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    Kakawin Ramayana is believed to have been written in Central Java circa 870 AD during the reign of Mpu Sindok in the Mataram Kingdom. The Javanese Kakawin Ramayana is not based on Valmiki's epic, which was then the most famous version of Rama's story, but based on Ravanavadha or the "Ravana massacre," which is the sixth or seventh century poem ...

  2. Table of Contents. Who wrote Ramayana? Traditionally the credit for writing the great epic Ramayana is given to Maharishi Valmiki. Valmiki is a celebrated poet in Hinduism. It is believed that he was sent in advance to write the entire Ramayana even before any of that happened. The date of Ramayana varies from 100 to 500 BCE.

  3. Dec 7, 2023 · The Ramayana written by Hanumana is known as Hanumad Ramayana. Hanuman wrote down the life story of Lord Rama on some clay tablets and brought those to Lord Rama. Rama humbly said to Hanumana, “I have not done anything great to be recorded this laboriously…

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › ValmikiValmiki - Wikipedia

    The Ramayana, originally written by Valmiki, consists of 24,000 shlokas and seven cantos (kaṇḍas). The Ramayana is composed of about 480,002 words, being a quarter of the length of the full text of the Mahabharata or about four times the length of the Iliad .

  5. Jun 1, 2024 · Ramayana, shorter of the two great epic poems of India, the other being the Mahabharata. The Ramayana was composed in Sanskrit, probably not before 300 BCE, by the poet Valmiki and in its present form consists of some 24,000 couplets divided into seven books.

  6. Aug 30, 2016 · The Ramayana is an ancient Indian epic, composed some time in the 5th century BCE, about the exile and then return of Rama, prince of Ayodhya. It was composed in Sanskrit by the sage Valmiki, who taught it to Rama's sons, the twins Lava and Kush .

  7. Feb 1, 2019 · Valmiki, the ancient Hindu Saint who wrote the Ramayana is the original creator of the Hindu sloka, a verse form in which all epics are composed.

  8. It is believed that Valmiki Ramayana was put to writing around 500 AD. It was told and retold since several centuries orally in and around India. Maharshi Valmiki is confident of its circulation among people until mountains stay erect on the earth. Ramayana is known as a treatise of Dharma.

  9. Jul 29, 2021 · Sage Valmiki, also known as Adi Kavi or the first poet, is celebrated as a revered poet in the world of Sanskrit literature. The entire Ramayana is accredited to Valmiki and it is dated back to the 5th century BCE to the 1st century BCE.

  10. Jun 19, 2024 · The Ramayana identifies Rama as another incarnation of Vishnu and remains the principal source for the worship of Rama. Though not as long as the Mahabharata, the Ramayana contains a great deal of religious material in the form of myths, stories of great sages, and accounts of exemplary human behavior.