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Ravana and his Tribes

By G. Ramadas

Vol. 5 · No. 2June - 1929pp. 281–299English

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  • “In my two.articles on the Aboriginal Names and the Aboriginal Tribes in the Ramayana, an attempt has been made to elucidate the language and the customs of the Vinaras and the Raksgasas and the former have been identiffied with the Savaras and other Mindari tribes of the modern times.”
  • “From these evidences it 15 confirmed that Rivana had one head and two arms like any human being.”
  • “Thus from the statements contained in the epic about the charac- teristics of the Raksasa clan, it is shown how those customs are followed now by the Kui tribes now living 1 the jungles एवं the Eastern Ghats.”

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  1. Thurston’s Castes and Tribes, vol, 111, p. 405
  2. The Vilmiki Rimiyana edited and published by T. R. Krishnamacharya of the Madhva Vilas Book Depot, Kumhakonam

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Vol. 5 · No. 2
173–181The Sacrificial Wheel taught in the BhagavadgitaJ. Otto Schrader182–187Picture ShowmenAnanda Kentish Coomaraswamy188–218Fine ArtsP. K. Acharya218–224Some Pandya Kings of the Thirteenth CenturyV. R. Ramachandra Dikshitar224–228The Origin of the Varman Dynasty of East BengalDhirendra Chandra Ganguly229–236The Extent of Harsavardhanas EmpireRamesh Chandra Majumdar236–243YagesvaraA. Venkatasubbiah243–248Further Researches into the Antiquity of the VedasV. H. Vader248–253The so-called Indo-Aryan InvasionEdward J. Thomas253–260Indo-Aryan Invasion of India Not a MythC. V. Vaidya260–273The Date of ZoroasterJainath Pati274–281On some fiscal terms occurring in the Ancient Indian Land grantsU. N. Ghoshal281–299Ravana and his TribesG. RamadasCurrent article299–325Indian Society as pictured in the MrcchakatikaRadha Govinda Basak325–332The Candidas-ProblemMrinal Das Gupta333–341Notes on DravidianL. V. Ramaswami Aiyar341–347Mr C U Wills on the Sambalpur AtharangarhL. P. Pandeya Sharma347–348A Mythical Commentary on Saradatanayas BhavaprakasaK. S. Ramaswami Sastri349–354The Sinhalese Etymological DictionaryD. B. Jayatilaka354–355Some notes on the TattvasamgrahaLouis de La Vallée Poussin355–356Ravanas Lanka located in Central IndiaJogendra Chandra Ghosh356–357Was Nahapana a JainaKamta Prasad Jain358–360Meyer on Manu VIII 235-236Batakrishna Ghosh361–383ReviewsSushil Kumar De, U. N. Ghoshal, Batakrishna Ghosh, Giuseppe Tucci384–389Select Contents of Oriental Journals390–391Bibliographical Notes

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