Ramayana, the Glossary
The Ramayana (translit-std), also known as Valmiki Ramayana, as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics of Hinduism known as the Itihasas, the other being the Mahabharata.[1]
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259 relations: Adam's Bridge, Adbhuta Ramayana, Adhyatma Ramayanam Kilippattu, Agni, Ahiravan, Akanaṉūṟu, Akbar, Allegory, Alvars, Amish Tripathi, Amsterdam, Anand Neelakantan, Andal, Andhra Pradesh, Angada, Anuṣṭubh, Arunachala Kavi, Ashok Banker, Ashvamedha, Assamese language, Atharvaveda, Atukuri Molla, Awadhi language, Ayodhya, Ayodhya (Ramayana), Śalākāpuruṣa, Baba Hari Dass, Balakanda, Balarama, Bali, Balinese dance, Balinese people, Balinese temple, Bengali language, Bengalis, Bhaṭṭikāvya, Bhadrabāhu, Bhakti, Bhoja, Bhojpuri language, Bilanka Ramayana, Bronze sculpture, Buddhism, Burmese language, Cambodia, Central Java, Chakravarti (Sanskrit term), Champu, Chanda Jha, Chitrakoot, Madhya Pradesh, ... Expand index (209 more) »
- 6th-century BC poems
- 7th-century BC poems
- Epic poems in Sanskrit
- Hindu poetry
- Rama
Adam's Bridge
Adam's Bridge, also known as Rama's Bridge or Rama Setu, is a chain of natural limestone shoals between Pamban Island, also known as Rameswaram Island, off the south-eastern coast of Tamil Nadu, India, and Mannar Island, off the north-western coast of Sri Lanka.
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Adbhuta Ramayana
The Adbhuta Ramayana is a Śāktaḥ Sanskrit work. Ramayana and Adbhuta Ramayana are epic poems in Sanskrit and Hindu texts.
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Adhyatma Ramayanam Kilippattu
Adhyatma Ramayanam Kilippattu is the most popular Malayalam version of the Sanskrit Hindu epic Ramayana.
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Agni
Agni (अग्नि) is the Hindu god of fire.
Ahiravan
In some versions of the Ramayana such as the Krittivasi Ramayana, Mahiravana, is the brother of the rakshasa king Ravana.
Akanaṉūṟu
The Akananuru (literally "four hundred in the akam genre"), sometimes called Nedunthokai (lit. "anthology of long poems"), is a classical Tamil poetic work and one of the Eight Anthologies (Ettuthokai) in the Sangam literature.
Akbar
Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar (–), popularly known as Akbar the Great, and also as Akbar I, was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605.
Allegory
As a literary device or artistic form, an allegory is a narrative or visual representation in which a character, place, or event can be interpreted to represent a meaning with moral or political significance.
Alvars
The Alvars (lit) were the Tamil poet-saints of South India who espoused bhakti (devotion) to the Hindu preserver deity Vishnu, in their songs of longing, ecstasy, and service.
Amish Tripathi
Amish Tripathi (born 18 October 1974) is an author, former diplomat and broadcaster from India.
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.
Anand Neelakantan
Anand Neelakantan an Indian novelist, columnist, screenwriter, and public speaker.
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Andal
Andal (ஆண்டாள்; ISO 15919: Āṇḍāḷ), also known as Kothai, Nachiyar, and Godadevi, was the only female Alvar among the twelve Hindu poet-saints of South India.
Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh (abbr. AP) is a state in the southern coastal region of India.
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Angada
Angada (Sanskrit: अङ्गदः, IAST: Aṅgada) is a legendary vanara in Hinduism.
Anuṣṭubh
(अनुष्टुभ्) is a metre and a metrical unit, found in both Vedic and Classical Sanskrit poetry, but with significant differences.
Arunachala Kavi
Arunachala Kavi (அருணாசல கவி) (1711–1779) was a Tamil poet and a composer of Carnatic music.
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Ashok Banker
Ashok Kumar Banker (born 7 February 1964 in Mumbai, India) is an author and screenwriter.
Ashvamedha
The Ashvamedha (translit-std) was a horse sacrifice ritual followed by the Śrauta tradition of Vedic religion.
Assamese language
Assamese or Asamiya (অসমীয়া) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam, where it is an official language.
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Atharvaveda
The Atharvaveda or Atharva Veda (अथर्ववेद,, from अथर्वन्, and वेद, "knowledge") or Atharvana Veda (अथर्वणवेद) is the "knowledge storehouse of atharvāṇas, the procedures for everyday life". Ramayana and Atharvaveda are Hindu texts.
Atukuri Molla
Atukuri Molla (1440–1530) was a Telugu poet who authored the Telugu-language Ramayana.
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Awadhi language
Awadhi, also known as Audhi, is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh in northern India and in Terai region of western Nepal.
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Ayodhya
Ayodhya is a city situated on the banks of the Sarayu river in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Ramayana and Ayodhya are Rama.
Ayodhya (Ramayana)
Ayodhya is a legendary city mentioned in the ancient Sanskrit-language texts, including the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
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Śalākāpuruṣa
According to the Jain cosmology, the Śalākāpuruṣa (शलाकापुरुष) "illustrious or worthy persons" are 63 illustrious beings who appear during each half-time cycle.
Baba Hari Dass
Baba Hari Dass (Devanagari: बाबा हरि दास) (26 March 1923 – 25 September 2018) was an Indian yoga master, silent monk, temple builder, and commentator of Indian scriptural traditions of dharma and moksha.
