Review: Women's Role in Kudiyāpattam by L. S. Rajagopalan

252 N M KANSARA SAMBODHI important changes are also made in the structure of the story Sitä is here the daughter of Rāvana Two Rāvanas, one with ten faces and another with thousand ones are envisaged It was the latter who was destroyed by Sītā Her marvelous acts performed while killing the senior Rävana justify

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एल. एस. राजगोपालन की यह कृति कूडियाट्टम् में स्त्रियों की भूमिका पर है। चाक्यार और नम्बियार परिवारों द्वारा सुरक्षित यह संस्कृत नाट्य-परम्परा मातृवंशीय केरल के समाज में जीवित है। लेखक शक्तिभद्र के आश्चर्यचूडामणि के शूर्पणखांक का विस्तृत वर्णन करते हैं; आधी पुस्तक नंग्यार कूत्तु के श्रीकृष्णचरितम् पर है। L. S. Rajagopalan on women in Kutiyattam, the surviving performance tradition of classical Sanskrit drama kept by Cakyar and Nambiyar families in matrilineal Kerala. He describes the Surpanakha act of Saktibhadra's Ascaryacudamani and devotes half the book to the solo Nangyar Kuttu Srikrsnacaritam.

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