

1 The remake of Ramayan series was again presented by Sagar Arts and which aired on NDTV Imagine in 2008. As with the India Wikia, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License. Ramayan is an Indian historical-drama epic television series, which aired during 1987-1988, created, written, and directed by Ramanand Sagar. Philosophy alone or rituals alone or mythology alone cannot be sufficient. One cannot understand Hindu dharma unless one knows Rama and Sita, Bharata, Lakshmana, Ravana, Kumbhakarna and Hanuman. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. The Ramayana is not history or biography. The characters of Rama, Sita, Lakshmana, Bharata, Hanumān and Rāvana (the villain of the piece) are all fundamental to the cultural consciousness of India. It contains the teachings of the very ancient Hindu sages and presents them through allegory in narrative and the interspersion of the philosophical and the devotional. But, like its epic cousin the Mahābhārata, the Rāmāyana is not just an ordinary story. Verses in Rāmāyana are written in thirty two syllable meter called anustubh and the epic was an important influence on later Sanskrit poetry and Indian life and culture, primarily through its establishment of the śloka meter. It was the original story on which other versions were based such as the Khmer Reamker, the Thai Ramakien, the Lao Phra Lak Phra Lam the Malay Hikayat Seri Rama and the Maranao Darengan. Many scholars question the authorship of the certain passages from the first book (Bala Kanda) and question the authenticity of the last book (Uttara Kanda) for various reasons. sage Valmiki comprised of seven kandas or books. The Rāmāyaṇa Devanāgarī: (lang-रामायण) is an ancient Sanskrit epic attributed to the Hindu sage ( maharishi) Valmiki and an important part of the Hindu canon ( sm ṛti). The original Ramayana written by the 4th c.
