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Indian epic poetry is the epic poetry written in the Indian subcontinent, traditionally called Kavya (or Kāvya; Sanskrit: काव्य, IAST: kāvyá).The Ramayana and the Mahabharata, which were originally composed in Sanskrit and later translated into many other Indian languages, and the Five Great Epics of Tamil literature and Sangam literature are some of the oldest surviving epic ...
Araṇya-Kāṇḍa, or The Forest Episode, is the third book of the epic poem of Ramayana. It is also found in the Rāmcharitmānas. It follows the legend of Rama through his fourteen-year exile in the forest, joined by his wife and his brother. [1] Rama overcomes challenges and demons by upholding standards of behavior. [2]
Sita Banbas or Sita ban bas (Sita's Exile) is an Urdu play by Agha Hashar Kashmiri. It is based on the Hindu Ramayana . Kashmiri originally sold the play to a local Raja in Allahabad and it was eventually published in 1928, [ 1 ] and it was later published in Hindustani .
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
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 ...
The original Ramayana arrived to Southeast Asia from South India along with Hinduism, but its retelling there suggests Buddhist influence. The exact time when was Ramayana introduced to Cambodia is unknown, however, the earliest mentioning of the epic dated to 7th century according to a stone inscription at Veal Kantel, Stueng Treng. Based on ...
Gujarat - The Tulsi-Krta Ramayana is a Gujarati adaptation of Tulsidas' Ramcharitamanas in the 17th century, by the poet Premanand Swami. The Giradhara Ramayana is also a prominent retelling of Ramayana in Gujarati by the 18th-century poet Giradhara Gosvami. Jammu and Kashmir – The Kashmiri Ramavatara Charita was written in the 19th century.
The characters of the Hindu epic Ramayana such as Lakshmana, Shatrughna, Bharata, and Vibhishana are also asserted by the text to be aspects of Rama. [12] The Upanishad adds that goddesses such as Saraswati (the goddess of learning) and Durga (a fierce form of Mahadevi ) are manifestations of Rama, the supreme truth and reality, symbolized as ...