[INDOLOGY] Lav-Kuś Kāṇḍ

[Tyler Williams]

Dear Aaron (if I may),

There is, to my knowledge, little to no writing on this, so the following
are the most basic of leads (and I'm afraid may not be that helpful) but
here goes:

You may already know that the earliest textual history of the
*Rāmacaritamānas* was published by Mataprasad Gupta in his *Tulasīdās : eka
samālocanātmak adhyayan *(1942); he of course doesn't mention the
*Lavakuśakāṇḍ*.

Imre Banga at Oxford has recently been revisiting the textual history of
the *Rāmacaritamānas*; he may have some leads.

Biographical and bibliographical information for the scholar and translator
Pandit Ramanarayan Pandey may provide some leads; he edited one of the
editions containing the *Lavakuśakāṇḍ *and was incidentally a prolific
translator into Avadhi/Hindi from Bengali.

On that eastern connection, the *Lava-Kuśa *narrative enjoys wider
circulation in Bengal and Orissa than it does in Avadh; though I'm only
speculating on a possible connection here, you may want to look at William
Smith's “Variants of the Lavakuśopākhyāna” In *Categorization and
Interpretation.*

All best for the search,
Tyler Williams
UChicago


On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 3:13 PM Aaron Sherraden via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear list members,
>
> I am curious about the *Lav-Kuś Kāṇḍ* that appears in some editions of
> the *Rāmcaritmānas *(e.g., I have personally seen it in the 1969 Śikṣā
> Granthāgār edition and in R.C. Prasad's translation done through Motilal
> Banarsidass; I'm sure there are others).  The history of this curious part
> of the text has so far eluded me and I'm hoping that this list can steer me
> in the right direction.  I would be grateful for any suggestions on how to
> find out more about this section's relationship to the larger text.
>
> Best wishes,
> Aaron
>
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