RAMAYANA
Ramayana
The Ramayana is one of the great Hindu epics. It is ascribed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu literature, considered to be itihāasa. The Ramayana is one of the two great epics of Hinduism, the other being the Mahabharata. It depicts the duties of relationships, portraying ideal characters like the ideal father, ideal servant, the ideal brother, the ideal wife and the ideal king. The name Ramayana is a tatpurusha compound of ' and ', translating to "Rama's Journey". The Ramayana consists of 24,000 verses in seven books and 500 cantos, and tells the ...The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Ramayana
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