Ramayana

by William Buck, B.A. van Nooten (Introduction), Shirley Triest (Illustrator)

Overview

An elegant translation of the beloved epic tale of Prince Rama

Few works of literature have inspired so vast an audience across so many radically different languages and cultures as the Ramayana, written in Sanskrit over 2,000 years ago 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 with a style that make the great epic accessible without compromising the spirit and lyricism of the original.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520383388
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	06/08/2021
Series:	World Literature in Translation
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	388
Sales rank:	1,147,546
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.75(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

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 1970.

Table of Contents

Publisher's Preface

Introduction

List of Characters

PART ONE: The Prince of Ayodhya

Born as a Man

The Thorn in the World's Side

Taste This Waster

The Two Wishes

Lord of the Wild Trees

Bharata Returns

The Sandals

PART TWO: Sita's Rescue

Dandaka Forest

The Golden Deer

Hanuman!

The Search

Hanuman's Jump

Here I Am

The New Moon

The Building of the Bridge

The Siege of Lanka

The Invisible Warrior

Ravana and Time

PART THREE: The Dharma Wheel

Here's Love!

The Wonderful Return

In What Dream?

Farewell again, My Lady and My King