Ramayana

Name: Ramayana
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ISBN: 9780520227033

ISBN-10: 0520227034

ISBN-13: 9780520227033

Edition: 2000

Authors: William Buck, B. A. van Nooten, Shirley Triest

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Few works in world literature have inspired so vast an audience, in nations with radically different languages and cultures, as theRamayanaandMahabharata,two Sanskrit verse epics written some 2,000 years ago. InRamayana(written by a poet known to us as Valmiki), William Buck has retold the story of Prince Rama--with all its nobility of spirit, courtly intrigue, heroic renunciation, fierce battles, and triumph of good over evil--in a length and manner that will make the great Indian epics accessible to the contemporary reader. The same is true for theMahabharata--in its original Sanskrit, probably the longest Indian epic ever composed. It is the story of a dynastic struggle, between the…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/13/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 461
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

William Buck(1933-1970) was a Sanskritist, devoting his life's work to modern retellings of theRamayana, Mahabharata,and the unfinishedHarivamsa.



Publisher's Preface


Introduction


List of Characters



The Prince of Ayodhya


Born as a Man


The Thorn in the World's Side


Taste This Water


The Two Wishes


Lord of the Wild Trees


Bharata Returns


The Sandals



Sita's Rescue


Dandaka Forest


The Golden Deer


Hanuman!


The Search


Hanuman's Jump


Here I Am


The New Moon


The Building of the Bridge


The Siege of Lanka


The Invisible Warrior


Ravana and Time



The Dharma Wheel


Here's Love!


The Wonderful Return


In What Dream?


Farewell Again, My Lady and My King