Presented accessibly for the general reader without compromising the spirit and lyricism of the originals, William Buck's "Ramayana" and "Mahabharata" capture the essence of the Indian cultural heritage. van Nooten notes, "Apart from William Buck's rendition been able to capture the blend of religion and martial spirit that pervades the original epic". Few works in world literature have inspired so vast an audience, in nations with radically different languages and cultures, as the Ramayana and Mahabharata, two Sanskrit verse epics written some 2,000 years ago. William Buck was a Sanskritist who devoted his life's work to modern retellings of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata as well as the Harivamsa, which remained unfinished at the time of his death in. The addition of the latest parts may be dated by the absence of the Anu. At least three redactions of the text are commonly recognized: Jaya (Victory) with 8,8. It is the story of a dynastic struggle, between the Kurus and Pandavas, for land. Ramayana By William Buck The reader will find pleasure in reading it aloud to himself or the others. Our objective can only be to reconstruct the oldest form of the text which it is possible to reach on the basis of the manuscript material available. The same is true for the "Mahabharata" - in its original Sanskrit, probably the longest Indian epic ever composed. In "Ramayana" (written by a poet known to us as Valmiki), William Buck has retold the story of Prince Rama - with all its nobility of spirit, courtly intrigue, heroic renunciation, fierce battles, and triumph of good over evil - in a length and manner that will make the great Indian epics accessible to the contemporary reader. His books are not widely available in bookstores. William Buck was a mysterious figure who died almost immediately after translating two ancient texts, this book and Mahabharata.
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From Free Shipping Books (Ogden, UT, U.S.A.) AbeBooks Seller Since DecemSeller Rating. Published by University of California Press, 2000. Ramayana - The Story of Lord Rama Few works in world literature have inspired so vast an audience, in nations with radically different languages and cultures, as the Ramayana, written some 2,000 years ago by a poet known to us as Valmiki. Few works in world literature have inspired so vast an audience, in nations with radically different languages and cultures, as the "Ramayana" and "Mahabharata", two Sanskrit verse epics written some 2,000 years ago. William Buck’s Ramayana is a modern translation of one of India’s oldest epic stories.
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