Hindi Studies
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Item The Symbol of Jātaka Stories in Indian Buddhist Art(2013) Hewawitanagamage, U.R.Jātaka Stories have been played a significant role for a long period of time in the field of Buddhist art of India. When these narratives came to the hands of Indian artists, then one of the excellent art traditions prevailed in various forms in the field of Indian art. Oral tradition of the Jātaka narratives converted into new art tradition i.e. carvings and paintings in which Monoscenic, Synoptic, Conflated, Sequential, Continuous and Network narratives can be seen. This article deals with the fact that how Indian artists have converted the tradition of narrative telling and listening into a tradition of carvings and paintings, a form of reading and viewing, after which religious communication has reached a new era.Item The Tradition of Indian Folk Tales and Buddhist Jātaka Tales('Vichār', Semi Annual Contextual Research Journal, 2013) Hewawitanagamage, U.R.This paper mainly deals with the narrative tradition of the Indian sub-continent. Although the Jātaka tales are considered as tales belonging to Buddhism, according to the opinion of some scholars these are considered as folklore of India. By the way, this article throws a light on the evolution of the tradition of Indian Folk Tales. Further showing how far they have moderated and mixed with the Buddhist Jātaka tales in the context of religious edification after the considerable period of time of Buddha's parinirvāna. The 'Karma concept' is considered as the central point of Buddhist philosophy. However, the discussion of this concept is found in the tradition of Indian folk tales as well. We should discuss this further, about how the Karma concept became included within the folk tales of the tribal people who are living in the dense forests.