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.

Similarly, when the Ramlila tradition of reenacting the Ramayana is referred to as an institution, the term Sri Ramlila is frequently used.

Early compositions matured in the fourteenth century, during the reign of the Kamata king Durlabhnarayana of the Khen dynasty, when Madhav Kandali composed the Saptakanda Ramayana.

From a historical perspective, image worship ( Murti-PujA ) is an ancient tradition as a small part within the overall Hindu tradition, with the oldest extant images of the classical Pauranik deities allegedly dating to Ramayana when Rama worshipped Lord Shiva at Rameswaram.

The film is loosely based on the Hindu epic Ramayana ; its narrative occurs over 14 days when a revolutionist named Beera, who lives in a forest, kidnaps a policeman's wife to avenge his sister's death.

As a boy, Nānu would listen to his father with keen interest when he narrated stories from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata to the simple folks of his village.

In some versions of the Ramayana, when Rama leaves Ayodhya for his 14-year exile, a crowd of his subjects follow him into the forest because of their devotion to him.

It was here that she gave birth to the twins Lava ( Ramayana ) and Kusha ( Ramayana ), and disappeared back into the earth ( from where she was born ) when confronted by a repentant Rama.

The earliest known frame stories can be traced back to ancient India sometime in the first millennium BCE, when the Sanskrit epics Mahabharata and Ramayana, Vishnu Sarma's Panchatantra, Syntipas ' The Seven Wise Masters, and the fable collections Hitopadesha and Vikram and The Vampire were written.

In Valmiki's Ramayana it is said that Viswamitra had his hermitage in Siddhashrama, the erstwhile hermitage of Vishnu, when he appeared as the Vamana avatar.

In the traditional telling of the history of Valmiki, the composer of the Hindu epic Ramayana, he composed his first verse when he saw a hunter kill the male of a pair of Demoiselle Cranes that were making love.

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.

Jain adaptations of the Ramayana like Vasudevahindi, Uttara-purana, and others also state that Sita is the daughter of Ravana and Mandodari, and is abandoned when she is prophesied to be the cause of the end of Ravana and his family.

The Ramayana teaches that Kumbhakarna adhered to the Dharma of loyalty to his kin when his advice fails, while Vibhishana chose to oppose his kin when his advice failed.

This herb is mentioned in the Ramayana when, Ravana's son Indrajit hurls a powerful weapon at Lakshmana.

Continuing his Master's emphasis on the unity of all religion, Sant Thakar Singh frequently referred to the Holy Bible when addressing Westerners, the Adi Granth, Ramayana and other Indian scriptures in India, and the Qur ' an when addressing Muslim people.

Some say that the name Sengiri originated from ' Sanjeevi ' the hill mentioned in Ramayana from where Hanuman got the life saving herb, the Sanjeevini Booti for Lakshmana when he was lying unconscious during the war between Rama and Ravana.

Ancient history of the district is related with the Ramayana times when the Lord of Kosala, Ram, appointed his elder son Kusha the king of Kushwati, which is present-day Kushinagar.

Vishrava, Kubera's father, also married the Rakshasa ( demon ) princess Kaikesi, who mothered four Rakshasa children: Ravana, the chief antagonist of the Ramayana, Kumbhakarna, Vibhishana and Soorpanaka.

The Rigveda also mentions an eclipse causing demon, Svarbhānu, however the specific term of " graha " becomes applied to Svarbhānu in the later Mahabharata and Ramayana ..

The Ramayana tells the story of a prince, Rama of Ayodhya, whose wife Sita is abducted by the demon ( Rākshasa ) king of Lanka, Rāvana.

Sophia is also sometimes seen to represent the Image of God present in the human soul, which is saved from its fallen state by Christ the Logos — in which case there would be a strong similarity between Sophia and Sita in the Ramayana, who is saved by Hanuman ( an incarnation of Shiva ) from the demon king Ravana to be reunited with her husband Rama, representing God.

" soft-bellied "; Tamil: Montotari ; Indonesian, Javanese and Sundanese: Banondari ; Khmer: Mandogiri ; Malay: Mandudaki ; Thai: Montho Thewi ) is the Queen Consort of Ravana, the demon king of Lanka, according to the Hindu epic Ramayana.

