The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic Tolkien’s epic adventure The Lord

Tolkien’s epic adventure The Lord of the Rings

panoramic account of this vast and terrible conflict is destined to take its place among the classics of world history

life decisions

as well as a corresponding interior

and finally win him the girl

The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic Tolkien’s epic adventure The LordThe greatest Indian epic, one of the world's supreme masterpieces of storytelling A Penguin Classic A sweeping tale of abduction, battle, and courtship played out in a universe of deities and demons, The Ramayana is familiar to virtually every Indian. Although the Sanskrit original was composed by Valmiki around the fourth century BC, poets have produced countless versions in different languages. Here, drawing on the work of an eleventh century poet