Ramáyana I: Boyhood (The Clay Sanskrit library) -

Valmiki

New York University Press

2005

423 páginas

14h 6m

ISBN-13: 9780814731635

Here is a new Clay Sanskrit Library publication of Book One (of seven) of Valmiki’s Ramayana, the source revered throughout South Asia as the original account of the career of Rama, ideal man and incarnation of the great god Vishnu." "In "Boyhood," Rama, the crown prince of the city of Ayodhya, is a model son and warrior. His father, King Dasharatha, sends him to rescue a sage from persecution by demons, but first Rama must kill a fearsome ogress. That done, he drives out the demons, restores peace and attends a tournament in the neighboring city of Mithila; here he bends the bow that no other warrior can handle, winning the prize and the hand of Sita, the princess of Mithila. He and Sita and his brothers and their wives return in triumph to be feted in Ayodhya."