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Updated: June 7, 2025
The blank windows are cut out of the wall, and finished with stone railings or balconies of curiously twisted columns; and the different compartments are equally covered with sculptures of subjects taken from the Ramayana. Here are Lakshman and Hanuman leading their warriors against Rawana, some with ten heads, others with many arms. The monkeys are building the stone bridge over the sea.
"My father's not only a Baronet. He's a rather famous artist Sir Nevil Sinclair. Perhaps you've heard the name?" She wrinkled her brows. "N-no. You see, we do live in blinkers! What's his line?" "Mostly Indian subjects " "Oh, the Ramayána man? I remember I did see a lovely thing of his before I came out here. But then ?" She stood still and drew away from him. "One heard he had married...." "Yes.
The poor Raiput was awfully sleepy, but he stuck heroically to his duties, and, thoughtfully pulling his beard, led us all through the endless labyrinth of metaphysical entanglements of the Ramayana. During the entr'actes we were offered coffee, sherbets, and cigarettes, which we smoked even during the performance, sitting in front of the stage in the first row.
The approach of Rama puts an end to the contest. Lava's elder brother Kusa has heard of his fight and comes to "eradicate from the world the name of emperor." But Lava has become calm and asks his brother to pay respects to the hero of the Ramayana. Rama embraces both of them and is moved with their son-like touch.
His Râmâyana which is an original composition and not a translation of Vâlmîki's work is one of the great religious poems of the world and not unworthy to be set beside Paradise Lost. The sustained majesty of diction and exuberance of ornament are accompanied by a spontaneity and vigour rare in any literature, especially in Asia.
Carey the only Sanskrit scholar in India besides Colebrooke The motive of the missionary scholar Plans translation of the sacred books of the East Comparative philology from Leibniz to Carey Hindoo and Mohammedan codes and colleges of Warren Hastings The Marquis Wellesley The College of Fort William founded Character of the Company's civil and military servants Curriculum of study, professors and teachers The vernacular languages Carey's account of the college and his appointment How he studied Sanskrit College Disputation Day in the new Government House Carey's Sanskrit speech Lord Wellesley's eulogy Sir James Mackintosh Carey's pundits He projects the Bibliotheca Asiatica On the Committee of the Bengal Asiatic Society Edition and translation of the Ramayana epic The Hitopadesa His Universal Dictionary Influence of Carey on the civil and military services W. B. Bayley; B. H. Hodgson; R. Jenkins; R. M. and W. Bird; John Lawrence.
Both poems appear, however, to have acquired a reputation for unusual sanctity. The difference between the Kavi and Indian versions of these epics seems to afford additional evidence if any such were needed that neither the Mahabharata nor the Ramayana is the work of a single mind, but that both are a collection or compilation of myths.
To this later period of Brahminism belongs also the alteration of the old epics, the Ramayana and Mahabharata, by which the heroes Rama and Krishna are represented as avatars, that is incarnations or human impersonations, of Vishnu.
In the famous Hindoo epic, the "Ramayana" of Valmiki, "by singing and hearing which continually a man may attain to the highest state of enjoyment, and be shortly admitted to fraternity with the gods," the exploits of Hoonamunta, the Divine Monkey, are gravely related, with a dramatic force and figurativeness that hold a street audience spell-bound; but to the European imagination the childish drollery of the plot is irrestistible.
This estimate of the superiority of the elephant of Ceylon, if it ever prevailed in India, was not current there at a very early period; for in the Ramayana, which is probably the oldest epic in the world, the stud of Dasartha, the king of Ayodhya, was supplied with elephants from the Himalaya and the Vindhya Mountains.
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