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Author : Dharmendra Mohan Sinha
Publisher : Sterling Publishers Pvt., Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ramayana and Modernity written by Dharmendra Mohan Sinha and published by Sterling Publishers Pvt., Limited. This book was released on 1998 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. K. Narayan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440623279
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Ramayana written by R. K. Narayan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-08-29 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest Indian epic, one of the world's supreme masterpieces of storytelling A Penguin Classic A sweeping tale of abduction, battle, and courtship played out in a universe of deities and demons, The Ramayana is familiar to virtually every Indian. Although the Sanskrit original was composed by Valmiki around the fourth century BC, poets have produced countless versions in different languages. Here, drawing on the work of an eleventh-century poet called Kamban, Narayan employs the skills of a master novelist to re-create the excitement he found in the original. A luminous saga made accessible to new generations of readers, The Ramayana can be enjoyed for its spiritual wisdom, or as a thrilling tale of ancient conflict. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Vālmīki
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780865476950
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (769 download)
Download or read book The Ramayana written by Vālmīki and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-05-26 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the ancient world's great verse epics is retold in energetic English prose in this sparkling volume.
Author : Shubha Vilas
Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9352792165
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (527 download)
Download or read book Ramayana: The Game of Life – Book 1: Roar with Courage written by Shubha Vilas and published by Jaico Publishing House. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ashok Banker
Publisher : Grand Central Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780446530927
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Prince of Ayodhya written by Ashok Banker and published by Grand Central Pub. This book was released on 2003 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic fantasy based on the ancient Hindu classic finds young Rama, heir to the throne of Ayodhya, called upon by the legendary mage Vishwamitra when two powerful demons raise an army to defeat the human world. 20,000 first printing.
Author : Valmiki
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814731635
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Ramayana written by Valmiki and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rama, the crown prince of the City of Ayodhya, is a model son and warrior. He is sent by his father the king to rescue a sage from persecution by demons, but must first kill a fearsome ogress. That done, he drives out the demons, restores peace, and attends a tournament in the neighboring city of Mithila; here he bends the bow that no other warrior can handle, winning the prize and the hand of Sita, the princess of Mithila.Valm'ki's Ramßyana is one of the two great national epics of India, the source revered throughout South Asia as the original account of the career of Rama, ideal man and incarnation of the great god Vishnu. The first book, "Boyhood," introduces the young hero Rama and sets the scene for the adventures ahead. It begins with a fascinating excursus on the origins and function of poetry itself.For more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http://www.claysanskritlibrary.org
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538113694
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Valmiki's Ramayana written by and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of India’s greatest epics, the Ramayana pervades the country’s moral and cultural consciousness. For generations it has served as a bedtime story for Indian children, while at the same time engaging the interest of philosophers and theologians. Believed to have been composed by Valmiki sometime between the eighth and sixth centuries BCE, the Ramayana tells the tragic and magical story of Rama, the prince of Ayodhya, an incarnation of Lord Visnu, born to rid the earth of the terrible demon Ravana. An idealized heroic tale ending with the inevitable triumph of good over evil, the Ramayana is also an intensely personal story of family relationships, love and loss, duty and honor, of harem intrigue, petty jealousies, and destructive ambitions. All this played out in a universe populated by larger-than-life humans, gods and celestial beings, wondrous animals and terrifying demons. With her magnificent translation and superb introduction, Arshia Sattar has successfully bridged both time and space to bring this ancient classic to modern English readers.
Author : Paula Richman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253219531
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)
Download or read book Ramayana Stories in Modern South India written by Paula Richman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh perspectives on the classic Indiana epic.
