Hikayat Seri Rama: Establishing the source

• Main Authors: Rajantheran, Muniandy, Maniam, Krishanan, Kandasamy, Silllalee S., Samuel, Samikkanu Jabamoney Ishak
• Format: Article
• Published: Primrose Hall Publishing Group 2019
• Subjects: PM Hyperborean, Indian, and Artificial languages; PN Literature (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/23693/; https://www.ijicc.net/images/vol7iss6/7624_Rajantheran_2019_E_R.pdf
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

Purpose of the study: The main aim of this paper is to establish the Tamil literary sources of the Hikayat Seri Rama. Various recensions of the Hikayat Seri Rama demonstrate the close identity between one text and the other which would seem to indicate that all these texts were apparently derived fr...