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Three Hundred Rāmāyaṇas is a scholarly essay that summarizes the history of the Rāmāyaṇa and its spread across India and Asia over a period of 2,500 years or more. . It seeks to demonstrate factually how the story of Rama has undergone numerous variations while being transmitted across different languages, societies, geographical regions, religions, and historical perio
The Ramayana (/ r ɑː ˈ m ɑː j ə n ə /; [1] [2] Sanskrit: रामायणम्, romanized: Rāmāyaṇam [3]), also known as Valmiki Ramayana, as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics of Hinduism known as the Itihasas, the other ...
African Hindu Monastery in Ghana is the first Hindu Monastery in Africa. Mauritius is the only African Union country where Hinduism is the dominant religion, with about half of the Mauritian population as followers in 2011. [1] Hinduism is the second largest religion in Réunion (6.7%) [2] and Seychelles (5.4%). [3] [4]
Rama slays Shambuka. Illustration from a Mughal miniature of the Ramayana. Shambuka (Sanskrit: शम्बूक, IAST: śambūka) is a character in some editions of the Ramayana. Some say that the character and his story are an interpolation which is not found in the original Valmiki Ramayana but in a later addition called Uttara Kanda.
Kakabhushundi was originally a member of the Shudra class of Ayodhya. [4] A zealous devotee of the deity Shiva, he held the deity Vishnu and Vaishnavas in contempt, despite his guru's efforts to discourage him from this mindset.
The first South African Hindu temple was built in 1869. [29] [30] As the "free" Hindu community prospered, more temples were built in Durban, Pietermaritzburg, Port Elizabeth, Johannesburg and Pretoria. However, given the Hindus in South Africa came from different regions of India and spoke different languages, the temples and social life among ...
Ramayana reached Laos much later than Cambodia and Thailand which caused the loss of its original Hindu influence and affected local adaptation. [2] Similar to some Malay versions of the Hikayat Seri Rama , the epic has lost the association with Hinduism and is instead considered a Jataka tale (the Dasaratha Jataka ), a previous lifetime of the ...
Sri Lankan Hindus Hindu temple festival in Colombo in 1900s. Total population 2,561,299 (2012) 12.6% of its total population Religions Hinduism Shaivism (majority) Vaishnavism and Shaktism (minority) Scriptures Ramayana and Vedas Languages Old Tamil and Sanskrit (sacred) Tamil (majority) and Sinhala (minority) Hinduism by country Africa Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi ...