Learn · Performance Traditions of the Mahabharata in Tamil Nadu
Lecture 4 of 20Week 2
The Custodians of the Festival
Prof. Sashikanth Ananthachari and Prof. Rajesh Kumar · IIT Madras
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- Performance Traditions of the Mahabharata in Tamil Nadu, IIT Madras (at NPTEL)
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- CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only.
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All the lectures
- A Brief Introduction to the Mahabharata
- A Brief Introduction to the Mahabharata Festivals of Tamil Nadu
- The Idea of the Chariot
- The Custodians of the Festival
- The Festivals as Total Theatre
- Potturaja and the Anti-War Nature of the Festival
- Kelai Draupadai
- A brief introduction to Koothu as a theatrical form
- Vil Valaippu, or The bending of the bow
- The Marriage ritual of Draupadi
- Subhadra Kalyanam
- Rajasuya Yaagam
- Draupadiyin Thugilum, Parandhamanin Arulum
- Arjuna’s Tapas
- Kichaka Vadham
- Krishnan Thoodu
- Aravan Kalabali
- Karna Moksham
- Pathinettam Por or the Eighteenth Day’s War Dharumarin Pattabhishekam and Ashwamedha Yaagam
- Dharumarin Pattabhishekam and Ashwamedha Yaagam