TY - BOOK AU - Valmiki AU - Ramesh Menon TI - The Ramayana: A Modern Translation T2 - Volume 1 and Volume 2 SN - 9789351775188 U1 - 294.592204521 V245 R PY - 2016/// CY - Noida PB - HarperCollins Publishers India KW - Ramayana Valmiki KW - Rama Hindu deity N1 - Volume One of this great epic follows Rama's life through his growing-up years and his exile in the forest to Sita's abduction and Hanuman's leap of faith. Modern scholars claim that the Ramayana was first composed around 300 BC. The epic is called the Adi Kavya, the world's first poem. Ramesh Menon's The Ramayana is a novelist's lush, imaginative rendering, rather than a scholar's translation. Volume Two tells the story of the Great War, and of how Ravana was vanquished by the great Rama with imagination, power and beauty. Modern scholars claim that the Ramayana was first composed around 300 BC. The epic is called the Adi Kavya, the world's first poem. Ramesh Menon's The Ramayana is a novelist's lush, imaginative rendering, rather than a scholar's translation ER -