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Rāmāyaṇa (The Journey of Rāma)

रामायण (Rāmāyaṇa)

Nārada en la ermita de Vālmīki
byValmiki

Sanskrit epic of some twenty-four thousand stanzas, according to tradition, in seven books: Bāla, Ayodhyā, Araṇya, Kiṣkindhā, Sundara, Yuddha and Uttara. It narrates the life of Rāma, prince of Ayodhyā: his fourteen-year exile, the abduction of his wife Sītā by Rāvaṇa, king of Laṅkā, the alliance with the monkeys and with Hanumān, the war and the return to the throne. A model of learned poetry (kāvya) and of the ideal of dharma, it is the source of hundreds of versions across Asia.

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Authorship note

Tradition ascribes it to Vālmīki, who appears in the poem itself as its author and as a character. Philology regards it as a work of oral composition and staged growth: a core in books II–VI (eighth to fifth centuries BCE according to Goldman; from the fifth century BCE according to Brockington) and books I and VII added in the first centuries CE. The existence of an individual author cannot be proved.

Editions and translations

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English

  • The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: The Complete English Translation

    Princeton University Press, 2021

    Translation: Robert P. Goldman, Sally J. Sutherland Goldman et al.

    ISBN 9780691206868

    Edición en un volumen de la traducción de Princeton (1984–2016).

  • Valmiki Ramayana (3 vols.)

    Penguin Books India, 2017

    Translation: Bibek Debroy

    ISBN 9780143428046

    Traducción íntegra de la edición crítica; ISBN del vol. 1.

    View in store · Penguin Random House India
  • The Rāmāyaṇa (versión abreviada) — Valmiki

    The Rāmāyaṇa (versión abreviada)

    Penguin Books India, 2000

    Translation: Arshia Sattar

    ISBN 9780140298666

    Primera edición Viking, 1996 (ISBN 9780670872732).

  • The Rāmāyaṇa (4 vols.)

    Calcuta (ed. del traductor), 1891

    Translation: Manmatha Nath Dutt

    1891–1894; dominio público.

  • The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse (5 vols.)

    Trübner, Londres; E. J. Lazarus, Benarés, 1870

    Translation: Ralph T. H. Griffith

    1870–1874; dominio público.

Français

  • Le Râmâyana (trad. Fauche)

    Librairie internationale, París, 1864

    Translation: Hippolyte Fauche

    Dominio público; tomos 1 y 2 en Wikisource.

  • Le Rāmāyaṇa de Vālmīki (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade) — Valmiki

    Le Rāmāyaṇa de Vālmīki (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade)

    Gallimard, 1999

    Translation: Dir. Madeleine Biardeau y Marie-Claude Porcher

    ISBN 9782070112944

Sánscrito · संस्कृतम्

  • The Vālmīki-Rāmāyaṇa: Critical Edition (7 vols.)

    Oriental Institute, Baroda, 1960

    Ed. G. H. Bhatt, U. P. Shah et al., 1960–1975.

Deutsch

  • Das Ramayana des Valmiki

    Diederichs, 1981

    Translation: Claudia Schmölders (versión alemana)

    ISBN 9783424007169

    Con epílogo de Günter Metken.

Español

  • El Ramayana

    Juventud (distribución Lectorum), 1984

    ISBN 9788426432049

    Edición divulgativa; traductor no indicado en Open Library.

  • Ramayana

    Iberia, Barcelona, 1990

    ISBN 9788470821820

    Traductor no indicado en Open Library.

  • El Ramayana (2 tomos) — Valmiki

    El Ramayana (2 tomos)

    Clásicos Bergua, 2001

    ISBN 9788470830488

    Traductor no indicado en Open Library.

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Sources

  • Goldman, Robert P. (trad. e introd.). The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India. Vol. I: Bālakāṇḍa. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. Introducción (autor, fecha, el episodio de las grullas y el marco del poema).

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