![]() ![]() Because of this, Thomas Coburn, the American scholar who translated our extract above, suggests the Adbhuta is better understood as an aggregated folk tradition than as a polished literary text (1995: 5). ![]() These contain somewhat uneven combinations of narrative and philosophical material which don’t always seem to fit together very well. The Adbhuta Ramayana, literally, ‘the amazing Ramayana’, or ‘the Ramayana of wonders/ of the amazing One’, is a large collection of verses, composed in Sanskrit, which falls into two main parts. Why then does the Adbhuta Ramayana identify Sita with Kali? What do we know about the text? When was it composed? What were its sources? Did it come from a specific South Asian religious tradition? How influential was it? In what areas of South Asia? Why those?
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