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The Ramayana is always a fascinating study. This Adi Kavya coming from the pen of one of India's greatest poets has exercised a very powerful influence on the life and thought of millions of people of India over the ages. A voluminous work like the Ramayana can certainly be expected to be a good repertory of all kinds of information, historical, social, religious and cultural. So can it be a good index of the language as it obtained in contemporary society.
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Not with standing its distinct personality, the Jaina Sanskrit Mahakavya broadly represents an extension of the classical tradition. The Jainistic authors made substantial contributions to enrich the Mahakavya tradition at a time when it was supposed to have gone dormant. No appraisal of the Sanskrit Mahakavya can be claimed to be complete without taking into account the Mahakavyas authored by the Jaina poets. The book means to turn focus on some of the ...