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Balakanda
Bala Kanda (बालकाण्ड; IAST: ') is the first Book of the Valmiki Ramayana. The Bala Kanda, in partif not in its entiretyis generally regarded as an interpolation to the original epic.
Balarama
Balarama (बलराम) is a Hindu god, and the elder brother of Krishna.
Bali
Bali (English:; ᬩᬮᬶ) is a province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands.
Balinese dance
Balinese dance (tarian Bali; ᬇᬕᭂᬮᬦ᭄ᬩᬮᬶ (igélan Bali)) is an ancient dance tradition that is part of the religious and artistic expression among the Balinese people of Bali island, Indonesia.
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Balinese people
The Balinese people (Suku Bali; Ânak Bali) are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the Indonesian island of Bali.
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Balinese temple
A Pura is a Balinese Hindu temple and the place of worship for adherents of Balinese Hinduism in Indonesia.
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Bengali language
Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language from the Indo-European language family native to the Bengal region of South Asia.
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Bengalis
Bengalis (বাঙ্গালী, বাঙালি), also rendered as endonym Bangali, are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the Bengal region of South Asia.
Bhaṭṭikāvya
("Bhatti's Poem") is a Sanskrit-language poem dating from the 7th century CE, in the formal genre of the "great poem" (mahākāvya). Ramayana and Bhaṭṭikāvya are epic poems in Sanskrit.
Bhadrabāhu
Ācārya Bhadrabāhu (c. 367 – c. 298 BC) was, according to both the Śvetāmbara and Digambara sects of Jainism, the last Shruta Kevalin (all knowing by hearsay, that is indirectly) in Jainism.
Bhakti
Bhakti (भक्ति; Pali: bhatti) is a term common in Indian religions which means attachment, fondness for, devotion to, trust, homage, worship, piety, faith, or love.
Bhoja
Bhoja (reigned c. 1010–1055 CE) was the ruler of the Kingdom of Malwa in central India, where his capital Dhara-nagara (modern Dhar) was located.
Bhojpuri language
Bhojpuri (IPA:; Devanagari:, Kaithi) is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Bhojpur-Purvanchal region of India and the Terai region of Nepal and.
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Bilanka Ramayana
Bilanka Ramayana, (ବିଲଙ୍କା ରାମାୟଣ) (also Vilanka Ramayana) is a 15th-century retelling of the Indian epic poem, the Ramayana, written by Sarala Dasa in Odia. Ramayana and Bilanka Ramayana are Hindu poetry.
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Bronze sculpture
Bronze is the most popular metal for cast metal sculptures; a cast bronze sculpture is often called simply "a bronze".
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Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
Burmese language
Burmese is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Myanmar, where it is the official language, lingua franca, and the native language of the Bamar, the country's principal ethnic group.
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Cambodia
Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Mainland Southeast Asia.
Central Java
Central Java (Jawa Tengah, Jawi Madya) is a province of Indonesia, located in the middle of the island of Java.
Chakravarti (Sanskrit term)
A chakravarti (चक्रवर्तिन्) is an ideal (or idealized) universal ruler, in the history, and religion of India.
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Champu
Champu or Chapu-Kavya (Devanagari: चम्पू-काव्य) is a genre of literary composition in Indian literature.
Chanda Jha
Chanda Jha (Maithili: चंदा झा) also known as Kavi Chandra was the first poet who wrote Ramayana in Maithili language.
Chitrakoot, Madhya Pradesh
Chitrakoot is a pilgrimage centre and a nagar panchayat in the Satna district in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India.
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Cilappatikaram
Cilappatikāram (சிலப்பதிகாரம், ചിലപ്പതികാരം, IPA: ʧiləppət̪ikɑːrəm, lit. "the Tale of an Anklet"), also referred to as Silappathikaram or Silappatikaram, is the earliest Tamil epic. Ramayana and Cilappatikaram are Hindu texts.
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Clay Sanskrit Library
The Clay Sanskrit Library is a series of books published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation.
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Dasaratha Jataka
Dasaratha Jataka (Dasaratha Jātaka) is a Jataka tale found in Buddhist literature about a previous life of the Gautama Buddha.
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Dasharatha
Dasharatha (IAST: Daśaratha; born Nemi) was the king of Kosala, with its capital at Ayodhya, in the Hindu epic Ramayana.
Devdutt Pattanaik
Devdutt Pattanaik is a mythologist and writer from Mumbai, India.
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Diwali
Diwali (Deepavali, IAST: Dīpāvalī) is the Hindu festival of lights, with variations celebrated in other Indian religions.
Diya (lamp)
A diya, diyo, deya, deeya, dia, divaa, deepa, deepam, deep, deepak or saaki is an oil lamp made from clay or mud with a cotton wick dipped in oil or ghee.
East Java
East Java (Jawa Timur, Jawi Wetan, Jhâbâ Tèmor) is a province of Indonesia located in the easternmost third of Java island.
Eknath
Eknath (IAST: Eka-nātha, Marathi pronunciation: eknath) (1533–1599), was an Indian Hindu saint, philosopher and poet.
English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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Exile of Rama
The exile of Rama is an event featured in the Ramayana,Exile of Rama begins in the Ayōdhyākānda, or the Book of Ayodhya. the second chapter of the Ramayana, while ends in the Uttarakānda or the Book of Later Events. Ramayana and exile of Rama are Rama.
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Filipino language
Filipino (Wikang Filipino) is a language under the Austronesian language family.
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Ganadhara
In Jainism, the term Ganadhara is used to refer the chief disciple of a Tirthankara.
Gandharva
A gandharva is a member of a class of celestial beings in Indian religions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, whose males are divine performers such as musicians and singers, and the females are divine dancers.
