In Valmiki's Ramayana, Book III, Canto VI, an account of anchorites and holy men is given, who flocked around Rama when he came to Śarabhanga's hermitage.

In the Ramayana ( Book III: Vana Parva, Section 271 ff.

Examples of such epics include the Nibelungenlied of the Germanic people, the Iliad for the Ancient Greeks and Hellenized societies, the Silappadhikaram of the South Indian people, the Ramayana and Mahabharata of the North Indian people, the Gilgamesh of the Mesopotamian-Sumerian civilization and the people of the Fertile Crescent at large, The Book of One Thousand and One Nights ( Arabian nights ) of the Arab world and the Sundiata epic of the Mandé people.

According to the story set forth in the Ramayana and ( in an abbreviated version ) in the Mahabharata ( Book III: Varna Parva, Section 271 ff.

These verses belong to Yuddha Khanda ( Book 6 ) Canto 107, in the Ramayana as composed by Valmiki.

The killing of Shambuka appears in the Valmiki Ramayana, Book 7, the ' Uttarakanda ' Chapter, sargas 73-76, in the Adhyatma Ramayana version of Ramayana.

* Ramayana, Book IV, Canto 16: online text for the section of the Ramayana of Valmiki describing Bali's death at the hands of Rama.

* The Forest Book of the Ramayana of Kampan

The mytheme of Garuda carrying off an elephant that was battling a Crocodile appears in two Sanskrit epics, the Mahabharata ( I. 1353 ) and the Ramayana ( III. 39 ).

* Van or Vana, meaning forest in Sanskrit, Hindi and many Indian languages, giving rise to terms like Vana Parva ( the Episode of Forest ) in the epic Ramayana

* Van or Vana, meaning Forest in Sanskrit, Hindi and many Indian languages, giving rise to terms like Vana Parva ( the Episode of Forest ) in the epic Ramayana.

Quotes from Ramayana: Saint Valmiki was going to the river Ganga for his daily ablutions.

The Mahabharata, Ramayana, numerous Puranas and some foreign sources numerously attest that Kamboja cavalry was frequently requisitioned in ancient wars.

The concept of diplomatic immunity can be found in ancient Indian epics like Ramayana ( between 500 and 301 BC ) and Mahabharata ( around 4th century BC ) where messengers and diplomats were given immunity from capital punishment.

In Ramayana, when the demon king Ravana ordered the killing of Hanuman, Ravana's younger brother Vibhishana pointed out that messengers or diplomats should not be killed or arrested, as per ancient practices.

Some of the most famous examples of epic poetry include the Ramayana, Mahabharata, Iliad and the Odyssey.

* Clay Sanskrit Library publishes classical Indian literature, including the Mahabharata and Ramayana, with facing-page text and translation.

The First Night in Exile-This painting comes from a celebrated series illustrating one of Hinduism ’ s great epics, the Ramayana.

Earlier Indian epics such as Vyasa's Mahabharata and Valmiki's Ramayana also contained fables within the main story, often as side stories or back-story.

These are the " heroic " societies familiar to us from epics like the Iliad and the Ramayana.

The Mahabharata ( Sanskrit, ) is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Ramayana.

Among the principal works and stories that are a part of the Mahabharata are the Bhagavad Gita, the story of Damayanti, an abbreviated version of the Ramayana, and the Rishyasringa, often considered as works in their own right.

About 1. 8 million words in total, the Mahabharata is roughly ten times the length of the Iliad and Odyssey combined, or about four times the length of the Ramayana.

Oracles played key roles in many of the major incidents of the epics Mahabharata and Ramayana.

Other ancient epic poetry includes the Greek epics Iliad and Odyssey, the Old Iranian books the Gathic Avesta and Yasna, the Roman national epic, Virgil's Aeneid, and the Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata.

Examples of epic poems are Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid, the Nibelungenlied, Luís de Camões ' Os Lusíadas, the Cantar de Mio Cid, the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Mahabharata, Valmiki's Ramayana, Ferdowsi's Shahnama, Nizami ( or Nezami )' s Khamse ( Five Books ), and the Epic of King Gesar.

In addition to the Vedas, the principal texts of Hinduism, the core themes of the Sanskrit epics Ramayana and Mahabharata are said to have their ultimate origins during this period.

The name derives from the Sanskrit श ् र ी ल ं क ा śrī ( venerable ) and lankā ( island ), the name of the island in the ancient Indian epics Mahabharata and the Ramayana.

One of the first written references to the island is found in the Indian epic Ramayana, which provides details of a kingdom named Lanka that had been created by the divine sculptor Vishwakarma, for Kubera, the lord of wealth.

The ancient Indian epic Ramayana mentions cloves.

Some mentions of the country are found in the Ramayana, the Mahabharata and the books of Gautama Buddha's teachings.

The Ramayana has Rama as a descendant of the Surya, thus belonging to the Suryavansha or the clan of the Sun.

In particular, the theatrical version of Thailand's national epic Ramakien, a version of the Indian Ramayana, remains popular in Thailand even today.

* Khmer and Malay theatre – In Cambodia, at the ancient capital Angkor Wat, stories from the Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata have been carved on the walls of temples and palaces.

* Folio 22 recto: Horse ( Equus ) ( Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, Book XII, i, 41-56 ; Hugh of Fouilloy, III, xxiii )

Both terms, vasco and basque, are inherited from Latin ethnonym Vascones which in turn goes back to the Greek term οὐασκώνους ( ouaskōnous ), an ethnonym used by Strabo in his Geographica ( 23 CE, Book III ).

A Collect for 5th November, in Book of Common Prayer published London 1689, referring to the Gunpowder Plot and the arrival of William III of England | William III

Proper Terms: An attempt at a rational explanation of the meanings of the Collection of Phrases in " The Book of St Albans ", 1486, entitled " The Compaynys of beestys and fowlys " and similar lists., Transactions of the Philological Society 1907-1910 Part III, pp 1 – 187, Kegan, Paul, Trench & Trübner & Co, Ltd, London, 1909.

His comparative approach is obvious in the following excerpt from Chapter III of Book I of what many consider to be his masterpiece, De l ' esprit des lois:

Ecclesiastical History of England: Book I, Book II, Book III, Book IV, Book V

" ( Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Book III, chapter XXXV, Loeb Classical Library )

In Book III of The Divine Institutes Lactantius ridicules the notion that there could be inhabitants of the antipodes " whose footsteps are higher than their heads ".

In Book III Irenaeus purports to show that these doctrines are false, by providing counter-evidence gleaned from the Gospels.

Rousseau was opposed to the idea that the people should exercise sovereignty via a representative assembly ( Book III, Chapter XV ).

By the early 200s, Origen may have been using the same twenty-seven books as in the Catholic New Testament canon, though there were still disputes over the canonicity of the Letter to the Hebrews, Epistle of James, II Peter, II John and III John and the Book of Revelation, known as the Antilegomena.

no prince is ever benefited by making himself hated .” Book III, Chapter XIX

The Olney Hymns are subdivided into three books: Book I, On Select Texts of Scripture ; Book II, On occasional Subjects ; and, Book III, On the Progress and Changes of the Spiritual Life.

Book III is written to express Newton's ideas of the stages of personal spiritual awakening and salvation.

The Exeter Book contains a series of poems entitled Christ, sectioned into Christ I, Christ II and Christ III.

The central poem of Book III is a summary of Proclus ' Commentary on the Timaeus, and Book V contains the important principle of Proclus that things are known not according to their own nature, but according to the character of the knowing subject.