AI 中文总结
该研究以《摩诃婆罗多》《罗摩衍那》的人物网络为对象，考察男女人物的结构角色差异，发现男性核心节点占比更高、移除后破坏更大，且两部史诗女性跨社区参与度有别。
AI 中文摘要
《摩诃婆罗多》和《罗摩衍那》是古印度两部主要的梵语史诗。此前的网络分析显示，它们的人物网络存在显著的结构相似性，同时也存在与各自不同叙事组织形式相符的差异。基于这些发现，我们研究了两部文本中男性和女性人物的表征及结构位置，尤其在考虑男女人物数量存在显著不平衡的情况下，考察性别在连通性、显著性、社区参与度和对网络凝聚力的贡献方面是否存在系统差异。我们采用旨在识别连接网络不同区域的人物、评估人物移除的结构后果的方法，分析性别模式是否在两部史诗中保持一致，还是反映此前已确定的不同叙事结构。研究发现，在两部史诗中，男性人物在高度核心和结构重要的节点中占比显著更高，针对性移除核心男性人物会造成大得多的网络破坏；但在考虑基线结构位置后，男女人物移除的影响几乎没有残留差异。此外，在选定的Girvan-Newman划分下，《摩诃婆罗多》中的女性人物比《罗摩衍那》中的女性人物表现出更强的跨社区参与度。
英文摘要
The Mahabharata and the Ramayana constitute the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. Previous network analysis revealed substantial structural similarities between their character networks, alongside differences consistent with their contrasting forms of narrative organisation. Building upon these findings, we investigate the representation and structural positions of male and female characters within the two texts. In particular, we examine whether the genders differ systematically in their connectivity, prominence, community participation, and contribution to network cohesion, while accounting for the considerable imbalance between the numbers of male and female characters. We employ methods designed to identify characters who connect otherwise distinct regions of the networks and to assess the structural consequences of character removal. Through these analyses, we ask whether gendered patterns are consistent across the two epics or instead reflect the different narrative structures previously identified. In so doing, we find that male characters are considerably more prevalent among highly central and structurally consequential nodes in both epics, and targeted removal of central male characters produces substantially greater network disruption. However, once baseline structural position is taken into account, we find little residual difference in deletion effects between male and female characters. Furthermore, under selected Girvan-Newman partitions, we find that female characters in the Mahabharata exhibit greater cross-community participation than female characters in the Ramayana.
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