The Rāmāyana (/rɑːˈmɑːjənə/;[1][2] Sanskrit: रामायणम्,[3] IAST: Rāmāyaṇam) is a Sanskrit epic from old India. Ramayana is one of the two significant legends of Hinduism, known as the Itihasas, the other being the Mahābhārata.[4]
The epic, generally credited to the Maharishi Valmiki, portrays the existence of Rama, an unbelievable sovereign of Ayodhya city in the realm of Kosala. The epic follows his fourteen-year exile to the woodland asked by his dad King Dasharatha, on the solicitation of Rama's stepmother Kaikeyi; his movements across backwoods in the Indian subcontinent with his significant other Sita and sibling Lakshmana, the seizing of Sita by Ravana - the ruler of Lanka, that brought about war; and Rama's possible re-visitation of Ayodhya to be delegated lord in the midst of celebration and festivity.
The Ramayana is perhaps of the biggest antiquated legendary in world writing. It comprises of almost 24,000 sections (generally set in the Shloka/Anustubh meter), partitioned into seven kāṇḍas, the first and the seventh being later additions.[5] It has a place with the class of Itihasa, stories of previous occasions (purāvṛtta), scattered with lessons on the objectives of human existence. Researchers' appraisals for the earliest phase of the text range from the seventh to fourth hundreds of years BCE,[6][7] with later stages reaching out up to the third century CE.[8]
There are numerous forms of Ramayana in Indian dialects, other than Buddhist, Sikh and Jain transformations. There are additionally Cambodian (Reamker), Indonesian, Filipino, Thai (Ramakien), Lao, Burmese and Malay renditions of the story. Retellings remember Kamban's Ramavataram for Tamil (c. eleventh twelfth hundred years), Champu Ramayanam[9] of Bhoja (c. eleventh hundred years), Kumudendu Muni' s Kumudendu Ramayana (a Jain rendition) (c. thirteenth hundred years) and Narahari's Torave Ramayana in Kannada (c. sixteenth hundred years), Gona Budda Reddy's Ranganatha Ramayanam in Telugu (c. thirteenth hundred years), Madhava Kandali's Saptakanda Ramayana in Assamese (c. fourteenth hundred years), Krittibas Ojha's Krittivasi Ramayan (otherwise called Shri Ram Panchali) in Bengali (c. fifteenth hundred years), Sarala Das' Vilanka Ramayana (c. fifteenth century)[10][11][12][13] and Balarama Dasa's Jagamohana Ramayana (otherwise called the Dandi Ramayana) (c. sixteenth hundred years) both in Odia, sant Eknath's Bhavarth Ramayan (c. sixteenth 100 years) in Marathi, Tulsidas' Ramcharitamanas (c. sixteenth 100 years) in Awadhi (which is an eastern type of Hindi) and Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan's Adhyathmaramayanam (Kilippattu) in Malayalam (c. seventeenth 100 years).
The Ramayana was a significant impact on later Sanskrit verse and the Hindu life and culture. The characters Rama, Sita, Lakshmana, Bharata, Hanuman, and Ravana are principal to the social cognizance of the South Asian countries of India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the South-East Asian nations of Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. Its most significant moral impact was the significance of uprightness, in the existence of a resident and in the beliefs of the development of a state (from Sanskrit: रामराज्य, IAST: Ramarajya - an idealistic state where Rama is top dog) or of a working society.
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