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Depending on the methods of counting, as many as three hundred [1] [2] versions of the Indian Hindu epic poem, the Ramayana, are known to exist. The oldest version is generally recognized to be the Sanskrit version attributed to the Padma Purana - Acharya Shri Raviṣeṇ Padmapurāṇa Ravisena Acharya, later on sage Narada, the Mula Ramayana. [3]
Vavilikolanu Subba Rao or Andhra Valmiki or Vaasu Daasa Swami (23 January 1863 – 1 August 1939) was a Sanskrit scholar and a Telugu poet, often known by the epithet Andhra Valmiki. He was first Telugu scholar to translate Sanskrit version of Valmiki Ramayana into Telugu.
Adhyatma Ramayana represents the story of Rama in a spiritual context. The text constitutes over 35% of the chapters of Brahmanda Purana, often circulated as an independent text in the Vaishnavism tradition, [9] and is an Advaita Vedanta treatise of over 65 chapters and 4,500 verses.
An Independent-study Reader in Sanskrit (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003), ISBN 978-1-136-84655-7. Pendyala Venkata Subrahmanya Sastry worte a critical analysis of Ramopakhyana by Errana entitled Ramopakhyanamu-Tadvimarsanamu (1938) in Telugu language, who is one of the authors of Mahabharata. [4]
It is a retelling of the Sanskrit work Adhyatma Ramayana in Kilippattu (bird song) format. [2] [3] Ezhuthachan used the Grantha-based Malayalam script to write his Ramayana, although the Vatteluttu writing system was the traditional writing system of Kerala then. [4] Recitation of Adhyatma Ramayanam Kilippattu is very important in Hindu ...
This version of Ramayana is composed in Maithili poetic language. In this Ramayana the meaning of Sita is said to be " Bhumija " as it is the line ploughed on the earth by a plough. She is also called as presiding goddess of agriculture, Param Vaidehi , Param Janaki , and " Janaanaam Kule Jaata " (born in the family of people), etc. [ 3 ] There ...
The central plot of the Sanskrit Ramayana is followed in the text, with many significant departures in the plot and the characters, influenced by local Odia tradition. The plot of the Ramayana begins with Adi Parba through Dasharatha's efforts of getting a son by holding a yajna. It shows Ayodhya as developed medieval Odia village, strewn with ...
The text and its variants exists in many Indic scripts including Devanagari, Telugu, Malayali, Kannada and Tamil (see Paula Richman, Ramayana Stories in Modern South India: An Anthology, Indiana University Press, pp. 17-40). The above manuscript leaf is in Odiya script found in the eastern state of India named Odisha.