Godavari River
The Godavari (ɡod̪aːʋəɾiː) is India's second longest river after the Ganga River and drains the third largest basin in India, covering about 10% of India's total geographical area. Its source is in Trimbakeshwar, Nashik, Maharashtra. It flows east for, draining the states of Maharashtra (48.6%), Telangana (18.8%), Andhra Pradesh (4.5%), Chhattisgarh (10.9%) and Odisha (5.7%).
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Gona Budda Reddy
Gona Budda Reddy, also known as Ranganatha (13th century CE), was a poet and ruler living in southern India.
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Gondi people
The Gondi (Gōṇḍī) or Gond people, who refer to themselves as "Kōītōr" (Kōī, Kōītōr), are an ethnolinguistic group in India.
GRETIL
The Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages (GRETIL) is a comprehensive repository of e-texts in Sanskrit and other Indian languages.
Gujarat
Gujarat is a state along the western coast of India.
Hamida Banu Begum
Hamida Banu Begum (Persian: حمیده بانو بیگم; 1527 – 29 August 1604) was the empress consort of the second Mughal emperor Humayun and the mother of his successor, the third Mughal emperor Akbar.
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Hanuman
Hanuman (हनुमान्), also known as Maruti, Bajrangabali, and Anjaneya, is a deity in Hinduism, revered as a divine vanara, and a devoted companion of the deity Rama.
Hemachandra
Hemachandra was a 12th century Indian Jain saint, scholar, poet, mathematician, philosopher, yogi, grammarian, law theorist, historian, lexicographer, rhetorician, logician, and prosodist.
Hikayat Seri Rama
Hikayat Seri Rama (Jawi) is the Malay literary adaptation of the Hindu Ramayana epic in the form of a hikayat.
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Hindi
Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script.
Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.
Hindus
Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.
History of India
Anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian subcontinent between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago.
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Ida Bagus Made Togog
Ida Bagus Made Togog (1913–1989) was born into a noble Brahmana clan in the center of Batuan.
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IIT Kanpur
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) is a public institute of technology located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.
India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
Indian diaspora
Overseas Indians (ISO), officially Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) and People of Indian Origin (PIOs) are Indians who reside or originate outside of India. According to the Government of India, Non-Resident Indians are citizens of India who currently are not living in India, while the term People of Indian Origin refers to people of Indian birth or ancestry who are citizens of countries other than India (with some exceptions).
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Indian epic poetry
Indian epic poetry is the epic poetry written in the Indian subcontinent, traditionally called Kavya (or Kāvya; Sanskrit: काव्य, IAST: kāvyá).
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Indian subcontinent
The Indian subcontinent is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.
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Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.
Indonesian language
Indonesian is the official and national language of Indonesia.
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Indrajit
Meghanada, also referred to by his epithet Indrajita, according to Hindu texts, was the eldest son of Ravana and the crown prince of Lanka, who conquered Indraloka (Heaven).
Islamic mythology
Islamic mythology is the body of myths associated with Islam and the Quran.
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Itihasa-Purana
In Hinduism, Itihasa-Purana, also called the fifth Veda, refers to the traditional accounts of cosmogeny, myths, royal genealogies of the lunar dynasty and solar dynasty, and legendary past events, as narrated in the Itahasa (Mahabharata and the Ramayana) and the Puranas.
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Jagamohana Ramayana
The Jagamohana Ramayana (ଜଗମୋହନ ରାମାୟଣ) also known as the Dandi Ramayana popularly across Odisha is an epic poem composed by the 15th-century poet Balarama Dasa. Ramayana and Jagamohana Ramayana are Hindu texts.
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Jain cosmology
Jain cosmology is the description of the shape and functioning of the Universe (loka) and its constituents (such as living beings, matter, space, time etc.) according to Jainism.
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Jain literature
Jain literature (Sanskrit: जैन साहित्य) refers to the literature of the Jain religion.
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Jain monasticism
Jain monasticism refers to the order of monks and nuns in the Jain community and can be divided into two major denominations: the Digambara and the Śvētāmbara.
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Jainism
Jainism, also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion.
Jalabala Vaidya
Jalabala Vaidya (12 August 1936 – 9 April 2023) was an Indian stage actress.
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Janaka
Janaka (जनक, IAST: Janakā) is the King of Videha who ruled from Mithila, in the Hindu epic Ramayana.
Jatayu
Jatayu (जटायु) is a demigod in the Hindu epic Ramayana, who has the form of either an eagle or a vulture.
Java
Java is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia.
Javanese dance
Javanese dance (Tarian Jawa; translit) is the dances and art forms that were created and influenced by Javanese culture in Indonesia.
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Javanese people
The Javanese (Orang Jawa; ꦮꦺꦴꦁꦗꦮ, Wong Jawa; ꦠꦶꦪꦁꦗꦮꦶ, Tiyang Jawi) are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the central and eastern part of the Indonesian island of Java.
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Jnanpith Award
The Jnanpith Award is the oldest and the highest Indian literary award presented annually by the Bharatiya Jnanpith to an author for their "outstanding contribution towards literature".
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Juan R. Francisco
Juan R. Francisco is a Filipino Indologist who discovered the Maranao version of the Ramayana, that is native to the Philippines.
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Kabandha
In Hinduism, Kabandha (कबन्ध,, lit. "headless torso") is a Rakshasa (demon) who is killed and freed from a curse by the god Rama – an Avatar of Vishnu – and his brother Lakshmana.
Kaikeyi
Kaikeyi (Sanskrit: कैकेयी, IAST: Kaikeyī) is a princess of Kekeya and the queen of Kosala in the Hindu epic Ramayana.
