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Early Hindi epic poetry in Gwalior: beginnings and continuities in the Rāmāyan of Vishnudas
- Abstract:
- The Hindi poet Vishnudas produced a Hindi version of the Ramayana in 1442 at the court of the Gwalior ruler Dungarendra Singh. This, the earliest known Hindi Ramayana encoded aspects of the political and cultural of mid-fifteenth century Gwalior while offering us a case study of vernacularization in the same period. The chapter shows that Vishnudas’ epic was intended for a Rajput court (with an emphasis on courts and battles), and through a comparison with Valmiki’s Rāmāyaṇa, demonstrates that while Vishnudas was familiar with the Sanskrit text, it was probably through oral retellings rather than the written text. It further suggests that Vishnudas’ rendering was the textualization of an oft-performed vernacular oral version of the Ramayana.
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- Published
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199450664.003.0013
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- Oxford University Press
- Host title:
- After Timur Left: Culture and Circulation in Fifteenth-Century North India
- Pages:
- 365-402
- Chapter number:
- 13
- Place of publication:
- Oxford / New Delhi
- Publication date:
- 2014-10-13
- Edition:
- 1
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- 9780199085019
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- 9780199450664
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- 2014
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