Author : Ramesh Menon
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9350292793
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Ramayana written by Ramesh Menon and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-07-02 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ramayana is certainly one of the world's oldest legends.Modern scholars claim that it was first composed around 300 BC.The devout hindu believes that Rama lived many hundred millenia ago,in the treta yuga, and that was also when the Valmiki first told his immortal story.The epic is called the Adi Kavya,the world's first poem.The God Brahma himself is meant to have inspired Valmiki to creat his classics,in twenty-four thousand slokas. The sages of India have always said that thye true purpose of the Ramayana is to awaken its reader spiritually, and to send him forth on the great journey that leads to moksha,to God. These masters of old held that listening to the Ramayana washes one's sins and purifies the body and the mind. They also believed that hearing or reading the epic with faith will give a man anything at all that his heart desires. Besides,the legend is a literary masterpiece in every sense,full of enchantment,mystery and wisdom. Hardly a handful of books in any language, from any age or part of the world, can be compared to it. The epic came through the mists of time in the ancient oral tradition of guru and shishya, before it was first written down. Alonng the way, surely, numberless variations and embellishments were introduces into it by a host of now forgotten rishis, pauranikas, and even grandmothers telling Rama's story to their grandchindren- in so many different languages and folk traditions. There is also a comparatively recent traditions of retelling the Ramayana in English, to which this volume belongs. Though he takes no liberties with the story, Ramesh menon's Ramayana is a novelist's lush, imaginative rendering of the epic, rather than a scholar's translation. Yet, even if the language he uses is modern and exciting, his book remains, first and last, a work of worship, of bhakti. As he wrote and rewrote it for ten years, this was his offering to Rama.
Author : Shubha Vilas
Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9391019501
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ramayana: The Game of Life: Think Big to Win – Book 6 written by Shubha Vilas and published by Jaico Publishing House. This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE RAMAYANA IS NOT A STORY. IT IS A WAY OF LIFE. IT IS THE GAME OF LIFE. How one responds to difficult situations when faced with challenges determines the outcome. The ability of Rama’s army of vanaras to envision building the bridge from the mainland to Lanka to rescue Sita is one of the many lessons on faith. Here are some invaluable lessons on overcoming obstacles. Think big. The tiny squirrels contributed in their small ways to build the mammoth bridge to Lanka. Aim high. Sugriva, leading a vanara army, dared to win a war without any armor or training against a sophisticated demon army. Recognise opportunities and adapt. Hanuman could expand his size or contract, focusing on his goal to serve Rama. Are you thinking big to succeed in life? THINK BIG TO WIN is the sixth book in Ramayana: The Game of Life series. A modern retelling of the Yuddha Kanda of Valmiki’s epic, this book highlights the efforts of the various characters who irrespective of their size, stature or abilities, succeeded in helping Rama rescue Sita from Lanka. Teeming with lessons in self-belief and daring to take up tasks which may seem beyond your capacity and accomplishing them, the book evokes progressive attitudes to help you overcome self-perceived limitations and achieve your dreams.
Author : William Buck
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520383389
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Ramayana written by William Buck and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An elegant translation of the beloved epic tale of Prince Rama Few works of literature have inspired so vast an audience across so many radically different languages and cultures as the Ramayana, written in Sanskrit over 2,000 years ago by a poet known to us as Valmiki. William Buck has retold the story of Prince Rama—with all its nobility of spirit, courtly intrigue, heroic renunciation, fierce battles, and triumph of good over evil—in a length and with a style that make the great epic accessible without compromising the spirit and lyricism of the original.
Author : S. L. N. Simha
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ramayana for the Modern World written by S. L. N. Simha and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ramesh Menon
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595401872
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)
Download or read book The Mahabharata written by Ramesh Menon and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mahabharata is the more recent of India's two great epics, and by far the longer. First composed by the Maharishi Vyasa in verse, it has come down the centuries in the timeless oral tradition of guru and sishya, profoundly influencing the history, culture, and art of not only the Indian subcontinent but most of south-east Asia. At 100,000 couplets, it is seven times as long as the Iliad and the Odyssey combined: far and away the greatest recorded epic known to man. The Mahabharata is the very Book of Life: in its variety, majesty and, also, in its violence and tragedy. It has been said that nothing exists that cannot be found within the pages of this awesome legend. The epic describes a great war of some 5000 years ago, and the events that led to it. The war on Kurukshetra sees ten million warriors slain, brings the dwapara yuga to an end, and ushers in a new and sinister age: this present kali yuga, modern times. At the heart of the Mahabharata nestles the Bhagavad Gita, the Song of God. Senayor ubhayor madhye, between two teeming armies, Krishna expounds the eternal dharma to his warrior of light, Arjuna. At one level, all the restless action of the Mahabharata is a quest for the Gita and its sacred stillness. After the carnage, it is the Gita that survives, immortal lotus floating upon the dark waters of desolation: the final secret With its magnificent cast of characters, human, demonic, and divine, and its riveting narrative, the Mahabharata continues to enchant readers and scholars the world over. This new rendering brings the epic to the contemporary reader in sparkling modern prose. It brings alive all the excitement, magic, and grandeur of the original - for our times.
