Valmiki
Sundarakāṇḍa (The Beautiful Book)
Traditional attribution
Sundarakāṇḍa (The Beautiful Book)
सुन्दरकाण्ड (Sundarakāṇḍa)
Hanumān's book: the leap across the ocean, the night search through Rāvaṇa's city, the meeting with the captive Sītā in the aśoka grove, to whom he gives Rāma's ring, and the burning of Laṅkā with his own blazing tail. It is the book most recited in worship, and the one Robert Goldman sings in Sanskrit in a University of Berkeley recording.
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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.
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Sánscrito · संस्कृतम्
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सुन्दरकाण्ड (texto sánscrito)
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- Gaṅgāṣṭaka (Eight Stanzas to the Ganges)
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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