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The Ramayana of Valmiki: Condensed from Sanskrit and Transcreated into English, 1/e

The Ramayana of Valmiki: Condensed from Sanskrit and Transcreated into English, 1/e

Vikas Publishing
  • 9789370636866
  • 408 pages
  • Paperback
  • 5.50" x 8.25" inches
  • Book 699.00
  • 2026

Valmiki's RAMAYANA, one of the greatest stories of all time, has been sung and chanted down the centuries by peoples from the farthest corners of the Indian continent.

This epic about Dharma, as though through a kind of cyclical journey — of birth and memory, death and forgetfulness — was discovered again and yet again by generations born endlessly becoming, until it became, the very sanskara of its people.

P. Lal's contemporary transcreation — condensed from the Sanskrit and rendered into English and specially brought out for our readers, young and old — comes at a time when the sanskara has begun its journey of erosion. However, none can miss its magical spell nor escape its profound message about redemption. 

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P. Lal (Purusho ama Lal) was a tan of Indian English literature. He was a dis nguished academic and a Padma Shri awardee. In 1958, he founded the Writers Workshop to champion experimental voices and establish English as a crea ve vehicle for original Indian literature. A renowned poet and translator, he is famously known for his "transcrea ons" of the Mahabharata and Ramayana from original Sanskrit texts which remain a defini ve bridge between ancient Sanskrit and modern readers in English language.