If there is one grand tale that has impacted Asia, it has to be the
Ramayana, the great Indian epic. In this sumptuously illustrated
volume, the author highlights the various southern and
south-eastern Asian traditions and variations of the tale with
nearly a hundred superb watercolour paintings. That this ancient
narrative has adapted itself to multiple art forms is not
surprising, given the diversity of its retellings in both literary
and non-literary forms-oral narratives, dance-dramas, plays, and
more. From India, the Rama tale is presumed to have travelled along
three routes: by land, the northern route took the story from
Punjab and Kashmir into China, Tibet, and East Turkestan; by sea,
the southern route carried the story from Gujarat and South India
into Java, Sumatra, and Malaya; and again by land, the eastern
route delivered the story from Bengal into Burma, Thailand, Laos,
and to some extent, Cambodia and Vietnam. In Indonesia and
Malaysia, the epic has been incorporated into the Islamic
tradition; Theravada Buddhism in Thailand and Cambodia adopted
Hindu divinities from the Rama story into its fold.
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