Ramopakhyana - The Story of Rama in the Mahabharata : A Sanskrit Independent-Study Reader

Preface ix Development ix Acknowledgements xi Introduction 1(1) Divine, Historical, and Spiritual Dimensions of the Story of Rama, and its Place in the Mahabharata 1(26) The Story of Rama 1(2) The Human Dimension 2(1) The Divine Dimension 3(1) The Ramopakhyana 3(1) Textual Limits to the Divine Dimension 4(4) Limits in the Ramayana 5(1) Limits in the Ramopakhyana 6(2) Rama and Sita's Humanity 8(3) Human Emotions, Intelligence, etc. 8(1) Rama's Ethics 8(1) The mutilation of Surpanakha 8(1) The slaying of Valin 9(1) The rejection of Sita 10(1) Moral Versus Mundane Factors in Sita's Rejection 11(3) Moral Revisionism in Narrative Adaptation 14(3) Parallels to Sita's Case 15(1) Comparison of Yudhisthira's and Rama's Exiles 16(1) The Historical Basis 17(2) The Monkeys 17(2) The Spiritual Dimension 19(8) Various Classes of Beings 19(1) Siddhis 19(5) Transcending and Enlightenment 24(3) Structure and Content of the Present Edition of the Ramopakhyana as an Independent-study Sanskrit Reader 27(38) Text in Devanagari and Roman 27(1) Analyzed Sandhi 28(1) Inflectional identification 28(3) Nominals 29(1) Inflectional identification of nouns 29(1) Verbs 30(1) Inflectional identification of verbs 30(1) Glossary 31(27) Stem 31(1) Lexical identification 32(1) Noun 33(1) Pronoun 34(1) Adjective 35(1) Number 35(1) Particle 35(1) Lexical identification of participles 35(1) Adverb, particle, etc. 36(1) Verb 36(2) Compound 38(1) Classification 38(3) Labeling 41(1) Identification of compounds 42(1) Derivation 42(1) General conventions 43(1) Simple derivations 43(1) Primary nominal derivates 44(1) Secondary nominal derivates 45(2) Compound derivation 47(1) Compound-gloss (vigraha-vakya) 48(1) Dvandva 48(1) Karmadharaya 49(1) Dvigu 49(1) Tatpurusa 50(1) Dvitiya through saptami tatpurusa 50(1) Upapada-tatpurusa 50(1) Nan-tatpurusa 51(1) Gati-tatpurusa 51(2) Pradi-tatpurusa 53(1) Bahuvrihi 53(1) Ambiguities in compound derivation 54(1) Sasthi-tatpurusa versus upapada-tatpurusa 55(1) Numerical compounds 56(2) Sanskrit prose 58(3) Notes 61(2) Translation 63(2) Suggestions for Use 65(6) Suggestions for students 66(3) Serious independent study 66(1) Devanagari lesson 67(1) Sandhi lesson 67(1) Casual independent study 68(1) Advanced independent study 68(1) Advanced study and research 68(1) Nilakantha 68(1) Panini 68(1) Semantic and Lexical research 69(1) Syntactic research 69(1) Suggestions for instructors 69(2) Ramopakhyana 71(804) Mahabharata 3.257 73(15) Mahabharata 3.258 88(20) Mahabharata 3.259 108(51) Mahabharata 3.260 159(20) Mahabharata 3.261 179(60) Mahabharata 3.262 239(46) Mahabharata 3.263 285(49) Mahabharata 3.264 334(80) Mahabharata 3.265 414(32) Mahabharata 3.266 446(77) Mahabharata 3.267 523(56) Mahabharata 3.268 579(41) Mahabharata 3.269 620(14) Mahabharata 3.270 634(30) Mahabharata 3.271 664(30) Mahabharata 3.272 694(29) Mahabharata 3.273 723(33) Mahabharata 3.274 756(32) Mahabharata 3.275 788(72) Mahabharata 3.276 860(15) Glossary of Proper Names 875(30) Genealogy 905(2) Rama's Genealogy (258.6-10) 905(1) Ravana's Genealogy (258.11-259.9) 905(2) Word Index 907(30) List of Abbreviations and Morphological and Lexical Identifiers 937(2) Bibliography 939(6) Introductory Sanskrit Textbooks 939(1) Further Sanskrit Instruction 939(1) Dictionaries 939(1) Reference Grammar 940(1) Paninian Grammar 940(1) Critical Editions of the Epics 941(1) English Translations of the Epics 941(1) Research on the Story of Rama 941(4) Other References 945