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The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic

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The greatest Indian epic, one of the world's supreme masterpieces of storytelling

A Penguin Classic


A sweeping tale of abduction, battle, and courtship played out in a universe of deities and demons, The Ramayana is familiar to virtually every Indian. Although the Sanskrit original was composed by Valmiki around the fourth century BC, poets have produced countless versions in different languages. Here, drawing on the work of an eleventh-century poet called Kamban, Narayan employs the skills ...