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Overview of the Ramayana Epic

The Ramayana is one of the two great epic poems of India and was composed in Sanskrit by the poet Valmiki. It describes the royal birth of the god Rama in the kingdom of Ayodhya and his tutelage under the sage Vishvamitra. The poem also tells of Rama successfully bending Shiva's mighty bow at a tournament, which wins him the hand of Sita, daughter of King Janaka, in marriage.

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Overview of the Ramayana Epic

The Ramayana is one of the two great epic poems of India and was composed in Sanskrit by the poet Valmiki. It describes the royal birth of the god Rama in the kingdom of Ayodhya and his tutelage under the sage Vishvamitra. The poem also tells of Rama successfully bending Shiva's mighty bow at a tournament, which wins him the hand of Sita, daughter of King Janaka, in marriage.

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Ramayana, ( Sanskrit: Ramas Journey)

shorter of the two great epic poems of India, the other being theMahabharata (Great
Epic of the Bharata Dynasty). TheRamayana was composed in Sanskrit, probably not
before 300 BCE, by the poet Valmiki and in its present form consists of some
24,000 couplets divided into seven books.

The poem describes the royal birth


of the god Rama in the kingdom of Ayodhya (Oudh), his tutelage under the sage

Vishvamitra, and his success in bending Shivas mighty bow at the bridegroom
tournament of Sita, the daughter of King Janaka, thus winning her for his ... (100 of 523
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