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Here is a list of notable English translations of the Ramayana in chronological order: Griffith, Ralph T. H. (1870–1874). The Ramayan of Valmiki. Trübner – via Sacred-texts.org. (Project Gutenberg). Griffith's translation was one of the earliest complete translations of the Ramayana into English. Dutt, Romesh Chunder (1898).
Viraat Ramayan Mandir is a under-construction Hindu temple, located at twin villages of Kaithawalia and Bahuara near Chakia in East Champaran district, Bihar, India. [1] It is being built with a cost of 500 crore rupees [2] and is planned to be 123 metres (405 ft) high, double height of Angkor Wat Hindu Temple in Cambodia, [3] and to have a hall that seats 20,000 people.
' Rama Temple ') is a partially constructed Hindu temple complex in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, India. [6] [7] Many Hindus believe that it is located at the site of Ram Janmabhoomi, the mythical birthplace of Rama, [c] a principal deity of Hinduism. [8] [9] [10] The temple was inaugurated [7] on 22 January 2024 after a prana pratishtha ...
The Ramayana is a Sanskrit text, while Ramacharitamanasa retells the Ramayana in Awadhi, [120] commonly understood in northern India by speakers of the several Hindi languages. [121] [122] [123] Ramacharitamanasa was composed in the 16th century by Tulsidas.
The temple has four entrances; the Rajagopuram is located at the northern entrance, which is called the Vaikuntha Dwaram. The temple houses a number of sub-shrines and a few mandapams. Bhadrachalam is notable for its principal deity Rama. Gopanna used Bhadrachalam as a centre of the Bhajan tradition to spread awareness of the Vaishnavite tradition.
The Ramayana is composed of about 480,002 words, being a quarter of the length of the full text of the Mahabharata or about four times the length of the Iliad. The Ramayana tells the story of a prince, Rama of the city of Ayodhya in the Kingdom of Kosala, whose wife Sita is abducted by Ravana, the demon-king of Lanka.
Both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata describe Ayodhya as the capital of the Ikshvaku dynasty of Kosala, including Rama and Dasharatha. The Purana-pancha-lakshana also describes the city as the capital of Ikshvaku kings, including Harishchandra. [1] The Ramayana states that the city was ruled by king Dasharatha, a descendant of king Ikshvaku ...
Based on this, in 1996 an abridged translation into English, was published by writer Arshia Sattar under the Penguin publishing house Valmiki Ramayana. In September 2006, the first issue of Ramayan 3392 A.D. was published by Virgin Comics, featuring the Ramayana as re-envisioned by author Deepak Chopra and filmmaker Shekhar Kapur.