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Title: The Ramayana

Release Date: March 18, 2008 [Ebook #24869]

Language: English

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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE RAMAYANA***

*The RAMAYAN of VALMIKI*

*Translated into English Verse*

*by*

Ralph T. H. Griffith, M.A.

Principal of the Benares College

London: Truebner & Co.

Benares: E. J. Lazarus and Co.

1870-1874

CONTENTS

Invocation.
Book I.
Canto I. Narad.
Canto II. Brahma's Visit
Canto III. The Argument.
Canto IV. The Rhapsodists.
Canto V. Ayodhya.
Canto VI. The King.
Canto VII. The Ministers.
Canto VIII. Sumantra's Speech.
Canto IX. Rishyasring.
Canto X. Rishyasring Invited.
Canto XI. The Sacrifice Decreed.
Canto XII. The Sacrifice Begun.
Canto XIII. The Sacrifice Finished.
Canto XIV. Ravan Doomed.
Canto XV. The Nectar.
Canto XVI. The Vanars.
Canto XVII. Rishyasring's Return.
Canto XVIII. Rishyasring's Departure.
Canto XIX. The Birth Of The Princes.
Canto XX. Visvamitra's Visit.
Canto XXI. Visvamitra's Speech.
Canto XXII. Dasaratha's Speech.
Canto XXIII. Vasishtha's Speech.
Canto XXIV. The Spells.
Canto XXV. The Hermitage Of Love.
Canto XXVI. The Forest Of Tadaka.
Canto XXVII. The Birth Of Tadaka.
Canto XXVIII. The Death Of Tadaka.
Canto XXIX. The Celestial Arms.
Canto XXX. The Mysterious Powers.
Canto XXXI. The Perfect Hermitage.
Canto XXXII. Visvamitra's Sacrifice.
Canto XXXIII. The Sone.
Canto XXXIV. Brahmadatta.
Canto XXXV. Visvamitra's Lineage.
Canto XXXVI. The Birth Of Ganga.
Canto XXXIX. The Sons Of Sagar.
Canto XL. The Cleaving Of The Earth.
Canto XLI. Kapil.
Canto XLII. Sagar's Sacrifice.
Canto XLIII. Bhagirath.
Canto XLIV. The Descent Of Ganga.
Canto XLV. The Quest Of The Amrit.
Canto XLVI. Diti's Hope.
Canto XLVII. Sumati.
Canto XLVIII