Kakawin Ramayana
Kakawin Ramayana is an Old Javanese poem rendering of the Sanskrit Ramayana in kakawin meter.
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Kali
Kali (काली), also called Kalika, is a major Hindu goddess associated with time, change, creation, power, destruction and death in Shaktism.
Kambar (poet)
Kambar or Kavichakravarthy Kamban (1180 CE–1250 CE) was an Indian Tamil poet and the author of the Ramavataram, popularly known as Kambaramayanam, the Tamil version of the epic Ramayana.
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Kannada
Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ), formerly also known as Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states.
Kecak
Kecak (kécak, pronounced "kechak"), alternate spellings: kechak and ketjak), known in Indonesian as tari kecak, is a form of Balinese Hindu dance and music drama that was developed in the 1930s. Since its creation, it has been performed primarily by men, with the first women's kecak group having started in 2006.
Kevala jnana
Kevala jnana (केवल ज्ञान) or Kevala gyana, also known as Kaivalya, means omniscience in Jainism and is roughly translated as complete understanding or supreme wisdom.
Khmer language
Khmer (ខ្មែរ, UNGEGN) is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Khmer people and the official and national language of Cambodia.
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Kosala
Kosala, sometimes referred to as Uttara Kosala was one of the Mahajanapadas of ancient India.
Krishna
Krishna (Sanskrit: कृष्ण) is a major deity in Hinduism.
Krittibas Ojha
Mahakavi Krittibas Ojha (1381–1461) was a medieval Bengali poet.
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Krittivasi Ramayan
Kṛttivāsī Rāmāyaṇ,; also called Śrīrām Pãcālī, composed by the fourteenth-century Bengali poet Krittibas Ojha, from whom it takes its name, is a rendition of the Rāmāyaṇa into Bengali.
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Kulasekhara Alvar
Kulasekhara (Tamil: குலசேகரர்; IAST: Kulaśekhara) (fl. 9th century CE), one of the twelve Vaishnavite alvars, was a bhakti theologian and devotional poet from medieval south India.
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Kusha (Ramayana)
Kusha (कुश) and his younger twin brother Lava were the children of Rama and Sita.
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Kuvempu
Kuppalli Venkatappa Puttappa (29 December 1904 – 11 November 1994), popularly known by his pen name Kuvempu, was an Indian poet, playwright, novelist and critic.
Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra
The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra (Sanskrit: लिंकावतारसूत्र, "Discourse of the Descent into Laṅkā", ལང་ཀར་བཤེགས་པའི་མདོ་, Chinese: 入楞伽經) is a prominent Mahayana Buddhist sūtra.
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Lakshmana
Lakshmana (lit), also known as Laxmana, Saumitra and Ramanuja, is a Hindu god and the younger brother of Rama in the Hindu epic Ramayana.
Lanka
Lanka is the name given in Hindu epics to the island fortress capital of the legendary asura king Ravana in the epics of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
Lao language
Lao (Lao: ພາສາລາວ), sometimes referred to as Laotian, is the official language of Laos and a significant language in the Isan region of northeastern Thailand, where it is usually referred to as the Isan language.
Laos
Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), is the only landlocked country and one of the two Marxist-Leninist states in Southeast Asia.
Lava (Ramayana)
Lava (लव) and his elder twin brother Kusha, are the children of Rama and Sita in Hindu tradition.
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Lhasa Tibetan
Lhasa Tibetan, or Standard Tibetan, is the Tibetan dialect spoken by educated people of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region.
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Liberty Fund
Liberty Fund, Inc. is a nonprofit foundation headquartered in Carmel, Indiana, which promotes the libertarian views of its founder, Pierre F. Goodrich through publishing, conferences, and educational resources.
List of characters in Ramayana
Ramayana is one of the two major Sanskrit ancient epics (Itihasas) of Hindu literature.
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Madhava Kandali
Kaviraja Madhava Kandali (circa. 14th century) was an Indian poet from the state of Assam.
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Magadha
Magadha also called the Kingdom of Magadha or the Magadha Empire, was a kingdom and empire, and one of the sixteen lit during the Second Urbanization period, based in southern Bihar in the eastern Ganges Plain, in Ancient India.
Mahabharata
The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Smriti texts and Sanskrit epics of ancient India revered in Hinduism, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa. Ramayana and Mahabharata are epic poems in Sanskrit, Hindu poetry and Hindu texts.
Mahakali
Mahakali is the Hindu goddess of time and death in the goddess-centric tradition of Shaktism.
Maharadia Lawana
The Maharadia Lawana (sometimes spelled Maharadya Lawana or Maharaja Rāvaṇa) is a Maranao epic which tells a local version of the Indian epic Ramayana.
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Mainaka
Mainaka or Mainaka Parvata, is a mountain deity from the Hindu epic Ramayana, the son of Himavan and Mena.
Maithili language
Maithili is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in parts of India and Nepal.
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Malay language
Malay (Bahasa Melayu, Jawi: بهاس ملايو) is an Austronesian language that is an official language of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, and that is also spoken in East Timor and parts of Thailand.
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Malayalam
Malayalam is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people.
Malaysia
Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.
Maldives
The Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, and historically known as the Maldive Islands, is a country and archipelagic state in South Asia in the Indian Ocean.
Maldivian language
Dhivehi or Divehi (ދިވެހި), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the South Asian island country of Maldives and on Minicoy Island, Lakshadweep, a union territory of India.
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Mandodari
Mandodari (मंदोदरी,, lit. "soft-bellied") was the queen consort of Ravana, the king of Lanka, according to the Hindu epic Ramayana.
