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Anvesa: The Epics and the North East

by Shrutidhara Chakravarty, Sujata Purkayastha

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With a view to find out the influences of the Vedas, the epics and the puranas on the society, culture and literature of North East India, the Department of Sanskrit, Gauhati University has taken up a project under special Assistance programme of the University grants Commission, New Delhi at the level of Department Research support-I from the year 2011 for five years.

As a part of the said project the Department of Sanskrit, Gauhati University has been organising a seminar every year on various aspects of the project. In the year 2013 on 25 and 26th of March, a seminar was held on the topic Influence of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata on culture and literature of North East India.

The present book is an out come of the deliberations of the said seminar. It consists of twenty two scholarly papers, which were presented in the seminar.

Contents: 1. The influence of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata on culture and literature of North-East India/Rita Chattopadhyay. 2. The Saptakanda Ramayan : an Assamese version of Valmiki’s epic/Maitreyee Bora. 3. The epics and the marriage songs of Barak Valley (pre-nuptial)/Sujata Purkayastha.4. Epic influence on the Assamese Manasa Kavyas/Manjula Devi. 5. A re-evaluation of Ahimsa as treated in the Mahabharata: its modern perspective/Hiran Sarmah. 6. The Mahabharata: connecting cultures, creating tradiations/Paromita Das. 7. Manipur and the Mahabharata cultural topography and its sacred history/Rena Laisram. 8. A discourse upon Manipuri Ramayana and Ramakatha in the Binsupriya Manipuri Community/Snigdha Das Roy. 9. Prevalence of Rama-Katha on Bodo folk tradition/Basanta Kumar Dev Goswami. 10. Influence of the two great Indian epics on songs of Dr. Bhupen Hazarika/Kalyani Goswami. 11. The influence of the Ramayana on Assamese literature with special reference to Madhava Kandali’s Ramayana /Dipti Sarmah Acharyya. 12. Mamoni Raisom Goswami and the Ramayana connecting the unconnected/Sudeshna Bhattacharjya. 13. Translation of Mahabharata into Assamese in the Vaisnavite period/Jagadish Sarma. 14. Influence of the Mahabharata on the works of Ramasarasvati the Vyasa of Assam/Binima Buzarbaruah. 15. The impact of the Ramayana on Assamese lyrical poetry/Arcchana Puzari, Gitanjali Hazarika. 16. Influence of Ramayana in the oral tradition of Assam with reference to the proverbs and riddles/Ranjita Goswami. 17. Some observations of the Ramayanic influences on the Kusan Dances of Assam/Bagmita Sandilya. 18. Influence of the Mahabharata on the folk culture of Assam/Bhagawan Sarma. 19. Sabin Alun, the Karbi Ramayana: an example of influence of Sanskrit literature on the Karbis/Dilip Kumar Kalita. 20. Influence of the Ramayana on the performing art of Assam/Krishnakali Bhattacharya. 21. Influence of the Mahabharata on Bhaktiviveka of Bhattadeva/Shrutidhara Chakravarty.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Shrutidhara Chakravarty

Shrutidhara Chakravarty did her B.A. (honours in Sanskrit) in 1979 from Cotton College, Guwahati, securing high first class. She did M.A. in the year 1983 from the Department of Sanskrit, Gauhati University, Guwahati, and stood first class first. She did her Ph.D. from the same university in the year 1992. In 1985 she joined as Lecturer in the Department of Sanskrit, Rangia College, Rangia. In 1988 she joined the Department of Sanskrit, Gauhati University, as a Lecturer. Since 1996 she is serving the said Department at the capacity of a Reader. Apart from teaching in the M.A. and M.Phil. level and supervising Ph.D. programmes, she has authored several research papers, which have been published in various national and international journals. She has attended the International Conference on Sanskrit and related Studies, held at Krakow, Poland in the year 1993 and the 13th World Sanskrit Conference at Edinburgh, U.K. in 2006. She did a certificate course on German language from the Institute of German Language, Guwahati in 1994. She attended the 28th Study Session on Human Rights at Strasbourg, France, in 1997. She simultaneously completed at Strasbourg, France, an intensive training course for University teaching and research in Human Rights, in 1997. In the same year she completed an Internship Programme of the Centre for Human Rights at the United Nations Office at Geneva, Switzerland, with scholarship from the European Union.