In Hinduism the God Hanuman is benign and in the Ramayana he and his monkey people are pivotal for Rama to reach Sri Lanka and slay Ravana, probably Howard decided to depict him as a demon after having read Rudyard Kipling's The Mark of the Beast, a short story where a drunken British officer in India is struck by a curse after having defaced a Hanuman statue with his cigar.

It depicts the duties of relationships, portraying ideal characters like the ideal father, ideal servant, the ideal brother, the ideal wife and the ideal king. The name Ramayana is a tatpurusha compound of and (" going, advancing "), translating to " Rama's Journey ".

The Ramayana consists of 24, 000 verses in seven books () and 500 cantos (), and tells the story of Rama ( an avatar of the Hindu preserver-God Vishnu ), whose wife Sita is abducted by the king of Sri Lanka, Ravana.

:* Tara ( Ramayana ), the wife of the monkey king Vali, who married Vali's brother and successor, Sugriva, after Vali's death

, is the primary antagonist character of the Hindu epic Ramayana ; who was the Rakshasa king of Lanka.

# Rama, the king of Ayodhya and the hero of the Hindu epic Ramayana

Human ambition to fly is illustrated in mythological literature of several cultures ; the wings made out of wax and feathers by Daedalus in Greek mythology, or the Pushpaka Vimana of king Ravana in Ramayana, for instance.

A fully distinguished literary form ( poetry ) appeared in the fourteenth century in the courts of the Kamata kingdom ; in the same century, Madhav Kandali translated the Ramayana into the Assamese ( Saptakanda Ramayana ) in the eastern court of a Kachari king.

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

Lanka ( Sanskrit: ल ं क ा Sri lankā meaning " respected island ", Sinhala: ල ං ක ා ප ු ර ( Langkapura ), Malay: Langkapuri, Tamil: Ilankai, Javanese and Indonesian: Alengka or Ngalengka ) is the name given in Hindu mythology to the island fortress capital of the legendary king Ravana in the great Hindu epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.

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

Many of the references to Lanka in the Mahabharata are found in sage Markandeya's narration of the story of Rama and Sita to king Yudhishthira, which narration amounts to a truncated version of the Ramayana.

Dasharatha ( Sanskrit: दशरथ, IAST Daśaratha, Tibetan: ཤ ི ང ་ ར ྟ་ བཅ ུ་ པ, Khmer: Dasarath, Malay: Dasarata, Burmese: Dasagiri, Yuan: Dattaratthah, Tamil: Dhasarathan, Thai: Thotsorot, Lao: Thotarot, Chinese: 十车王 ) was, according to Ramayana, the king of Ayodhya and a descendant of the Ikshvaku dynasty ( also known as Suryavamsha or Raghuvaṃśa ).

The Ramayana presents a similar account about Kamadhenu, however, here the sage is Vasistha and the king is Vishwamitra.

The Indian epic poem Ramayana, written thousands of years ago in Sanskrit and an important Hindu text, recounts how Rama, with the help of an army of vanaras, built a bridge of stones across the sea to Lanka to rescue his wife Sita from the Asura king Ravana.

Indrajit ( Indrajit, Burmese: Indazita, Lao: Inthachi, Yuan: Indhajik, Tamil: Intiracittu, Thai: Inthorochit, Malay: Inderajati ) or Meghanaad meaning Thunderous (), a warrior mentioned in the Indian epic Ramayana, was the son of the Lankan king Ravana.

It also contains the cave home of Sugriva, the monkey king of the Ramayana.

But the most well-known poet of the Pre-Vaishnavite sub period is Madhav Kandali, who rendered Valmiki's Ramayana into Assamese verse ( Kotha Ramayana, 11th century ) under the patronage of Mahamanikya, a Kachari king of Jayantapura.

and refers to them as the military allies of sage Vishistha against Vedic king Vishwamitra The Kishkindha Kanda of Ramayana locates the Sakas, Kambojas, Yavanas and Paradas in the extreme north-west beyond the Himavat ( i. e. Hindukush ).

* Vali ( Ramayana ) ( also spelled Bali ), a Vanara king from the epic Ramayana