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The Journal of Hindu Studies 2008 1(1-2):77-92; doi:10.1093/jhs/hin006
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Theologising the Inaugural Verse: Slesa Reading in Ramayana Commentary

Ajay K. Rao


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In full-length commentaries from the early second millennium, intellectuals from the Srivaisnava community of South India recast the Ramayana within the frame of a shared metaphysics oriented towards the paramount overlordship of the god Visnu. By employing innovative strategies and incorporating the performative modes of temple oratory, these intellectuals sought to transform the paradigmatic exemplar of Sanskrit literary culture into a soteriological work within the conceptual categories of Sanskrit aesthetics. This paper examines the procedures and purposes of this hermeneutic project as evident in the sixteenth-century commentary of Govindaraja.


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