The Ramayana and Mahabharata (Abridged)

Name: The Ramayana and Mahabharata (Abridged)
Author: Maharishi Valmiki
ISBN: 9781787363304

Author: Maharishi Valmiki, Veda Vyasa
Series: Hindu Library
Language: English
Length: 426 pages
ISBN: 9781787363304
Published: 6 November 2021
Imprint: The Big Nest

Ramayana
Mahabharata
Love
Romance
Life
Epic
Poetry
Hinduism
Hindu
philosophy

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Description

The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Ramayana.This is an abridged verse translation of the two longest epic poems in world literature, the Ramayana and Mahabharata. The Ramayana is an important piece of Sanskrit poetry and Hindu life and culture. The characters Rama, Sita, Lakshmana, Bharata, Hanuman, and Ravana are all fundamental to the cultural consciousness of the South Asian nations of India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the South-East Asian countries of Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.

Author

Maharishi Valmiki is the honorific name of the sage credited with the Ramayana, Sanskrit's founding epic of Rama, Sita, and the forest years. The abridged pairing with the Mahabharata on this list is a reader's door into two Indian oceans of story. The title Maharishi marks the teacher, not a second man. What remains is the poem: exile, loyalty, and a verse line that taught later India how an epic should sound.

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