The Ramayana of Valmiki - Condensed & Transcreated from Sanskrit by P Lal


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ProductID: 19503 - Hardcover - 344 Pages (Year: 2006)
Writers Workshop ~ ISBN: 818157446X

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This transcreation was planned as a companion volume to author's condensed English version of The Mahabharata of Vyasa . It employs the same principles of, approach and handling; for what was intended to be really just a pleasure-giving version of Valmiki’s epic.

The structural, genealogical and other complexities of my Mahabharata version necessitated a long, interpreting introduction. The Ramayana is much shorter and, because of its compactness and other reasons, simple.

The speed of Valmiki’s story and the chastening clarity of its character-sketching-the Mahabharata has a cast of thousands, the Ramayana a very manageable handful of characters – speak for themselves. The less interposing and inter-preting, the better.

Table of Contents

PROLOGUE

BOOK ONE
Bala-Kanda (Childhood)

BOOK TWO
Ayodhya Kanda (The City of Ayodhya)

BOOK THREE
Aranya-Kanda
(The Forest)

FOUR FOUR
Kishkindha-Kanda
(In Kishkindha)

BOOK FIVE
Sundara- Kanda
(The Auspicious Book)

BOOK SIX
Yuddha-Kanda (War)

BOOK SEVEN
Uttara- Kanda (Aftermath)

GLOSSARY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

About the Author

Born in 1880, his first book of short stories written in Urdu appeared in 1908 . The British Raj considered them seditious and all copies were publicly burnt. changing his pseudonym to Premchand, he brought out his first novel Seva-Sadan in 1918 and gradually switched from Urdu to Hindi. In Hindi literature he is honored as The Tolstoy of India in recognition of his remarkable delineation of the realities of peasant life and his relentless exposure of social superstitions and hypocrisies.

He wrote over a dozen novels - his last Godan, the only one available in English till recently, and over 300 stories, of which about 50 have been translated into English.

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