Srimad Valmiki Ramayana Set of 2 Vols.

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Srimad Valmiki Ramayana Set of 2 Vols. The Valmiki-Ramayana is read all over India with great reverence and love as it contains the most authentic story of Lord Sri Rama, one of the two most popular incarnations, viz., Śri Rama and Śri Krsna, who lived amongst us thousands of years ago and have left an indelible impression on our lives. It is as fresh today as it was during the time of Valmiki, a contemporary of Sri Rama. It is one of the world’s most remarkable classics and excels all in its moral appeal it is full of lessons for all and deserves to be read with interest and benefit by all lovers of sublime literature. It is noted for its poetic excellences and is the oldest specimen of epic poetry. An authentic and readable translation of this world-renowned book was published in Hindi, the national language of India, some years ago after critically editing the text with the help of different recensions, and is very widely read all over the Hindi-speaking States and adjacent areas in India as also abroad.

For the benefit of those who cannot read Hindi and at the same time who are not so well-versed in Sanskrit as to understand and appreciate original Sanskrit text, an accurate and faithful English translation of this sacred text by scholarly translators has been got done by the Gita Press Some years ago, we had published the entire narrative of Valmiki- Ramayana in English in serials under the caption of Valmiki-Ramayana in three Annual Numbers of our English monthly journal ‘Kalyana-Kalpataru’. After that, as an independent work, we published the Valmiki-Ramayana in three volumes-Part one containing Balakända and Ayodhyakanda, Part two containing Aranyakanda, Kişkindhäkända and Sundarakanda; Part three containing Yuddhakanda and Uttarakanda. But since we received a number of suggestions from our readers to reduce the number of volumes as much as possible, we are publishing it in two volumes-Volurne one containing Bälakända to Kişkindhäkända and volume two, Sundarakända to Uttarakanda. In doing so, convenience of the readers was the main consideration and at the same time the book has been saved from being unmanagably bulky.

Although great care has been taken in translating and printing these books, typographical and other errors may have crept in and we crave the indulgence of our kind readers to bear with us. In our translation we have tried to reproduce the meaning of the original as accurately as possible so as to enable the readers to follow the text word by word, and have made it as close as possible, preserving even the grammatical peculiarities of the original and translating even indeclinables like च, खलु, वै, हि, ह. नु and so on, which cannot be called redundant in the work of a Rsi. We leave it to our learned readers, who are conversant with both the languages, to judge how far we have succeeded in the work we have undertaken. In the end, we dedicate our humble effort to the Almighty Lord Sri Rama, who has sustained us throughout in His abundant grace and enabled us to bring out these volumes.