Ramayana By various Poets

Ramayana By various Poets

Kamban the Tamil poet of the 10-12th centuary wrote a long poem Rama Katha almost faithfully following Valmiki Ramayana.He presented the Tamil Ramayana Kaviyam as one originating in Tamil Nadu and thus with tamil echos.Kamba Ramayana became a quite popular work and the later writers refer to it often in their writings.But it remain a popular work till 18th centuary, when Arunachala Kavirayarof Sirkazhi, Tamil Nadu fascinated by this work, decided to take it to the common man, simplifying the language, using local idiom, and setting songs to music.

He created Rama Natakam. This become very popular in villages. Even to this day Carnatic concerts, includes songs of Arunachala Kavirayar. Tulasidoss wrote Ramacharit Manas in the 15th centuary. Another work of Adbutha Ramayana of 4000 verses, was written by Saint Ramananda in the 14th centuary. In this work, Rama is pictured as supreme Deity who has taken an Avatara to punish the wicket and save the virtuous. There are also several other Ramayanas written by great scholars. They are named as Bhusundi Ramayana, Bhoja Champa Ramayana and Poet Kalidasa's Raghuvamsa. In Telugu, Bhaskara, Thyagaraja, Gopinatha Molla and Adhyatma Ramayana are well known. In Oriya also several author's narrated the Ramayana. Here also we are giving you the Short picture of Ramayana.

Ramayana is one of the Great epic of India. It describes in glorious terms the hero’s deeds and virtue of Kshatriya Princes The Ramayana is the story of Rama a prince of King Dasaratha of Ayodhya. By an unfortunate promise, given to Kaikeye the wife of Dasaratha, Dasaratha is compelled to send Rama to the forest for fourteen years. Rama being a devoted son and respecting the honour of his fathers word accepts the order and proceeds to Dandakaranya [Deep forest] . With his wife Seetha and brother Lakshmana.There he fights the demons who are destroying the sacrifice and penance of the sages. Ravana , the demon king of Lanka, took away Seetha by deceit. Being informed about this Jatayu, the two brothers proceed to the south. On the way they secure the help of Sugriva and Hanuman. Ultimately they have reached Lanka thro’ the bridge constructed by them and succeeds in killing Ravana and getting back Seetha. They fly back to Ayodhya. Rama ascends the throne which is kept vacant by Bharata –another faithful step brother of Rama. After some time Rama has to abandon Seetha just to please a section of his people. This incident of banishing the devoted and faithful wife against his own will is described in a touching manner in Ramayana. Seetha however for virtue of her purity and extraordinary ability of her two sons Lava and Kucha, wins back her husband’s confidence.

The Ramayana is the story of the triumph of the good over the evil. A Picture of the society of those times was clearly told in Ramayana. The King was the central figure, morals, religion, welfare and everything else depended upon his character and behaviour. Swati Tirunal of Trivancore summarized the Ramayana in a series of verses starting with “Bhavayaami Raghuramam". These verses were popularised by the great carnatic singer Bharatha Rathna Smt. M.S. Subbalakshmi.

Bharatha Rathna Smt. M.S. Subbalakshmi.

Jai Shri Ram.