Ramopakhyama: the story of Rama in the Mahabharata ; an independent-study reader in Sanskrit

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Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Divine, historical, and spiritual dimensions of the story of Rama, and its place in the Mahabharata -- A The story of Rama -- B The Ramopakhyana -- C Textual limits to the divine dimension -- D Rama and Sita's humanity -- E Moral versus mundane factors in Sita's rejection -- F Moral revisionism in narrative adaptation -- G The historical basis -- H The spiritual dimension -- Part II: Structure and content of the present edition of the Ramopakhyana as an independent-study Sanskrit reader -- A Text in Devanagari and Roman -- B Analyzed sandhi -- C Inflectional identification -- D Glossary -- E Sanskrit prose -- F Notes -- G Translation -- Part III: Suggestions for use -- A Suggestions for students -- B Suggestions for instructors -- Ramopakhyana -- Glossary of proper names -- Genealogy -- Word index -- List of abbreviations and morphological and lexical Identifiers -- Bibliography.