The Ramayana : a shortened modern prose version of the Indian epic : (suggested by the Tamil version of Kamban)

Author(s)

• Narayan, R. K.

Bibliographic Information

The Ramayana : a shortened modern prose version of the Indian epic : (suggested by the Tamil version of Kamban)

by R. K. Narayan

（Penguin twentieth-century classics）

Penguin Books, 1977

Note

First published in the USA by Viking Penguin 1972

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This selection from the great classic of Indian literature is the heroic tale of Prince Rama. The stories chief episodes are Rama's courtship of the youthful Sita, their exile, Sita's abduction, the search, and the great battle with Ravana, her abductor.

Table of Contents

• Rama's initiation
• the wedding
• two promises revived
• encounters in exile
• the grand tormentor
• Vali
• when the rains cease
• memento from Rama
• Ravana in council
• across the ocean
• the siege of Lanka
• Rama and Ravana in battle
• interlude
• the coronation.

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Details

• NCID: BA20328564
• ISBN:
  • 0140187006
• LCCN: 77001986
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Eng.
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 171 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PZ3.N166
  • LCC : PR9499.3.N3
  • DC : 823
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA07487461