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  • Ethics of exile in the Ramayana

    Ethics of exile in the Ramayana

    Themes of exile, quest and wandering are prominent in epic literature, at least of the Indo-European tradition.

  • The Setubandha of Pravarasena

    Monkey Army building a stone bridge to cross sea on way to Lanka — Wikimedia Commons (Ms Sarah Welch) The Prakrit languages have a very rich and complex literary history dating back to at least the early centuries AD. As Prof. Andrew Ollett explains – “Like Sanskrit, [Prakrit] was a language of literary intellectual culture, and cut across…