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100			_aMenon, Ramesh
245			_aThe Ramayana (Volume 1) : _ba modern translation / _cRamesh Menon
260			_aIndia _bHarperCollins _c2016
300			_a468 p.
365			_aINR _b1599.00 ( Set of two volumes).
440			_vVolume 1.
500			_aVolume 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.
650			_aRāma (Hindu deity) in literature
650			_aRamayaṇa (Valmiki)
650			_aRama (Hindu deity)
650			_aIndia
650			_aHindu legends
650			_aHindu mythology
650			_aFolklore
650			_aEpic poetry, Sanskrit
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