Traditional attribution
Kiṣkindhākāṇḍa (Book of Kiṣkindhā)
किष्किन्धाकाण्ड (Kiṣkindhākāṇḍa)
Rāma seals an alliance with Sugrīva, the dispossessed king of the monkeys, and kills his brother Vālin by shooting him from hiding, an episode commentators have debated for centuries. After the rainy season, the monkeys set out in search of Sītā in the four directions; the southern party, with Hanumān, learns from the vulture Sampāti that she is in Laṅkā.
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Authorship note
Book of the Rāmāyaṇa ascribed by tradition to Vālmīki. A work of oral composition and centuries-long growth; see the note to the complete work.
Editions and translations
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English
The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki, Vol. IV: Kiṣkindhākāṇḍa
Princeton University Press, 1994
Translation: Rosalind Lefeber
ISBN 9780691066615
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Valmiki
किष्किन्धाकाण्ड (texto sánscrito)
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Sources
- Brockington, John. The Sanskrit Epics. Leiden: Brill, 1998 (Handbuch der Orientalistik, 2. Abt., Bd. 12). Capítulos sobre el Rāmāyaṇa: transmisión, recensiones, estratos y datación.
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