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  The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Penguin Classics) (Paperback) By (author) R.K. Narayan

  

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  Short Description for The Ramayana"The Ramayana" is the greatest of Indian epics - and one of the world's supreme masterpieces of storytelling. Telling the story, this work suggests that it can be enjoyed for its psychological insight, its spiritual depth and its wisdom - or as a tale of abduction, battle and courtship played out in a universe with heroes, deities and demons.
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  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Published: 02 November 2006
  • Format: Paperback 192 pages
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  • Categories: Prose: Non-fiction | Myth & Legend Told As Fiction | Hinduism | Sacred Texts
  • ISBN 13: 9780143039679 ISBN 10: 0143039679
  • Sales rank: 109,428

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• "The Ramayana" is, quite simply, the greatest of Indian epics - and one of the world's supreme masterpieces of storytelling. 'Almost every individual living in India,' writes R. K. Narayan in the Introduction to this new interpretation, 'is aware of the story of "The Ramayana". Everyone of whatever age, outlook, education or station in life knows the essential part of the epic and adores the main figures in it - Rama and Sita. Every child is told the story at bedtime ..."The Ramayana" pervades our cultural life.' Although the Sanskrit original was composed by Valmiki, probably around the fourth century BC, poets have produced countless variant versions in different languages. Here, drawing his inspiration from the work of an eleventh-century Tamil poet called Kamban, Narayan has used the talents of a master novelist to recreate the excitement and joy he has found in the original. It can be enjoyed and appreciated, he suggests, for its psychological insight, its spiritual depth and its practical wisdom - or just as a thrilling tale of abduction, battle and courtship played out in a universe thronged with heroes, deities and demons.