ISBN10: 8170172519, ISBN13: 9788170172512, [publisher: Abhinav, New Delhi] Hardcover Contents Prologue/Kapila Vatsyayan. Preface/Lokesh Chandra. Willem Frederik Stutterheim (1892 1942) C.D. Paliwal. From his daughter. Foreword/W.F. Stutterheim. 1. Rama in literature and folklore. 2. The Malayan legend of Rama. 3. The Javanese Rama legend. 4. The origin of the Indonesian deviations. 5. Rama legends and the epic. 6. Rama in plastic arts. 7. The Rama reliefs of Lara Jongran. 8. The Rama reliefs of Panataran. 9. Stylistic comparison. 10. Rama reliefs on the Visnu temple at Deogarh. 11. Remarks on plates added for comparison. 12. Notes list of literature cited in the text and notes. 12. Abbreviations. Index. The work first published in 1925 in the series Der Indische Kulturkreis in Einzeldarstellungen has been considered a classic but has not been alas easily accessible to the English reading public. Also for long the work has been out of print. With the publication of the English translation many new vistas of exploration will immediately open up. It is remarkable that despite the paucity of published material the comparative absence of structural linguistic models for the study of languages and theoretical paradigms the late Professor Stutterheim employs the tools of structural linguistic analysis comparative literature and historical reconstruction. This is a far more challenging task than descriptive archaeology and stylistic analysis. Fundamental to this is his ...