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the Vedic-Brahmanic versions. If a legend or narrative has to preserve its living and inspiring appeal and influence over centuries, it has got to be dynamic and responsive to the changes in the ideals, tastes, norms of behaviour, mores and traditions of the people. Most of the numerous significant developments in the Rāma-narrative throughout the more than two thousand years of its existence would find adequate explanation in the sociological, religious, cultural and ethical changes extending over that period.
References
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Caupannamahāparisacariya- Klaus Brühn, 1954.
The Rāmāyaṇa Version of Silācārya (ABORI, 36, 1-2, 1955, 46-53)—V. M, Kulkarni.
Rāmāyaṇa in Jain Literature -(unpublished Ph. D. thesis) – V. M. Kulkarni.
The Origin and Development of the Rāma Story in Jain Literature (JOIB, 9, 2, 1959, 189–204; 9, 3, 284-304)–V. M. Kulkarni.
Caupannamahāpurisacariyam (=Prakrit Text Society Series, No. 3)-ed. A. M. Bhojak, Introduction by Klaus Brühn, 1961.
A Critical Study of the Paumacariya of Vimalasuri -(unpublished Ph. D. thesis, University of Bombay, 1962)-P. M. Upadhye.
Paumacariyam-Part I (=Prakrit Text Society=Series, No. 6) -ed. Muni Punyavijaya, Introduction by V. M. Kulkarni, 1962.
Rama-kathā (in Hindi)-Camil Bulcke, 1962.