Manimekalai
Maṇimēkalai (மணிமேகலை), also spelled Manimekhalai or Manimekalai, is a Tamil-Buddhist epic composed by Kulavāṇikaṉ Seethalai Sataṉar probably somewhere between the 2nd century to the 6th century.
Manthara
Manthara (मन्थरा; lit: "humpbacked") is a character in the Hindu epic Ramayana. In the epic, she is described to have convinced Queen Kaikeyi that the throne of Ayodhya belonged to her son Bharata and that her step-son—crown-prince Rama (the protagonist of the Ramayana)—should be exiled from the kingdom.
Maranao people
The Maranao people (Maranao:; Filipino: Maranaw), also spelled Meranao, Maranaw, and Mëranaw, is a predominantly Muslim Filipino ethnic group native to the region around Lanao Lake in the island of Mindanao.
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Marathi language
Marathi (मराठी) is an Indo-Aryan language predominantly spoken by Marathi people in the Indian state of Maharashtra.
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Maricha
In the Hindu epic Ramayana, Maricha, or Mareecha (Sanskrit: मारीच, IAST: Mārīca) is a rakshasha, who was killed by Rama, the hero of the epic and an avatar of Vishnu.
Mataram Kingdom
The Mataram Kingdom (ꦩꦠꦫꦩ꧀); also known as Medang Kingdom was a Javanese Hindu-Buddhist kingdom that flourished between the 8th and 11th centuries.
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Maya Sita
In some adaptations of the Hindu epic Ramayana, Maya Sita (माया सीता, "illusional Sita") or Chaya Sita (छाया सीता, "shadow Sita") is the illusionary duplicate of the goddess Sita (the heroine in the texts), who is abducted by the demon-king Ravana of Lanka instead of the real Sita.
Mithila (region)
Mithila, also known as Tirhut, Tirabhukti and Mithilanchal, is a geographical and cultural region of the Indian subcontinent bounded by the Mahananda River in the east, the Ganges in the south, the Gandaki River in the west and by the foothills of the Himalayas in the north.
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Moksha (Jainism)
Sanskrit or Prakrit mokkha refers to the liberation or salvation of a soul from saṃsāra, the cycle of birth and death.
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Nala (Ramayana)
In the Hindu epic Ramayana, Nala (Sanskrit: नल, IAST: nala, lit. lotus), is the vanara (monkey), who is credited as the engineer of the Rama Setu, a bridge across the ocean between Rameswaram (Tamil nadu) and Lanka, identified with modern-day Sri Lanka, so forces of the god Rama can pass over to Lanka.
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Nammalvar
Nammalvar (Tamil: நம்மாழ்வார், lit. 'Our Alvar'; IAST Nammāḻvār) was one of the twelve Alvar saints of Tamil Nadu, India, who are known for their affiliation to the Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism.
Naraka (Jainism)
Naraka (Sanskrit: नरक) is the realm of existence in Jain cosmology characterized by great suffering.
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Nashik
Nashik, Marathi: naːʃik, formerly Nasik) is a city in the northern region of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
Nepali language
Nepali is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Himalayas region of South Asia.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.
Nila (Ramayana)
Nila, also spelled as Neela, is a character in the Hindu epic Ramayana.
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Odia language
Odia (ଓଡ଼ିଆ, ISO:,; formerly rendered as Oriya) is an Indo-Aryan classical language spoken in the Indian state of Odisha.
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Opera
Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.
Padma Purana
The Padma Purana (पद्मपुराण or पाद्मपुराण, or) is one of the eighteen Major Puranas, a genre of texts in Hinduism.
Padmanabh Jaini
Padmanabh Shrivarma Jaini (October 23, 1923 - May 25, 2021) was an Indian born scholar of Jainism and Buddhism, living in Berkeley, California, United States.
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Painting
Painting is a visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support").
Palk Strait
The Palk Strait (பாக்கு நீரிணை Pākku Nīriṇai, පෝක් සමුද්ර සන්ධිය Pok Samudra Sandhiya) is a strait between the Tamil Nadu state of India and the Jaffna District of the Northern Province of the island nation of Sri Lanka.
Penataran
Penataran or Panataran (Candi Penataran) is one of the largest Hindu temple ruins complexes in East Java, Indonesia.
Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.
Prambanan
Prambanan (Candi Prambanan, Rara Jonggrang) is a 9th-century Hindu temple compound in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, in southern Java, Indonesia, dedicated to the Trimūrti, the expression of God as the Creator (Brahma), the Preserver (Vishnu) and the Destroyer (Shiva).
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library.
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Pulpally
Pulpally is a mid-sized town in Wayanad District of Kerala, India.Pulpally also known as 'The land of black gold'.
Punokawan
In Javanese wayang (shadow puppets), the panakawan or panakavan (phanakavhan) are the clown servants of the hero.
Purananuru
The Purananuru (literally "four hundred in the genre puram"), sometimes called Puram or Purappattu, is a classical Tamil poetic work and traditionally the last of the Eight Anthologies (Ettuthokai) in the Sangam literature.
Puranas
Puranas (पुराण||ancient, old (1995 Edition), Article on Puranas,, page 915) are a vast genre of Hindu literature about a wide range of topics, particularly about legends and other traditional lore. Ramayana and Puranas are Hindu texts.
Puruṣārtha
Purushartha (Sanskrit: पुरुषार्थ, IAST) literally means "object(ive) of men".
Raghuveer Narayan
Raghuveer Narayan (31 October 1884 – 1 January 1955) or Raghubir Narayan was a Bhojpuri and English poet and a freedom fighter.
