A Comparative study on the Raghuva??am and the S?bin ?lun
Abstract
The great epic R?m?ya?am is one of the ancient and prominent treatises of the world literature, which flows the origin of Indian culture and civilization. The main objective of this composition is to spread out the human ethics through the incidences of social life. The central character of the R?m?ya?am is R?macandra, the supreme-being or incarnation of the lord Vi??u, who is the son of king Da?aratha of Ayodhy?. Although, by virtue he is authoritative, but all the human feelings and behaviours are clearly expressed through the heroic character R?macandra. The heart-touched character R?ma and life story of R?ma flourished to the common society from the origin text of the R?m?ya?am composed by ??i V?lm?ki. For the reason, the admiration of the whole story and dynamic characters of the R?m?ya?am have a great impact in the midst of common ethnic groups of India as well as South-East Asia. The Raghuva??am was composed by Mah?kavi K?lid?sa, which is originally based on V?lm?kis R?m?ya?am. The story of the Raghuva??am is so renowned in Sanskrit literature, as it is borrowed from the great epic R?m?ya?am. The R?mayan? literature is conventionally transformed into various Oral-traditions and Folk-literatures. Simultaneously in the first part of 14th century, M?dhava Ka??al? had composed the Kath?r?maya?a in Assamese language. With the influence of the Kath?r?m?ya?a, the K?rbi, one of the prominent tribes of Assam, had initiated a great living Oral tradition in K?rbi language on R?makath?, known as the S?bin ?lun, i.e., The Broken Song. Significantly, in the S?bin ?lun, R?macandra is characterized as a very common person of K?rbi society. There royalism of R?ma, who belongs to the Raghu dynasty, is not found here. Therefore, it signifies the socio-cultural transformation of the R?makath? from Indian Classical literature to Ethnic literature. An elaborate study of the diverse manifestations of the R?makath? tradition is essential to identify its significance as well as influences in a society. This research paper is a humble attempt to know about the depiction and integration of the origin story from the main stem of Indian classics to the ethnicity, which inspire for the depth study to identify the interpretation of the traditional folk tales.
