According to Indian tradition, and according to the Ramayana itself, the Ramayana belongs to the genre of itihāsa, like the Mahabharata.

According to Hindu tradition, the Ramayana takes place during a period of time known as Treta Yuga.

According to the Ramayana, the elephant's mother was Iravati.

According to the Adhyatma Ramayana It is also said that Vamana is the guard of the gate of Bali's underworld realm Sutala and will remain so forever.

According to Jain Ramayana, Sita was the daughter of Ravana.

According to the Ramayana, Rakshasas were created from Brahma's foot ; other sources claim they are descended from Pulastya, or from Khasa, or from Nirṛti and Nirrita.

According to Hindu legend, the divine king Rama of the Ramayana epic reigned in Ayodhya, the capital of Kosala.

According to both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, the Yaksha king Vaisravana alias Kubera was the ruler of Lanka.

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

According to the Ramayana, Surabhi is the daughter of sage Kashyapa and his wife Krodhavasa, the daughter of Daksha.

According to the Ramayana, the Vanaras lived primarily in the region of Kishkindha in present-day Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh & Maharashtra, in the midst of Dandaka Forest, where Lord Rama met them during his search for Sita.

According to Hindu legends and Ramayana Rama, along with his wife Sita and brother Lakshmana, stayed in Panchavati during their Vanvasa period.

According to Rajasthan district Gazetteers of Jodhpur and the Hindu epic Ramayana ( composed up to 4th century AD ), Abhiras were the original inhabitants of Jodhpur and later Aryans spread to this region.

According to the Ramayana, Ekashringa was the chief priest when the king Dasaratha performed a yagya to beget progeny, and as the consequence of the said yagya were born Rama, Bharata, and the twins Lakshmana and Shatrughna.

According to Ramayana, when Lord Rama came to Gaya along with Sita for pitripaksha ( or to perform pindadanam ), Sita cursed the Falgu River following some disobedience on the part of the river.

According to local legend, it sprang forth when the Hindu god Ram, the exiled hero of the epic Ramayana, stopped at the spot five thousand years ago in search of his kidnapped wife Sita.

According to the epic Ramayana and Mahabharata, the Janakas were a race of kings who ruled Videha Kingdom from their capital Mithila.

According to some Ramayana adaptations, Mandodari is also the mother of Rama's wife Sita, who is infamously kidnapped by Ravana.

According to some Ramayana adaptations, Ravana was abducting his own daughter from a union with Mandodari.

According to the Ananda Ramayana, king Padmaksha had a daughter named Padma-an incarnate of the goddess Lakshmi.

According to another tradition found in the Ramayana ( VII. 62. 6 ) and the Vishnu Purana ( IV. 4. 46 ), the Shurasenas were descendants of Shurasena, son of Shatrughna, brother of Rama.

According to the Ramayana, she was an ardently devoted woman who received Rama's darshan and blessing due to her Bhakti to Him.

According to the legend in Ramayana, while hunting in the forest of Ayodhya, King Dashratha heard a sound near a lake and unleashed an arrow, hoping to hit an animal.

According to Katherine Litz, `` the becoming, the process of realization, is the dance ''.

According to the official interpretation of the Charter, a member cannot be penalized by not having the right to vote in the General Assembly for nonpayment of financial obligations to the `` special '' United Nations' budgets, and of course cannot be expelled from the Organization ( which you suggested in your editorial ), due to the fact that there is no provision in the Charter for expulsion.

According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.

According to Philippoff, the recoverable shear S is given by Af where **yc is the angle of extinction.

According to Whipple ( 1955 ), cometary debris is sufficient to replenish the material spiraling into the sun, maintaining a fairly steady state.

According to the theory proposed, this is a consequence of the severe condition of perceived threat that persists unabated for the anxious child in an ambiguous sort of school environment.

According to the theory underlying odd-lot indices, the trader who trades odd lots is most likely a small trader, one who can't afford to trade round lots.

According to Dr. Ellis, the average 20-year-old American woman is capable of far greater sexual arousal than her partner.

According to a newspaper report of the 1961 statistics of the Church of England, the `` total of confirmed members is 9,748,000, but only 2,887,671 are registered on the parochial church rolls '', and `` over 27 million people in England are baptized into the Church of England, but roughly only a tenth of them continue ''.

According to the fossil record, Lissamphibia, which includes all modern amphibians and is the only surviving lineage, may have branched off from the extinct groups Temnospondyli and Lepospondyli at some period between the Late Carboniferous and the Early Triassic.

According to Cauchy's functional equation theorem, the logarithm is the only continuous transformation that transforms real multiplication to addition.

According to the definition by IUPAC, the former two are alkanes, whereas the third group is called cycloalkanes.

According to adventurer André Malraux, in his La Condition Humaine ( 1933 ), " If a man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity ?".

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, an Allocution is a solemn form of address or speech from the throne employed by the Pope on certain occasions.

According to Richard Dawkins, a distinction between agnosticism and atheism is unwieldy and depends on how close to zero we are willing to rate the probability of existence for any given god-like entity.

According to Tillich, the last of these three types of existential anxiety, i. e. spiritual anxiety, is predominant in modern times while the others were predominant in earlier periods.

According to Viktor Frankl, the author of Man's Search for Meaning, when a person is faced with extreme mortal dangers, the most basic of all human wishes is to find a meaning of life to combat the " trauma of nonbeing " as death is near.

According to one analyst, Armenia's economic system is anticompetitive due to the structure of the economy being a type of " monopoly or oligopoly ".

According to the estimate of a former prime minister, Hrant Bagratian, 55 percent of Armenia's GDP is controlled by 44 families.

According to the Central Bank of Armenia, in 2005, cash remittances from Armenians working abroad reached a record-high level of $ 1 billion, which is worth more than one fifth of the country ’ s 2005 Gross Domestic Product.

According to the ROA National Statistical Service, the average monthly salary during January-June 2008 is 86, 850 drams ( about $ 287 at the time ).