The Rāmāyana, Volume 1. Bālakāndam and Ayodhyākāndam by Valmiki

"The Rāmāyana, Volume 1. Bālakāndam and Ayodhyākāndam" by Valmiki is a Sanskrit epic with its earliest portions composed between the 7th and 5th centuries BCE. This ancient Hindu text follows Prince Rama's fourteen-year exile from his kingdom of Ayodhya, accompanied by his wife Sita and brother Lakshmana. Their forest journey leads to Sita's kidnapping by Ravana, king of Lanka, setting in motion a conflict that will test virtue, loyalty, and duty before Rama's eventual return home. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Creator Valmiki
Translator Dutt, Manmatha Nath
Title The Rāmāyana, Volume 1. Bālakāndam and Ayodhyākāndam
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramayana
Credits Produced by James Simmons
Reading Level Reading ease score: 65.7 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language English
LoC Class PK: Language and Literatures: Indo-Iranian literatures
Subject Folklore -- India
Subject Rama (Hindu deity) -- Fiction
Subject Epic poetry, Sanskrit -- Translations into English
Subject Valmiki -- Adaptations
Category Text
EBook-No. 57265
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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