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Rakshasa
Rākshasa (राक्षस,,; rakkhasa; "preservers") are a race of usually malevolent beings prominently featured in Hindu mythology.
Rama
Rama is a major deity in Hinduism.
Rama in Jainism
Rama (Rāma), the hero of Ramayana, is described in the Jain scriptures as one of sixty-three illustrious persons, known as Salakapurusa. Ramayana and Rama in Jainism are Rama.
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Rama Natakam
The Rama Natakam is a Tamil Opera that was written by the Tamil poet Arunachala Kavi also known as Arunachala Kavirayar during the 18th century.
Ramakien
The (รามเกียรติ์,,;; sometimes also spelled) is one of Thailand's national epics.
Ramavataram
The Ramavataram, popularly referred to as Kamba Ramayanam, is a Tamil epic that was written by the Tamil poet Kambar during the 12th century.
Ramayana
The Ramayana (translit-std), also known as Valmiki Ramayana, as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics of Hinduism known as the Itihasas, the other being the Mahabharata. Ramayana and Ramayana are 6th-century BC poems, 7th-century BC poems, epic poems in Sanskrit, Hindu poetry, Hindu texts and Rama.
Ramayana Ballet
The Ramayana Ballet (Sendratari Ramayana) is a visualization and representation of the epic Ramayana saga, originally written by Valmiki in the Sanskrit language, in a highly stylized dance artform.
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Ramayana in Tamil literature
Ramayana is one of the ancient Indian epics.
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Ramayana Kalpavruksham
Srimadramayana Kalpavrukshamu, commonly referred to as Ramayana Kalpavruksham, is an Indian Telugu-language epic poetry work written by Viswanatha Satyanarayana.
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Ramcharitmanas
Ramcharitmanas (rāmacaritamānasa), is an epic poem in the Awadhi language, composed by the 16th-century Indian bhakti poet Tulsidas (c. 1511–1623). Ramayana and Ramcharitmanas are Hindu texts.
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Ramlila
Ramlila (literally 'Rama's lila or play') is any dramatic folk re-enactment of the life of Rama according to the ancient Hindu epic Ramayana or secondary literature based on it such as the Ramcharitmanas.
Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary is a large American dictionary, first published in 1966 as The Random House Dictionary of the English Language: The Unabridged Edition.
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Ranganatha
Ranganatha, also known as Ranganathar, Rangan, Aranganathar, Sri Ranga, and Thenarangathan, is a Hindu deity with his origin in southern India, serving as the chief deity of the Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple, Srirangam.
Ranganatha Ramayanamu
Sri Ranganatha Ramayanamu (Telugu: శ్రీ రంగనాథ రామాయణము) is a rendition of Valmiki's Rāmāyaṇa in Telugu language.
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Ravana
Ravana was an ancient mythological king of the island of Lanka, and the chief antagonist in the Hindu epic Ramayana.
Rāmakṛṣṇavilomakāvyaṃ
Rāmakṛṣṇavilomakāvyaṃ (रामकृष्णविलोमाकाव्यं) is a short Sanskrit poem in 36 verses in the genre of vilomakāvya composed by Sūryadasa (born 1508), also known as Sūrya Daivajña or Sūrya Paṇḑita, from Pārthapura.
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Reamker
Reamker (រាមកេរ្តិ៍, UNGEGN:, ALA-LC) is a Cambodian epic poem, based on the Sanskrit's Rāmāyana epic.
Rishi
In Indian religions, a rishi is an accomplished and enlightened person.
Robert P. Goldman
Robert Philip Goldman (born 1942) at WorldCat Identities is the William and Catherine Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Sanskrit at the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley,Maclay, Kathleen (6 September 2017).
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Romesh Chunder Dutt
Romesh Chunder Dutt (রমেশচন্দ্র দত্ত; 13 August 1848 – 30 November 1909) was an Indian civil servant, economic historian, translator of Ramayana and Mahabharata.
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Sampati
Sampati (सम्पाती; IAST) is a demigod in Hinduism.
Sandhi
Sandhi (lit) is any of a wide variety of sound changes that occur at morpheme or word boundaries.
Sangam literature
The Sangam literature (Tamil: சங்க இலக்கியம், caṅka ilakkiyam, Malayalam: സംഘസാഹിത്യം, saṅgha sāhityam), historically known as 'the poetry of the noble ones' (Tamil: சான்றோர் செய்யுள், Cāṉṟōr ceyyuḷ), connotes the early classical Tamil literature and is the earliest known literature of South India.
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Sanskrit
Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.
Sanskrit literature
Sanskrit literature broadly comprises all literature in the Sanskrit language.
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Sant (religion)
A sant (सन्त्; IAST) is a human being revered as a "truth-exemplar" for their abnormal level of "self, truth, reality" in Indic religions, particularly Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, and Buddhism.
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Saptakanda Ramayana
Saptakanda Ramayana is the 14th-15th century Assamese version of the Ramayana attributed to the famous Assamese poet Madhava Kandali. Ramayana and Saptakanda Ramayana are Hindu texts.
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Sarala Dasa
Sarala Dasa (born as Siddheswara Parida) was a 15th-century poet and scholar of Odia literature.
Semar
Semar is a character in Javanese mythology who frequently appears in wayang shadow plays.
Shabari
Sabari (शबरी) is an elderly woman ascetic in the Hindu epic Ramayana.
Shambuka
Shambuka (IAST: śambūka) is a character in some editions of the Ramayana.
