In his famous essay, “Three Hundred Ramayanas,” (1987) AK Ramanujan ascertains the plurality of the Rama katha. While Valmiki, the sovereignty of the “original” Sanskrit text, created in Rama the ...
Guwahati: Satras, a Vaishnavite monastery in Assam were a conscious innovation by Srimanta Sankaradeva in which he made Bhakti-based commune activities and social emancipation verily a mass movement ...