The Ramayana (Volume 1) : a modern translation /

Menon, Ramesh

The Ramayana (Volume 1) : a modern translation / Ramesh Menon - India HarperCollins 2016 - 468 p. - Volume 1. .

Volume 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.

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Rāma (Hindu deity) in literature
Ramayaṇa (Valmiki)
Rama (Hindu deity)
India
Hindu legends
Hindu mythology
Folklore
Epic poetry, Sanskrit

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