Shloka
Shloka or śloka (श्लोक, from the root श्रु, Macdonell, Arthur A., A Sanskrit Grammar for Students, Appendix II, p. 232 (Oxford University Press, 3rd edition, 1927). in a broader sense, according to Monier-Williams's dictionary, is "any verse or stanza; a proverb, saying"; but in particular it refers to the 32-syllable verse, derived from the Vedic anuṣṭubh metre, used in the Bhagavad Gita and many other works of classical Sanskrit literature. Ramayana and Shloka are Hindu texts.
Shravasti
Shravasti (श्रावस्ती); translit) is a town in Shravasti district in Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It was the capital of the ancient Indian kingdom of Kosala and the place where the Buddha lived most after his enlightenment. It is near the Rapti river in the northeastern part of Uttar Pradesh India, close to the Nepalese border.
Shudra
Shudra or Shoodra (Sanskrit) is one of the four varnas of the Hindu caste and social system in ancient India.
Shurpanakha
Shurpanakha (Sanskrit: शूर्पणखा), is a rakshasi (demoness) in Hindu epic.
Sita
Sita, also known as Siya, Janaki and Maithili, is a Hindu goddess and the female protagonist of the Hindu epic Ramayana.
Smriti
Smriti Literature in Hinduism (स्मृति, IAST) The smṛti texts are a body of Hindu texts usually attributed to an author, traditionally written down, in contrast to Śrutis (the Vedic literature) considered authorless, that were transmitted verbally across the generations and fixed. Ramayana and Smriti are Hindu texts.
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania.
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Sri Ramayana Darshanam
Sri Ramayana Darshanam is the most popular work and the magnum opus by Kuvempu in Kannada based on the Hindu epic Ramayana.
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Srirangam
Srirangam is a neighbourhood in the city of Tiruchirappalli in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
Stone sculpture
A stone sculpture is an object made of stone which has been shaped, usually by carving, or assembled to form a visually interesting three-dimensional shape.
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Sugriva
Sugriva (lit), is a character In the ancient Hindu epic Ramayana.
Sundanese people
The Sundanese (Orang Sunda; ᮅᮛᮀ ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ|Urang Sunda) are an indigenous ethnic group native to the western region of Java island in Indonesia, primarily West Java. They number approximately 42 million and form Indonesia's second most populous ethnic group. They speak the Sundanese language, which is part of the Austronesian languages.
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Sundara Kanda
Sundara Kanda (translit) is the fifth book in the Hindu epic Ramayana. Ramayana and Sundara Kanda are Hindu texts.
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Syed Thajudeen
Syed Thajudeen Shaik Abu Talib (born 23, August 1943) is a Malaysian painter.
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Tamil language
Tamil (தமிழ்) is a Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia.
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Tamils
The Tamils, also known as the Tamilar, are a Dravidian ethnolinguistic group who natively speak the Tamil language and trace their ancestry mainly to India's southern state of Tamil Nadu, to the union territory of Puducherry, and to Sri Lanka.
Tara (Ramayana)
In the Hindu epic Ramayana, Tara (तारा) is the Queen of Kishkindha and the wife of the monkey (vanara) King Vali.
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Tataka
Tāṭakā is a minor yakṣī antagonist in the Rāmāyaṇa.
Telugu language
Telugu (తెలుగు|) is a Dravidian language native to the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, where it is also the official language.
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Terracotta
Terracotta, also known as terra cotta or terra-cotta, is a clay-based non-vitreous ceramicOED, "Terracotta";, MFA Boston, "Cameo" database fired at relatively low temperatures.
Textual criticism
Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts (mss) or of printed books.
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Thai language
Thai,In ภาษาไทย| ''Phasa Thai'' or Central Thai (historically Siamese;Although "Thai" and "Central Thai" have become more common, the older term, "Siamese", is still used by linguists, especially when it is being distinguished from other Tai languages (Diller 2008:6).
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Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.
The Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha ('the awakened'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism.
Thirumangai Alvar
Thirumangai Alvar (IAST), also referred to as Thirumangai Mannan is the last of the 12 Alvar saints of south India, who are known for their affiliation to the Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism.
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Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan
Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan (''fl.'' 16th century) was a Malayalam devotional poet, translator and linguist.
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Tirthankara
In Jainism, a Tirthankara is a saviour and supreme spiritual teacher of the dharma (righteous path).
Tulsidas
Rambola Dubey (11 August 1511 – 30 July 1623pp. 23–34.), known as Tulsidas, was a Vaishnava (Ramanandi) Hindu saint and poet, renowned for his devotion to the deity Rama.
Ubud
Ubud is a town on the Indonesian island of Bali in Ubud District, located amongst rice paddies and steep ravines in the central foothills of the Gianyar regency.
Uluwatu Temple
Uluwatu Temple (Pura (Luhur) Uluwatu) is a Balinese Hindu temple located on the south-western tip of the Bukit Peninsula in Uluwatu (South Kuta), Badung Regency, Bali, Indonesia.
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University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.
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University of Michigan Museum of Art
The University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) is one of the largest university art museums in the United States, located in Ann Arbor, Michigan with.
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University of the Philippines Manila
The University of the Philippines Manila (UPM; Unibersidad ng Pilipinas Maynila) is a public, coeducational, research university located in Ermita, Manila, Philippines.
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Vali (Ramayana)
Vali (वाली) also known as Bali, was a vanara and the king of Kishkindha in the Hindu epic Ramayana.
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Valmiki
Valmiki (Vālmīki) was a legendary poet who is celebrated as the traditional author of the epic Ramayana, based on the attribution in the text itself.
Vanara
In Hinduism, Vanara (forest-dwellers) are either monkeys, apes, or a race of forest-dwelling people.
