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Book SynopsisThe Epic of Ram, Volume 5 relates the story’s three middle episodes—Ram’s battles with demons, the kidnapping of his wife, and his alliance with a race of marvelous monkeys—and climaxes in Hanuman’s journey to the island of Lanka to find Sita. This edition features the Avadhi text in the Devanagari script alongside the English translation.
Trade Review[A] cause for celebration—one of India’s most influential texts has been translated into contemporary English by a pivotal scholar who has devoted much of his career to the text, and its afterlives…Gives us a firm starting point for charting horizons and pathways into still-living traditions. -- Nikhil Govind * Scroll.in *
Lutgendorf manages a simplicity, elegance and dignity, whereas attempts to rhyme or alliterate by other translators have often resulted in bathos…If this graceful and eminently readable translation can win more readers for this great scripture, which is also the greatest poem ever written in Hindi, it would have served to reaffirm Tulsi’s belief in the countless multiplicity of Ramayans. -- Harish Trivedi * IIC Quarterly *
