Ramayana
145 books
Sita’s Ramayana shifts the point of view of the Ramayana to bring a woman’s perspective to this timeless epic. Narrated by Sita herself, it is a powerful meditation on the fate of women, as they become pawns in the wars between men and kingdoms. But Sita is not just a patient victim of events she endures her fate with fortitude, until the moment she decides to challenge it.
The book unites two women from very different backgrounds: young urban writer ...
Sri Ram is the most popular deity among the Hindus. Hanuman Ji is his greatest devotee and also the keeper of the gates that lead to Sri Ram. The devout believe that the only way to reach Sri Ram is through Hanuman Ji. That Hanuman Ji and the Vanars were monkeys is a belief that has been with the Hindus at the folk level for centuries perhaps for more than three thousand years.
This book asks: 1) Who was Hanuman ji? Was he a person given to deep reasoning or a ...
The sixth book of the Ramayana of Valmiki, the Yuddhakanda, recounts the final dramatic war between the forces of good led by the exiled prince Rama and the forces of evil commanded by the arch demon Ravana. The hero Rama's primary purpose in the battle is to rescue the abducted princess Sita and destroy the demon king. However, the confrontation also marks the turning point for the divine mission of the Ramavatara, the incarnation of Lord Visnu as a human ...
On the banks of the river Tamasa stood the sage Valmiki. He was absorbed in the contemplation of the sense of peace pervading the place. All on a sudden, he heard the twang of a bowstring, the whirr of an arrow and the piteous cry of a Krauncha bird whose mate had just been killed by the arrow. Valmiki was overcome with pain and compassion and, when his eyes rested on the hunter who had parted the birds, his mind was full of anger and he spoke harshly to the ...
The Book introduces us to some major and minor characters in the great Epics – the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. The author has been very selective in the process, highlighting their excellent qualities of the head and the heart as well as their exceptional achievements. These characters, by dint of excellence in moral values, have universal appeal, being devoid of sectarian or dogmatic notions.The author lays great stress on authenticity and ...
Dr M. Veerappa Moily’s Shree Ramayana Mahanveshanam is a highly laudable work which, though rooted in the contemporary Indian context, addresses universal concerns and presents a unique vision of past, present and future all clubbed into one. The title literally signifying quest and examination, the book rightly explores the Ramatattwa or the true principles of the Rama-story, from a secularist modernist perspective. Moily has introduced several new ...
Based on the Valmiki Ramayana, this book discusses the major events of the Ramayana including those in the Uttara-Kanda, analyzing and interpreting them with a fresh approach. Written in a simple and lucid style, the work deals with the birth of Rama, his destruction of rakshasas accompanied by his brother Lakshmana, of Dasaratha, Rama’s exile, the many developments that led to the war between Rama and Ravana and the later events like Rama’s ...
Millions of people in India and elsewhere believe that Rama, the hero of Valmiki's ancient Sanskrit epic, Ramayana, was a historical figure like jesus Christ, and Valmiki's timeless epic, like the New Testament, a faithful account of Rama's life, his trials, tribulations and triumph.
This work is rendering of Tulsi Ramayan in English verse. Tulsidas was divinely inspired to write the Ramayan in Awadhi dialect. In order to popularize it among the masses, he artfully blended Bhojpuri, Brijbhasa and the local language of the people of Chitrakut in this great epic. The legend says that he saw the entire Ramayan in his dream.A poet while translating in verse also creates something of his own since he pours his heart into it. Metres of poetry and ...
In former times filled with affection towards her devotees the Goddess Parvati reverently questioned Shiva desirous of knowing the nature of Rama. The Lord of the Mountains himself recited to his dear consort that great mystery known as the Adhyatma Ramayana which is great amongst the Puranas. He who reads with devotion even a shloka or half a shloka of the Adhyatma Ramayana, is purified of all sins that very moment. He who daily recites reverently the Adhyatma ...
Adhbhut Ramayan authored by sage Valmiki, who is famous for his classic epic Ramayan Describes a highly strange, mysterious and fantastic version of the epic story of Lord Ram, the legendary king emperor of Ayodhya and an imcarnation of Lord Vishnu, the supreme Lord in creation. It reveals many hitherto little known events in the life of Lord Ram and his divine consort Sita which Valmiki knew but desisted from incorporating them in his earlier epic. He wrote this ...
Adhyatma Ramayan is a magnificently rendered, eternally divine classical epic story of Lord Ram, a manifestation of the transcendental Supreme Being, as the king emperor of Ayodhya. Being incorporated in the Brahmand Puran’s Uttar Khand, it is the most ancient, authentic and authoritative version on Lord Ram’s eternal and sublime story. Flowing from the prolific, expert and flourishing hand of the legendary sage Veda Vyas, the prodigious ...
The Mahabharata and the Ramayana are two books that stand out from the rest of Indian literature in a very marked way. The Vedas, the Institutes of Manu, are the great authorities for the learned and only through the learned for the mass of the people. But the Mahabharata and the Ramayana are wrought into the very life of every Indian...man, woman and child.Despite the influence wielded by these two books; however, their moulding power on life is not so great as ...
The Ramayana is one of the two great epics of India and its influence on the life of Indian people has been great and immeasurable. The ideals pf the Ramayana have gone deep into the core of Indian life and have largely moulded its social, political and cultural fabric and eternal history of India. Rama is an ideal hero the Ramayana describes his character unparalleled in human history.During Vijayanagara period many poets add scholars translated the Ramayana in ...
