Ramayana
Valmiki's epic of Rama; source of the descent of the Ganga and the worship at Rameshwaram.
A quick reference entry. For the full account, follow the guides below.
Appears in
- What is the Ramayana? Scriptures
The poem is the Ramayana , "the going of Rama," or "Rama's journey." Whether the river and the cranes are history is a separate question, one we will come back to.
- The Twelve Jyotirlingas Temples
… pass, giving the shrine its famous two lingas, belongs mainly to the Ramayana tradition and the Setu-mahatmya of the Skanda Purana .
- The Unwritten Library Treatise
Volume III, "Thus It Was," takes up the two epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata: what itihasa means, the first poem and its birth from grief, the largest poem in the world, the moral questions the epics for…
- The Search for the Original Treatise
At the Oriental Institute in Baroda, collation of the Ramayana of Valmiki began in 1951.
- Thus It Was Treatise
This volume turns to the two texts that millions of Hindus have actually lived inside, the ones a child meets first and an old person knows by heart. The Ramayana and the Mahabharata .
- The First Poem Treatise
This is how the Ramayana accounts for its own birth, and it is one of the most quietly radical origin stories any literature has told about itself.
- The Trouble With Dharma Treatise
The Ramayana , gentler on its surface, carries its own hard cases, and they cluster around its hero, the very model of dharma .
- The Story That Would Not Stay Still Treatise
In one of the oldest tellings of the Ramayana that survives, Ravana is not a demon.
- Who is Hanuman? Deities
There is a moment in the Ramayana when an army stands at the edge of the sea and cannot cross it.
- Who is Rama? Deities
In the Bala Kanda , the first book of the Ramayana , the sage Valmiki asks a simple question of the wandering seer Narada.
- Is Ram Setu man-made? What the geology actually says Journal
And the caption said: NASA has photographed an ancient man-made bridge, thousands of years old, exactly where the Ramayana says Rama's army built one to cross to Lanka.
- Vimanas: did ancient India have flying machines? Journal
The Ramayana contains a famous one, and it is not a modern reader's imaginative stretch; it is right there in the poem.
- What is the Hanuman Chalisa? Worship
…me devotee who wrote the Ramcharitmanas , the Awadhi retelling of the Ramayana that became the living scripture of the north.