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The Rāmāyana, Volume 1. Bālakāndam and Ayodhyākāndam

Chapter 1: Transcriber's Note This book was transcribed from scans of several different copies of the original found at the Internet Archive. The typesetters of the original book represented the letter ā (with a macron above) as â (with circumflex above) when italicized, but this etext uses the macron throughout. Words in italics in this etext were italicized in the original book. I have corrected obvious misspellings (for example in one place the word "spices" was used when "spies" was clearly meant) but I've left variant spellings alone.
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An epic narrative traces the early life and trials of a noble prince born into a distinguished royal line, his training and marriage to a bride celebrated for her purity, and the court events that compel him into a prolonged forest exile. His devoted brother voluntarily shares hardship while another kin refuses regal power to honor familial bonds. The episodes mix mythic encounters with sages, vows, and moral tests to explore duty, loyalty, chastity, and ideal kingship, presenting models of fraternal devotion and ethical conduct that set the moral framework for the larger epic.

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Title: The Rāmāyana, Volume 1. Bālakāndam and Ayodhyākāndam

Creator: Valmiki

Translator: Manmatha Nath Dutt

Release date: June 3, 2018 [eBook #57265]

Language: English

Credits: Produced by James Simmons

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Transcriber's Note

This book was transcribed from scans of several different copies of the original found at the Internet Archive. The typesetters of the original book represented the letter ā (with a macron above) as â (with circumflex above) when italicized, but this etext uses the macron throughout. Words in italics in this etext were italicized in the original book. I have corrected obvious misspellings (for example in one place the word "spices" was used when "spies" was clearly meant) but I've left variant spellings alone.

THE RĀMĀYANA

Translated into English Prose from the original Sanskrit of Valmiki

BĀLAKĀNDAM.

EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY

MANMATHA NATH DUTT, M. A.

Rector, Keshub Academy.

printed by Girish Chandra Chackravarti, Deva Press, 65/2, Beadon Street. CALCUTTA. 1891

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