Ramayana Book Two: Ayodhya (Clay Sanskrit Library) (Bk. 2)

Ramayana Book Two: Ayodhya (Clay Sanskrit Library) (Bk. 2)
by Valmiki Valmiki

Ramayana Book Two: Ayodhya (Clay Sanskrit Library) (Bk. 2)
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Author: Valmiki Valmiki
Translator: Sheldon I. Pollock
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); Sanskrit (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-02-01
ISBN: 0814767168
Number of pages: 654
Publisher: NYU Press

Summary of Ramayana Book Two: Ayodhya (Clay Sanskrit Library) (Bk. 2)

The king decides to abdicate in favor of Rama; but just as the celebrations reach their climax, a court intrigue forces Rama and Sita into fourteen years banishment; they dutifully accept their fate, and go off to the jungle. The other brothers refuse to benefit from his misfortune, which leaves nobody to run the city; eventually one of them is persuaded to act as regent, but only consents to do so on condition that he lives outside the city and acts in Rama?s name.

?Ayódhya? is Book Two of Valmíki?s national Indian epic, The Ramáyana. The young hero Rama sets out willingly from the capital with wife and brother for a fourteen-year banishment, which will entail great suffering and further difficult choices in the books ahead. Of the seven books of this great Sanskrit epic, "Ayódhya" is the most human, and it remains one of the best introductions to the social and political values of traditional India.

Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation

For more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http://www.claysanskritlibrary.org

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