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Ramayana

India's Immortal Tale of Adventure, Love and Wisdom

A prince exiled on the eve of his coronation, a wife carried off by a demon king, and an army of bears and monkeys that goes to get her back.

Rama is to be crowned in the morning. By nightfall he has been sent into the forest for fourteen years, and he goes without argument.

What follows is one of the oldest adventure stories in the world: the years in the wilderness, Sita's abduction by Ravana, the alliance with Hanuman and the monkey armies, the bridge to Lanka, and the siege.

The Ramayana has been retold for close to three thousand years because it asks a simple, unrelenting question — what is a person actually obliged to do? — and refuses to make the answer easy.

What to expect

  • The whole story, from Ayodhya to the return
  • Rama, Sita, Hanuman and Ravana as characters rather than symbols
  • Loyalty, exile and the cost of keeping your word
  • A natural place to start if you have never read an Indian epic

Edition details

Publisher
Torchlight Publishing
First published
1998
Language
English
Hardcover
480 pagesISBN 9781887089067
Paperback
480 pages[add isbn]

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