Le Râmâyana - tome premier by Valmiki

"Le Râmâyana - tome premier" by Valmiki is a Sanskrit epic composed between the 7th and 4th centuries BCE. This ancient Hindu text follows Prince Rama's fourteen-year exile to the forest, accompanied by his wife Sita and brother Lakshmana. Their journey takes a dramatic turn when Ravana, king of Lanka, kidnaps Sita, triggering a violent conflict. The epic explores the duties of relationships and portrays ideal characters, teaching lessons about virtue essential to both personal life and the formation of a just society. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Valmiki
Translator Fauche, Hippolyte, 1797-1869
Title Le Râmâyana - tome premier
Poème sanscrit de Valmiky
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramayana Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramayana
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Reading Level Reading ease score: 68.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language French
LoC Class PK: Language and Literatures: Indo-Iranian literatures
Subject Folklore -- India
Subject Rama (Hindu deity) -- Fiction
Subject Epic poetry, Sanskrit -- Translations into French
Category Text
eBook-No. 20479
Release Date
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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