Versions and translations

>Hindi version called the

Rama Charita >Manasa
by Tulsi Das (16th
century)
Tamil version by Written in high Sanskrit in
>Kampan the form of 24,000 rhyming
Bengali version by couplets in seven books
Krttibas Type of text: Itihasa (history) – narrative (kandas) Means “Journey of
traditions composed during the period Rama” or “March of
500 BC to 1000 AD; tell stories of divine
incarnations along with much Rama”
philosophical and ethical reflection;
include the Mahabharata and
Ramayana epics as well as the Written by the poet
Puranas.
VALMIKI
GLIMPSE OF THE STORY
Story of a virtuous king named
Rama who is banished to the
forest, where he has many
adventures, then he rescues his
wife Sita from the evil king of Sri
Lanka with the help of his friends.
CHARACTERS
revered as the “Adi
Kavi” or “the First Poet”
Rama - 7th incarnation of Vishnu and
virtuous king of Ayodhya
Sita - incarnation of Lakshmi
He invented the shloka
Ravana - evil king of Sri Lanka (Sanskrit verse consisting
of two sixteen-syllable
lines of two eight-syllable
Hanuman - monkey-general and padas [any inflected
devotee of Rama word, noun or verb] each)
Sugriva - king of the monkeys which set the base and
Contains 7 sections (kandas):
Lakshman - Rama's devoted half- Rama and Sita are seen defined the form to
brother Bal Kanda - Rama's boyhood Sanskrit poetry
as the ideal married
Ayodhya Kanda - Rama's life in Ayodhya until his
couple in India
banishment
Two Indian holidays derived from the Ramayana Sundara - Rama's journey to Sri
Aranya - Rama's life in the forest and his abduction
Dussehra – a fourteen-day festival in October which commemorates Lanka
by Ravana
the siege of Lanka and Rama’s victory over Ravana, the demon king
of Lanka Kishkinda - Rama's stay at Kishkinda, the capital
Yuddhaof (or Lanka) - Rama's battle
Divali – the October-November festival of lights which celebrates his monkey ally Sugriva with Ravana, the recovery of Sita
Rama and Sita’s return home to Ayodhya. and their return to Ayodhya

o Uttara - Rama's
life as king in