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Ramayana, (Sanskrit: “Rama’s Journey”)shorter of the two great epic poems of India, the other being the Mahabharata .The Ramayana was composed in Sanskrit, probably not before 300 BCE, by the poet Valmiki. The epic describes the ups and downs of the god Rama and his wife, Sita, and the struggles of the ancient Indian courts and nations.
The poem enjoys immense popularity in India, where its recitation is considered an act of great merit. Little is known of Valmiki as a historical figure, though he is described as having been a thief named Ratnakara prior to becoming a sage.
Many translations of the Ramayana into the vernacular languages are themselves works of great literary artistry, including the Tamil version of Kampan, the Bengali version of Krittibas, and the Hindi version, Ramcharitmanas, of Tulsidas. Throughout North India the events of the poem are enacted in an annual pageant, the Ram Lila, and in South India the two epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, make up the story repertoire of the kathakali dance-drama of Malabar. The Ramayana was popular during the Mughal period (16th century), and it was a favourite subject of Rajasthani and Pahari painters of the 17th and 18th centuries.
The story also spread in various forms throughout Southeast Asia (especially Cambodia, Indonesia, and Thailand), and its heroes, together with the Pandava brothers of the Mahabharata, were also the heroes of traditional Javanese-Balinese theatre, dance, and shadow plays. Incidents from the Ramayana are carved in bas-relief on many Indonesian monuments
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