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Scenes From The Ramayan Etc.

by RALPH T. H. GRIFFITH
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9788121225878
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
  • Publisher Imprint: Gyan Publishing House
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  • Pages: 168
  • Original Price: INR 340.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 328 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): N/A

There are two recensions of the Ramayana, one belonging to Benares and the North-West of India, the other to Bengal proper. The Ramayana is the oldest and most glorious poem if India, and its author, the saint Valmiki, who is consequently called Adi-kavi or the Father of poetry, is held in the greatest veneration. The account given in the beginning of the poem, of the incidents which led to its composition beautifully harmonizes with the main composition and touchingly shows how exquisitely tender and pure was that saintly heart which breathed forth a poem unrivalled perhaps in the world for its pathos and moral purity. One day the saint accompanied by his disciple resorted to the holy stream Tamasa and finding the waters pure as the heart of the good asked his disciple to fetch his garment of bark. He put it on, and descended into the stream, performed his ablutions and muttered his prayers. Thus this book is the product of extensive study and research of this epic.

Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith (1826–1906) was an English Indologist, a member of the Indian education service and among the first Europeans to translate the Vedas into English. He lived in the UK (Oxford) and in India (Benares and Nilgiris). He translated the Vedic scriptures into English. He also produced translations of other Sanskrit literature, including a verse version of the Ramayana and the Kumara Sambhava of Kalidasa. He held the position of principal at the Benares College in India and later lived in Kotagiri, Nilgiri. He was more interested in translating Vedic books into English, and did most of his translations while living, teaching and researching in Kotagiri in the Nilgiris. His translation of the Rigveda follows the text of Max Müller's six-volume Sanskrit edition. His readings generally follow the work of the great scholar Sayana, who was Prime Minister at the court of the King of Vijaynagar in what is now the District of Bellary in the Indian state of Karnataka during the fourteenth century.

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