Author : Linda Egenes, M.A.
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101993057
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Ramayana written by Linda Egenes, M.A. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightfully straightforward and lyrical retelling of the ancient Indian epic of loyalty, betrayal, redemption, and insight into the true nature of life -- one of history's most sacred ethical works, rendered with completeness and sterling accuracy for the modern reader. Here is one of the world's most hallowed works of sacred literature, the grand, sweeping epic of the divine bowman and warrior Rama and his struggles with evil, power, duplicity, and avarice. The Ramayana is one of the foundations of world literature and one of humanity's most ancient and treasured ethical and spiritual works. Includes an introduction by scholar Michael Sternfeld.
Author : William Buck
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120817203
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Ramayana written by William Buck and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compared to the western epics, the Ramayana and Mahabharata are more complete story of Hindu, religious, cultural and social imagination and more exact narration of evolutionary rise of man. In this book, William Buck has succeeded better than anyone else in conveying the spirit of the original.The task of presenting a faithful image of the original text, its metaphysical nuances as well as its chronological sequence the world`s largest epic in a small book is a stupendous task.Mainly as a narration, the version of William Buck will serve as an interesting and complete tale to the English speaking reader. Valmiki was called the Adikavi or first poet of Sanskrit literature and some of his remarkable talent shines forth in the English rendering. The reader will find pleasure in reading it aloud to himself or the others.
Author : Squadron Leader S. Ravi [Iaf] Retd
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1609118014
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ramayana - A Modern Retelling written by Squadron Leader S. Ravi [Iaf] Retd and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ramayana - A Modern Retelling offers an intriguing look at Hindu mythology, tracing the extraordinary lives and aspirations of those who lived in ancient India. This story is not history or biography, but about what could have been. One of the oldest living religions in the world, Hinduism is unique in that it has many sects but no single leader. Its beliefs have evolved over 4,000 years, and it numbers over 1 billion followers. It is difficult to understand Hindu Dharma unless one tries to understand the characters of Raama, Lakshmana, Seetha, Bharata, and Hanuman. This book does just that. Ruling over the kingdom of Khosala from the city of Ayodhya, King Dasaratha is beloved and respected by all. Although he has three wives, he is childless. To rectify the matter, a powerful prayer is performed. Within a year, four sons are delivered by his three wives, including a set of twins. Named Raama, Bharata, Lakshmana and Shatrugna, they train to become royal princes. As the brothers mature, they are molded by training and royal values. This greatest of epic stories follows them as they marry and fight for their honour. The story blazes across India until a new king is crowned. Squadron Leader S. Ravi [IAF] Retd, was born and raised in Chennai, a city in southern India. After graduating in mechanical engineering from Regional Engineering College, Rourkela, Ravi joined the Indian Air Force as a commissioned officer. Having travelled the world as an officer, Ravi is now a business consultant for a company called Force 1 and is living in Chennai with his wife.
Author : Chandrabati
Publisher : Zubaan
ISBN 13 : 8194721873
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (947 download)
Download or read book Chandrabati’s Ramayan written by Chandrabati and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2020-01-25 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chandrabati, the first woman poet in Bangla, lived in the sixteenth century in Mymensingh district in present day Bangladesh. She was also the first poet in the Bangla language to present a retelling of the Ram story from the point of view of Sita. Idolised as a model of marital obedience and chastity in Valmiki’s Ramayan, Chandrabati’s lyrical retelling of Sita’s story offers us a fresh perspective. Written in order to be sung before a non-courtly audience, mainly of womenfolk of rural Bengal, Chandrabati’s Ramayan adds new characters and situations to the story to provide new interpretations of already known events drawing richly on elements of existing genres. Its location in the tales of everyday life has ensured that Chandrabati’s Ramayan lives on in the hearts of village women of modern-day India.
