The Ayodhya Canto of the Ramayana as told by Kamban by C Rajagopalachari


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ProductID: 1982 - Hardcover - 127 Pages (Year: 1994)
Sahitya Akademi ~ ISBN: 8172016565

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This book is an English rendering of one of the Cantos of Kamban Ramayana in Tamil.

There are uncounted versions of The Ramayana, one of the two great national epics of India. Every language of India has its own Ramayana. The three most famous versions, however, are the Sanskrit, attributed to Valmiki, the sixteenth-century Hindi version by Tulsidas, and the ninth-century Tamil classic by Kamban.

It is the Ayodhya canto of the Kamban version - the most dramatic part of the Ramayana, which is given in this volume. The translation into English is the work of Sri Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, former Governor General of India and a leading writer in Tamil and English.

The translation in this book if of the Ayodhya Kandam, which deals with the story of Rama's leaving Ayodhya for the forest and Bharata's suffering as a result of what his mother did. The Ayodhya Kandam is the most dramatic chapter in the Rama legend. According to the best critics of Tamil literature, it is also the finest part of Kamban's great classic.

About the Author

Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, popularly known as Rajaji or C.R. was a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi, an ardent freedom fighter, Chief Minister of Madras, Governor of West Bengal, Home Minister of India and as the first Indian Governor General of India. The Gita is one of the greatest scriptures expounding the creed, discipline and ideals of Hinduism. And no better exponent of the ideas contained in it can be found than Rajai who was indisputably one of the greatest Indians and who has dared to live strictly according to the precepts of that manual of correct living in the face of the challenges of a rife-torn political and public life.

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