RAMAYANA. A FINE ILLUMINATED INDIAN MANUSCRIPT WRITTEN IN SANSKRIT. WITH A NUMBER OF VERY BEAUTIFULLY EXECUTED MINIATURE PAINTINGS.

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A large 18th century Sanskrit manuscript of the famous Indian epic, The Ramayana. Written in a neat Devanagari script in black ink, with headings, keywords, and markings in red on pale beige paper. The text is ruled in several lines of black, orange, and blue. The manuscript contains seven large illuminated miniature paintings. 7.75 x 13.25 inches, written surface: 4.25 x 8.5 inches., bound to style in full maroon calf, with five raised bands on the spine, the covers and spine are gilt decorated 420 leaves. A fine, beautiful and excellent manuscript with wonderful miniature paintings, a few leaves are repaired with very minor loss of text and a few leaves are marginally affected by damp, otherwise excellent. A VERY FINE ILLUMINATED SANSKRIT MANUSCRIPT OF THE RAMAYANA, ONE OF THE GREATEST OF ALL CLASSICAL INDIAN TEXTS. WITH SEVEN SUPERB MINIATURE PAINTINGS. The manuscript is most likely an eighteenth century Kashmiri manuscript. The R m ya a (Devan gar ) is an ancient Sanskrit epic thought to have been compiled between approximately 400 BCE and 200 CE. It is attributed to the Hindu sage (maharishi) Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon (sm ti). It was the original story on which other versions (such as the Khmer Reamker, the Thai Ramakien, the Lao Phra Lak Phra Lam the Malay Hikayat Seri Rama and the Maranao Darengan) were based. It depicts the duties of relationships, portraying ideal characters like the ideal servant, the ideal brother, the ideal wife and the ideal king. The name R m ya a is a tatpurusha compound of R ma and ayana "going, advancing", translating to "R ma's Journey".[1] The R m ya a consists of 24,000 verses[2] in seven books, and 500 cantos (k as),[3] and tells the story of Lord R ma, whose wife Sita is abducted by the demon (R kshasa) king of Lanka, R vana. Thematically, the epic explores themes of human existence and the concept of dharma.[4] Verses in R m yana are written in a 32-syllable meter called anustubh. The epic was an important influence on later Sanskrit poetry and Indian life and culture, primarily through its establishment of the loka meter. Like its epic cousin the Mah bh rata, however, the R m yana is not just an ordinary story: it contains the teachings of ancient Hindu sages and presents them through allegory in narrative and the interspersion of the philosophical and the devotional. The characters of Rama, Sita, Lakshmana, Bharata, Hanum n and R vana (the villain of the piece) are all fundamental to the cultural consciousness of India. One of the most important literary works on ancient India, the Ramayana has had a profound impact on art and culture in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. The story ushered in the tradition of the next thousand years of massive-scale works in the rich diction of regal courts and Brahminical temples.[5] It has also inspired great quantities of latter-day literature in various languages, notable among which are the works of the Tamil poet Kambar of the 13th century, Molla ramayanam in Telugu and the 14th century Kannada poet Narahari Kavi's Torave Ramayan, fifteenth century Bengali poet Krittibas Ojha, known as the Krittivasi Ramayan and the sixteenth century Hindi poet Tulsidas. The Ramayana became popular in Southeast Asia during the 8th century and was represented in literature, temple architecture, dance and theatre. N° de ref. de la librería 22108

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