He penned popular lyrics for many block-buster films based on the Ramayana.
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It was a bold attempt at cracking the Valmiki-Ramayana code and in the process de-mystified the story of Rama to the middle-class -Literate- modern day- telugu reader.
The terracota works depict stories from the great Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata, as well as from lilas of Krishna.
Another revival of interest occurred in 2008 with the use of Hanshaw's music throughout the full-length indie animated feature Sita Sings the Blues, which retells the Indian epic poem the Ramayana from Sita's perspective by setting scenes from it to performances by Hanshaw.
"Women in Valmiki Ramayana" (22 articles) in English and translated them into Telugu.
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He also rendered Sribashyam's Telugu lectures on `Valmiki Ramayana' in English.
Vedars also participate in Tamil folk dramas called Kuttus that depict scenes from Hindu epics such as Mahabharatha and Ramayana.
However, some sources say the name of the city derives from "Loh" or "Lava", the son of Rama in the ancient Hindu scripture Ramayana.
His stage work brought him Best Actor awards for his performance in The People Next Door and he has also starred in Ramayana, Telling Tales, Four and Bluebird, Workers Writes, Vurt, Sandman, and Mercury Fur.
The Hindu scriptures Bhagavata Purana and Vishnu Purana, and the Hindu epics Ramayana and Mahabharata refer to Samudra manthan, which is directly related to the origin of Gosaikunda.
The first three titles that were made available in India were: Devi, Snake Woman and The Sadhu followed by Ramayan 3392 AD, a futuristic sci-fi story inspired by the original Ramayana mythology.
A book he wrote in 1902 consisted of translations from ancient books, including the Sutta-pitaka, Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
In addition, there is the legend that the Pakistani city of Lahore was first founded by Lava, while Kasur was founded by his twin Kusha, both of whom were the sons of Rama of the Ramayana.
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The Gandhara kingdom of the northwest, and the legendary Gandhara peoples, are also a major part of Hindu literature such as the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
It has been argued that an ancient city named Pushkalwati, founded by Bharata's son Pushkal, from the Indian epic Ramayana, may have existed in this general area during early Indo-Iranian times before their invasion past the Indus into South Asia.
These are the "heroic" societies familiar to us from epics like the Iliad and the Ramayana.
The regency is famous for its classic Balinese paintings which mostly depict the story of the epics like Mahabharata or Ramayana.
According to the Ramayana, an Asura named Madhu, ruled this forest and its territory.
The topeng theater, which involves masked performances of classical stories such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata, is the Madurese performance art best known outside the island, due to its role as a representative Madurese art form at exhibitions of regional cultures from all over Indonesia.
This enduring and entertaining bunch live in luxury because worshipers believe they personify Hanuman, the cherished 'Monkey God' who banished evil in the Indian epic Ramayana.
There is reference to the city of Gaya and the Phalgu in the Ramayana in which it says that Sita had cursed the Phalgu River.
The fort palace appears very vibrant and colourful when beatified during the one month long Ram Lila festival where different episodes of Ramayana are enacted.
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On this occasion, a colourful pageant or procession of Ramayana epic is presented as part of the Dussehra celebrations that is held in October under the patronage of the Maharaja.
The parts of great Hindu epics of Mahabharata and Ramayana are told in different styles in an open ground.
In 1970 he published the novel "Ramayana in the dramas", followed by a collection of poems "A decade of dreams".
Ramayana | Rama and Lakshmana seated on Kabandha's arms, about to sever them. Kabandha is depicted with a big mouth on his stomach and no head or neck; though depicted with two eyes, the ''Ramayana'' describes him as one-eyed. (Painting on ceiling of temple in Ayodhyapattinam near Salem, Tamil Nadu | Kusha (Ramayana) | Kakawin Ramayana |
He is mentioned in the oldest and most original existing versions of the Ramayana (those by Sage Valmiki), as having his abode in the form of a hermitage in the Malaya Mountains, at more than one place.
It so happened that a quiz contest aired on Doordarshan in February 1967, in which participants could easily answer questions pertaining to Greek mythology, but were unable to reply to the question "In the Ramayana, who was Rama's mother?".
During the later stage of Vedic era, when Purana, Vedanta and Itihas (Epics Ramayana and Maha Bharath) literatures emerged the importance of the basic nature elements Agni, Varuna, Vayu and Indra in the literature decreased.
Hindu epic of Ramayana and Mahabharata have their own separate episodes that often formed a separate story with Indonesian twists and interpretations that often differ from Indian version.The Buddhist Jataka tales also has made its way into Indonesian fable animal folklores.
Nevertheless, the Ramayana came to Southeast Asia by means of Tamil
Her directorial efforts include Saasar Maher and Ashi Asavi Saasu. She also acted in Ramanand Sagar's TV Series Ramayana as Kaushalya (mother of Rama) along with her husband Bal Dhuri, who was Dasharath (father of Rama).
