The Ramayana
Author: Vālmīki
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2004-05-26
Total Pages: 724
ISBN-13: 9780865476950
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the ancient world's great verse epics is retold in energetic English prose in this sparkling volume.
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Ramayana
Author: William Buck
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2021-06-08
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 0520383389
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn elegant translation of the beloved epic tale of Prince Rama Few works of literature have inspired so vast an audience across so many radically different languages and cultures as the Ramayana, written in Sanskrit over 2,000 years ago by a poet known to us as Valmiki. William Buck has retold the story of Prince Rama—with all its nobility of spirit, courtly intrigue, heroic renunciation, fierce battles, and triumph of good over evil—in a length and with a style that make the great epic accessible without compromising the spirit and lyricism of the original.
The Rámáyan of Válmíki
Author: Vālmīki
Publisher:
Published: 1871
Total Pages: 522
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRamayana
Author: William Buck
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9788120817203
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCompared to the western epics, the Ramayana and Mahabharata are more complete story of Hindu, religious, cultural and social imagination and more exact narration of evolutionary rise of man. In this book, William Buck has succeeded better than anyone else in conveying the spirit of the original.The task of presenting a faithful image of the original text, its metaphysical nuances as well as its chronological sequence the world`s largest epic in a small book is a stupendous task.Mainly as a narration, the version of William Buck will serve as an interesting and complete tale to the English speaking reader. Valmiki was called the Adikavi or first poet of Sanskrit literature and some of his remarkable talent shines forth in the English rendering. The reader will find pleasure in reading it aloud to himself or the others.
The Valmiki Ramayana
Author: Bibek Debroy
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Published: 2017-10-25
Total Pages: 663
ISBN-13: 9387326268
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Valmiki Ramayana remains a living force in the lives of the Indian people. A timeless epic, it recounts the legend of the noble prince Rama and his battle to vanquish the demon king Ravana. Even before he is crowned king of Ayodhya, Rama is exiled to the Dandaka forests where he is accompanied by his beauteous wife Sita and loyal brother Lakshmana. Deep in the jungle, Sita is abducted by Ravana and taken to his island kingdom Lanka, setting into motion a dramatic chain of events that culminates in an epoch-defining war. Filled with adventure and spectacle, the Ramayana is also the poignant story of a family caught up in the conflict between personal duty and individual desires. In Bibek Debroy’s majestic new translation, the complete and unabridged text of the Critical Edition of this beloved epic can now be relished by a new generation of readers.
The Ramayana
Author: Ramesh Menon
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2016-07-10
Total Pages: 479
ISBN-13: 9351775194
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume One of this great epic follows Rama's life through his growing-up years and his exile in the forest to Sita's abduction and Hanuman's leap of faith.Modern scholars claim that the Ramayana was first composed around 300 BC. The epic is called the Adi Kavya, the world's first poem. Ramesh Menon's The Ramayana is a novelist's lush, imaginative rendering, rather than a scholar's translation.
Bālakāṇḍa, Ayodhyākāṇḍa, Araṇyakāṇḍa, and Kiṣkindhākāṇḍa
Author: Vālmīki
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 1024
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKChandrabati’s Ramayan
Author: Chandrabati
Publisher: Zubaan
Published: 2020-01-25
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 8194721873
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChandrabati, the first woman poet in Bangla, lived in the sixteenth century in Mymensingh district in present day Bangladesh. She was also the first poet in the Bangla language to present a retelling of the Ram story from the point of view of Sita. Idolised as a model of marital obedience and chastity in Valmiki’s Ramayan, Chandrabati’s lyrical retelling of Sita’s story offers us a fresh perspective. Written in order to be sung before a non-courtly audience, mainly of womenfolk of rural Bengal, Chandrabati’s Ramayan adds new characters and situations to the story to provide new interpretations of already known events drawing richly on elements of existing genres. Its location in the tales of everyday life has ensured that Chandrabati’s Ramayan lives on in the hearts of village women of modern-day India.
The Rámáyana of Tulsi Dás
Author: Tulasīdāsa
Publisher:
Published: 1883
Total Pages: 670
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Ramayana
Author: R. K. Narayan
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2006-08-29
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 1440623279
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe greatest Indian epic, one of the world's supreme masterpieces of storytelling A Penguin Classic A sweeping tale of abduction, battle, and courtship played out in a universe of deities and demons, The Ramayana is familiar to virtually every Indian. Although the Sanskrit original was composed by Valmiki around the fourth century BC, poets have produced countless versions in different languages. Here, drawing on the work of an eleventh-century poet called Kamban, Narayan employs the skills of a master novelist to re-create the excitement he found in the original. A luminous saga made accessible to new generations of readers, The Ramayana can be enjoyed for its spiritual wisdom, or as a thrilling tale of ancient conflict. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
