Scholars of early India, as well as of the Ramayana, generally agree that the Lanka in the Ramayana is not modern Sri Lanka, but is a different place of that name somewhere in central India -- look up the map in the Schwarzberg atlas on dsal.uchicago.edu -- the map on epic geography, and look up Lanka.
And then, this is depressing, try persuading your South Asian origin students -- Indians and Sri Lankans -- about this ...
Scholars of early India, as well as of the Ramayana, generally agree that the Lanka in the Ramayana is not modern Sri Lanka, but is a different place of that name somewhere in central India -- look up the map in the Schwarzberg atlas on dsal.uchicago.edu -- the map on epic geography, and look up Lanka.
ReplyDeleteAnd then, this is depressing, try persuading your South Asian origin students -- Indians and Sri Lankans -- about this ...