Laxman pronounced as Lakshman, brother of Rama in the Indian epic Ramayana
The kingdom appears in the Ramayana; according to it and other ancient texts, it is the birthplace of Sita.
In the Mahabharata and Ramayana it was known as Kantara or Mahakantara which later on finds mention in the historical record of Allahabad pillaring scription of Samudragupta.
In the Pre-Chaitanya Era (15th century), the early Vaishnava Poetry or the Vaishnava Padavali by Chandidas and Vidyapati was composed; the first translation of Ramayana and Bhagavata in Bengali were made and with Manasa Mangal and Chandi Mangal flourished the tradition of Mangalkavya.
The Jain poet Devachandra (1770–1841), a native of Kankagiri, was in the court of Krishnaraja III and authored three noted works: Pujyapada Charite, a poem on the life of the Jain saint Pujyapada in sangatya metre; Ramakathavatara, the poet's Jain version of the Hindu epic Ramayana in champu metre; and Rajavalikathe (1838), a biographical account of the Mysore royal family, some earlier poets, and stories of religious importance.
It is customary to visit the four temples in the order Rama, Bharata, Lakshmana and Shatrughna respectively.
Sangraha Ramayana was printed in 1890 AD, has now been reprinted (in Nov. 2008) with Kannada translation by Dr. Vyasanakere Prabhanjanacharya.
In 2008, she choreographed and acted in a musical based on the epic Ramayana with 64 actors and dancers at Avery Fisher Hall, New York, directed by her husband, Jagdish L. Sidana.
Poet Krittibas Ojha (5th century poet), who translated the great Indian epic Ramayana in Bengali used to live here.
Yet another suggestion is associated to Hindu epic, Ramayana, that the name originated from the pursuit of Khara for Rama and Lakshmana.
Pushpaka Vimana, a flying chariot mentioned in the Hindu epic Ramayana
According to several mythological epics like Mahabharata, Ramayana etc Rajan name is given as the honor to the Kings like Rama, Dasharatha etc.
The tales of the Ramakien are similar to those of the Ramayana, though transferred to the topography and culture of Ayutthaya, where the Avatar of Pra Narai (the Thai incarnation of Vishnu, who's also known as Narayan) is reborn as Pra Ram.
Saket was the name of the famous epic Hindi poetic work of Maithili Sharan Gupt, an account of the Ramayana through the eyes of Urmila, a lesser known character.
Sampoorna Ramayana (English trans.: Complete Ramayana) is a 1961 Indian mythological film, directed by Babubhai Mistry, based on epic Ramayana by Valmiki, starring Mahipal and Anita Guha as Rama and Sita respectively.
In the Ramayana when Laxman fainted, hit by Indrajit's arrow, Lord Hanuman brought Sanjeeevi hill from Dronagiri in Himalayas for saving life of Laxman.
The most significant innovator was the talented courtier Myawaddy Mingyi U Sa (1766–1853), who adapted repertoires of Siamese music into Burmese, rewrote the Siamese Ramayana, called Ramakien, into the Burmese Enaung-zat, composed harp music for it, and developed a whole new genre of harp music called "Yodaya" (the Burmese word for Ayutthaya).
The Pushtimarg Vaishnavite tradition of Gujarat points out that the Ramayana refers to other Shudras, such as Shabari, who lived in the forest.
In the Hindu epic Ramayana, Shrutakirti/Shrutkeerti (IAST Śrutakīrti) was the daughter of Kushadbhojan, a brother of King Janaka of Mithilā; hence, she is a cousin of Sītā.
In Valmiki's Ramayana it is said that Viswamitra has his hermitage in Siddhashrama and it was the erstwhile hermitage of Vishnu, when he appeared as the Vamana Avatar.
In the 1980s, she wrote the book Ramayana Vishavruksha Khandana as a rebuttal to Muppala Ranganayakamma's Ramayana Visha Vruksham, itself a response to Srimad Ramayana Kalpavruksham by Viswanatha Satyanarayana.
The Ramayana and Mahabharata (both being Hindu mythological stories based on religious scriptures of the same names) were the first major television series produced.
Contemporary prose versions of the epic Ramayana include Sri Ramayana Darshanam by Dr. K. V. Puttappa in Kannada and Ramayana Kalpavrikshamu by Viswanatha Satyanarayana in Telugu, both of which have been awarded the Jnanpith Award.
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In the late 1990s, Sanjay Khan made a series called Jai Hanuman, recounting tales from the life of Hanuman and related characters from the Ramayana.
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In addition, Ramesh Menon wrote a single-volume edition of the Ramayana, which has received praise from scholars.
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US animation artist Nina Paley retold the Ramayana from Sita's point of view (with a secondary story about Paley's own marriage) in the animated musical Sita Sings the Blues.
Toured the country with India’s first reality show all girls pop band VIVA for their debut album ‘Hum Naye Geet Sunaye’, performed ballet in Sahara TV’s epic show Ramayana, and to top it all performed at the World Aids Day in the presence of Hollywood great Richard Gere.