Valmiki
Adbhuta Rāmāyaṇa (The Wondrous Rāmāyaṇa)
Traditional attribution
Adbhuta Rāmāyaṇa (The Wondrous Rāmāyaṇa)
अद्भुतरामायण (Adbhutarāmāyaṇa)
A Śākta rewriting of the story of Rāma in which the leading role passes to Sītā: after Rāvaṇa's death a thousand-headed Rāvaṇa appears whom Rāma cannot defeat, and Sītā, transformed into the goddess Kālī, destroys him. An example of how Vālmīki's name served to lend authority to new theological readings of the story.
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Authorship note
A late text of uncertain date that presents itself as Vālmīki's work; the attribution is pseudepigraphic.
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- Araṇyakāṇḍa (Book of the Forest)
- Kiṣkindhākāṇḍa (Book of Kiṣkindhā)
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- Yuddhakāṇḍa (Book of the War)
- Uttarakāṇḍa (The Last Book)
- Yoga Vāsiṣṭha (Mahārāmāyaṇa) · 1100
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- Gaṅgāṣṭaka (Eight Stanzas to the Ganges)
Sources
- Wikipedia (inglés), «Valmiki», sobre la leyenda de Ratnākara en el Adhyātma Rāmāyaṇa y otras fuentes tardías, y sobre la comunidad que lo venera.
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