![]() ![]() ![]() And in a version popular among Dalits in Maharashtra, Raavan is seen as a hero.īut most people were introduced to the story of Ram through television or the Amar Chitra Katha comics (they have the Valmiki version and the Tulsidas one too). In a Jain version, Raavan is a sympathetic character, and Ram and Sita end up as a monk and nun. The 16th century poet Tulsidas mourns the rise of lower castes to influential positions (as opposed to Ram Rajya, where everyone knew his place) in the Ramcharitmanas. It was only later that the prince of Ayodhya was presented as an incarnation of Vishnu. The oldest manuscript is a palm-leaf that was found in Nepal, dated 1020CE. Although the Ramayan may have existed in some form even before, his version is considered the standard for most translations into English. Sometime around the beginning of the Common Era, Valmiki wrote the first narrative of the epic in Sanskrit. RK Narayan once wrote that almost every Indian “is aware of the story of the Ramayana in some measure or other.”
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