Naslov
Rāmāyaṇa and Dasarathajātaka

Autori
Ježić, Mislav

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
On the Growth and Composition of the Sanskrit Epics and Purāṇas. Relationship to kāvya. Social and Economic Context. Proceedings of the Fifth Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Purāṇas

Urednik/ci
Ježić, Mislav ; Andrijanić, Ivan ; Sellmer, Sven

Izdavač
Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti (HAZU) ; Dev Publishers & Distributors

Grad
Zagreb : New Delhi

Godina
2016

Raspon stranica
63-116

ISBN
978-953-347-105-1

Ključne riječi
Rāmāyaṇa, Dasarathajātaka, Vessantarajātaka, Rāmopakhyāna, Kālidāsa's Raghuvaṃśa, three stages in the text history of the Rāmāyaṇa, book 2, moral drama, books 3-6, fairy tale, books 1 and 7, additional stories

Sažetak
The paper complements the previous paper on Saramā and Hanumant, where the author argues that books 3-6 of the Rāmāyaṇa have the complete structure of a fairy tale exactly fitting into the scheme of Vladimir Propp, and are therefore different in genre from book 2. The author has shown there that the plot of this fairy tale is based on the Vala myth. Here he elaborates the argument that book 2, completed with a finale similar to that found at the end of book 6, existed as an independent and complete story, which directly inspired the version of the Rāma story in the Dasarathajātaka, and indirectly the story of the Vessantarajātaka, before it was expanded with the interpolated extensive fairy tale about the Rākṣasas and monkeys, the abduction of Sītā and her liberation. Book 2 as a moral drama with Rāma as a paragon of morality may have inspired the Buddhists to use the plot both directly, but with a restricted purpose, and indirectly, but with a gamut of shaded allusions and implicit critical polemics, in the Jātakas. This must have happened before the 2nd c. B.C., when these Jātakas appeared on the reliefs of stūpas. Thereafter, in the period of the Śuṅgas and their successors, at the next stage of the growth of Rāmāyaṇa, this moral legend may have been expanded with the narrative in books 3-6, where Rāmā is no more a paragon of virtue, but the hero of a fairy tale. This expansion made this epic story one of the most attractive and widespread works in the world literature. This stage of the Rāmāyaṇa is clearly reflected in the Rāmopakhyāna version of the Rāma story in the Mahābhārata. The third stage, after books 1 and 7 were added to the Rāmāyaṇa, is reflected in the Kālidāsa's epic Raghuvaṃśa around 400 A.D. The contribution of this paper is the extrapolation of the first stage of the epic from the text of the second stage (so far considered to be the oldest stage), and establishing the chronology of stages on the basis of parallel texts in Pāli and Sanskrit literature.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija, Povijest umjetnosti, Religijske znanosti (interdisciplinarno polje)

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