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100			_aValmiki
245			_aThe Ramayana: A Modern Translation
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNoida _bHarperCollins Publishers India _c2016
300			_a467 444
490			_aVolume 1 and Volume 2
500			_aVolume 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.
650			_aRamayana Valmiki
650			_aRama Hindu deity
700			_a Ramesh Menon
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