “Appendix: Rama and Krishna,” in Riddle in Hinduism. 1995.

 

Beck, Brenda. Hidden Paradigms: A South Indian Folk Epic Viewed Through Many Lenses. Toronto: University of Toronto Press (forthcoming 2021).

 

Bulcke, Kamil. Rām Kathā Utppatti Aur Vikās. (The Ram Story: Origin And Development.)

 

De Clercq, Eva. 2009. “The Jaina Harivaṃśa and Mahābhārata Tradition– A Preliminary 

Survey.” In Parallels and Comparisons: Proceedings of the Fourth Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Puranas, edited by Petteri Koskikallio, 399–421. Zagreb: Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. 

 

-----,  tr., Svayambhudeva's The Life of Padma / Paumacariu (Harvard Murty Series), vol. 1 (translation of a Jain version of the Rama narrative).

 

Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter, & Sears, Laurie. Boundaries of the Text: Epic Performances in South and Southeast Asia. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Center for South & Southeast Asian Studies, 1991.

 

-----. “Standing in Cement: Ravana on the Chattisgarhi Plains” in South Asian Folklore in Transition, edited by Frank Korom, 58-74. Routledge: 2018.

 

Gandhi, Supriya. 2014. “Retelling the Rāma Story in Persian Verse: Masīḥ Pānīpatī’s Mas̱navī-yi

Rām va Sītā.” In No Tapping Around Philology: A Festschrift in Honor of Wheeler McIntosh Thackston Jr.’s 70th Birthday, edited by Alireza Korangy and Daniel J. Sheffield, 309–24. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.

 

Keshavmurthy, Prashant. 2018. “Translating Rāma as a Proto-Muḥammadan Prophet: Masīḥ’s

Mas̱navī-i Rām va Sītā.” Numen 65 (1): 1–27.

 

Morgenstein Fuerst, Ilyse R. “A Muslim Bhagavadgītā: ‘Abd Al-Rahman Chishti’s Interpretative Translation and Its Implications,” Journal of South Asian Religious History Vol. 1 (2015)

 

Narayanan, Vasudha. “Who is the Strong-Armed Monkey who Churns the Ocean of Milk?” UDAYA: Journal of Khmer Studies, 11, 3-28 (2014).

 

-----. “The Hero at Play: Depictions of the Govardhana-Līlā story in Khmer art.” Journal of Vaishnava Studies. Vol. 23, no. 2, 131-147 (2015).

 

Pathmanesan Sanmugeswaran, Krishantha Fedricks, and Justin W. Henry. “Reclaiming Ravana in Sri Lanka: Ravana’s Sinhala Buddhist Apotheosis and Tamil Responses.” In Journal of South Asian Studies (2019), 796-812.

 

Pauwels, Heidi. The Goddess as Role Model: Sita and Radha in Scripture and on the Screen.

Plau, Adrian . "'Listen to the Story': Narrative and Song in Ramcand Balak's Sitacarit, a Jain Ramayana in Braj Bhasa," Sikh Formations 2019.

 

Rajagopal, Arvind. “From Mandir to Mahamari: Watching Ramayana in Turbulent Times.”

https://scroll.in/article/957801/from-mandir-to-mahamari-watching-the-ramayan-in-turbulent-times

 

Rambelli, Franco. “Re-positioning the Gods: ‘Medieval Shintō’ and the Origins of Non-Buddhist Discourses on the Kami,” Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie  Année 16 (2006): 305-325.

 

Richman, Paula. “Why Can’t a Shudra Perform Asceticism?”” in The Ramayana Revisited. (Bowdoin E-book).

 

Saunders, Jennifer B. Imagining Religious Communities: Transnational Hindus and their Narrative Performances, ch. 6 (Oxford University Press, 2019).

 

Thapar, Romila.  Śakuntalā: Texts, Readings, Histories.  London: Anthem, 2000.

 

Truschke, Audrey. 2020. “A Padshah like Manu: Political Advice for Akbar in the Persian

Mahābhārata.” Philological Encounters 5 (2): 112–33.

 

Wadley, Susan. Raja Nal and the Goddess: The North Indian Epic Dhola in Performance. Indiana University Press, 2004.

 

-----. Damayanti and Nala: The Many Lives of a Story. DC Press, 2010.

 

 

LITERARY WORKS/RETELLINGS

 

Bandyopadhyay, Sibaji and Sankha Banerjee. Vyasa: The Beginning (A Graphic Novel)

 

Devakaruni, Chitra Banerjee. Palace of Illusions  (novel that reimagines the Mahabharata story from Draupadi's point of view). 

 

Devakaruni, Chitra Banerjee. Rama-katha from Sita's perspective

 

Jagat Singh Ramayana at the British Library, Mewar, Rajasthan 17th Century.  https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/ramayana  (specifically, http://www.bl.uk/turning-the-pages/?id=a394c2a0-ee97-11dc-95ff-0800200c9a66&type=book)

 

Menen, Aubrey. The Ramayana. Praeger, 1972.

 

Nair, Karthika Until the Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata. Harper Collins, India, 2015 (poetic retelling of the Mahabharata from the perspectives of various characters).

 

Vyam, Subhash. Bhimayana: incidents in the life of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (graphic novel with Gond illustrations that offers an alternative epic narrative that still keeps within the cultural framework of the Ramayana).