Varanasi
Varanasi (ISO:,; also Benares, Banaras or Kashi) is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world.
Vasudeva
Vasudeva (Sanskrit: वसुदेव, IAST: Vasudeva), also called Anakadundubhi (anakas and dundubhis both refer to drums, after the musicians who played these instruments at the time of his birth), is the father of the Hindu deities Krishna (Vāsudeva, i.e. "son of Vasudeva"), Balarama, and Subhadra.
Vasudeva-hindi
Vasudeva-hindi (IAST: Vasudevahiṇḍī, "Vasudeva's wanderings") is a Jain text by Sangha-dasa, probably from 5th century India.
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Verse (poetry)
A verse is formally a single metrical line in a poetic composition.
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Versions of the Ramayana
Depending on the methods of counting, as many as three hundred versions of the Indian Hindu epic poem, the Ramayana, are known to exist. Ramayana and versions of the Ramayana are epic poems in Sanskrit and Hindu texts.
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Vibhishana
Vibhishana is the younger brother of Ravana, the King of Lanka, in the ancient Indian epic Ramayana.
Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
Vietnamese language
Vietnamese (tiếng Việt) is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily in Vietnam where it is the national and official language.
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Viswanatha Satyanarayana
Viswanatha Satyanarayana (10 September 1895 – 18 October 1976) was a 20th-century Telugu writer.
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Vulture
A vulture is a bird of prey that scavenges on carrion.
Wat Phra Kaew
Wat Phra Kaew (วัดพระแก้ว), commonly known in English as the Temple of the Emerald Buddha and officially as Wat Phra Si Rattana Satsadaram, is regarded as the most sacred Buddhist temple in Thailand.
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Wayanad district
Wayanad is a district in the north-east of the Indian state of Kerala, with administrative headquarters at the municipality of Kalpetta.
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Wayang
(translit) is a traditional form of puppet theatre play originating from the Indonesian island of Java.
Wayang kulit
(ꦮꦪꦁꦏꦸꦭꦶꦠ꧀) is a traditional form of shadow puppetry originally found in the cultures of Java and Bali in Indonesia.
Wayang wong
Wayang wong, also known as wayang orang (literally "human wayang"), is a type of classical Javanese and Balinese dance theatrical performance with themes taken from episodes of the Ramayāna or Mahabharāta.
Wereldmuseum Amsterdam
The Wereldmuseum Amsterdam (known as Tropenmuseum (Museum of the Tropics) between 1950 and 2023) is an ethnographic museum located in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 1864.
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Yaśodharā
Yaśodharā or Yashodhara (Yasodharā, translit) was the wife of Prince Siddhartha — until he left his home to become a śramaṇa— the mother of Rāhula, and the sister of Mahaprajapati Gautami.
Yajna
Yajna (also pronounced as Yag) (lit) in Hinduism refers to any ritual done in front of a sacred fire, often with mantras.
Yogyakarta
Yogyakarta (ꦔꦪꦺꦴꦒꦾꦏꦂꦠ; Jogjakarta) is the capital city of the Special Region of Yogyakarta in Indonesia, in the south-central part of the island of Java.
7th century BC
The 7th century BC began the first day of 700 BC and ended the last day of 601 BC.
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See also
6th-century BC poems
- Catalogue of Women
- Nostoi
- Ode to Polycrates
- Phoronis (epic poem)
- Ramayana
- Song of the Yue Boatman
- Telegony
7th-century BC poems
- Aethiopis
- Catalogue of Women
- Cypria
- Iliupersis
- Little Iliad
- Nostoi
- Phoronis (epic poem)
- Ramayana
- Types of Women
Epic poems in Sanskrit
- Adbhuta Ramayana
- Bhaṭṭikāvya
- Buddhacharita
- Gita milindam
- Gitaramayanam
- Hammira Mahakavya
- Keralodayam Mahakavyam
- Kirātārjunīya
- Kristubhagavatam
- Kumārasambhava
- Mahabharata
- Mahakavya
- Mushika-vamsha
- Naishadha Charita
- Nava-sahasanka-charita
- Parishishtaparvan
- Prithviraja Vijaya
- Raghuvaṃśa
- Ramayana
- Rukminisha Vijaya
- Shishupala Vadha
- Shribhargavaraghaviyam
- Shringara-Prakasha
- Suparṇākhyāna
- Versions of the Ramayana
- Vina-Vasavadatta
- Yadavabhyudaya
- Ādi purāṇa
Hindu poetry
- Abhang
- Achyuta Shataka
- Annada Mangal
- Ashtavakra
- Atmopadesa Śatakam
- Bilanka Ramayana
- Gopalavimshati
- I Would Know You Anywhere
- Jungle Nama
- Kumārasambhava
- Mahabharata
- Meghadūta
- Ovi (poetry)
- Paduka Sahasra
- Pinjada Ko Suga
- Raghuvira Gadyam
- Ramayana
- Songs of realization
- Uttararamacarita
- Vedas
- Yadavabhyudaya
Rama
- Ancestors of Rama
- Ayodhya
- Balak Ram (idol)
- Exile of Rama
- Gondavalekar Maharaj
- Historicity of Rama
- Jai Shri Ram
- Jai Siya Ram
- Pundarikakshan Perumal Temple
- Raavan: Enemy of Aryavarta
- Ram Janmabhoomi
- Rama
- Rama Navami
- Rama in Jainism
- Rama in Sikhism
- Rama's Journey in Mithila
- Ramayana
- Scion of Ikshvaku
- Sita: Warrior of Mithila
- Symbolism of Rama
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramayana
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