Read more in this blog about the Great Epic Sri Ramayana famously found and celebrated in several countries around the world outside Bharatavarsha (Bharat). Over 300 Ramayana versions are known to exist, especially in South East Asia. Around the 12th and 13th centuries, this region received and imbibed many of the cultural traits, along with goods and services, travelling from the shores of the great Bharatam. Please scroll down for much more interesting information in this blog! Radhe krishna!!

Ramayana - from across the ASEAN

 Buddhist Version                    Dasaratha Jataka

Jain Version                            Paumachariyam

Thai Version                           Ramakien, in Thai oral culture until King Rama II wrote it

Laos Version                          Phra Lak Phra Ram, national epic by the people of Lao

Malay Version                        Hikayat Seri Rama, Hikayat Maharaja Wana

Burma (Myanmar) Version    Yama Zatdaw

Nepalese Version                    Siddhi Ramayan, Bhanubhaktako Ramayana by Bhanubhakta Acharya  (Nepali: भानुभक्त आचार्य) 1814-1868

Sri Lankan Version                  Janakiharan

Indonesian (Bali) Version        Ramakavaca

Indonesian (Java) Version        Kakawin Ramayaba, Yogesvara Ramayana

Indonesian (Sumatra) Version  Swarnadvipa

Iranian Version                         Dastan-e-Ram O Sita

China and Tibet                        Dunhuang

Japan                                        Ramaensho

Cambodia                                 Reamker

Kingdom of Lan Na                 Phommachak

Phillipines Version                   Mindanao Ramayaba

Maharadia Lawana                   a Maranao epic which tells a local version of the Indian epic Ramayana

Darangen source :                     Filipino Versions of Ramayana

Jai Sri Ram

Vedic divisions of time

Vedic divisions of time

Genealogy of the Ramayana

Complete Genealogy of the Mahabharata

Complete Genealogy of the Mahabharata

Complete genealogy of the lines of Bharata including Suryavansha, Somavansha, Saptarishis, Devas,

Complete genealogy of the lines of Bharata including Suryavansha, Somavansha, Saptarishis, Devas,
Asuras etc. Compiled primarily from the Srimad Bhagavat Mahapuran with other Purans and the Mahabharat as secondary sources - Image from scrolls of aryavart website

Some Facts

  • 24000 Slokas in the Ramayana
  • 1,00,000 Slokas in the Mahabharata
  • 18000 Slokas in the Srimad Bhagavatham
  • Analysis of Ramayana = Rama
  • Analysis of Mahabharata = Govinda

Gandhi and Rajagopalachari

Gandhi and Rajagopalachari

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