Ramayana: Ayodhya Book 2 - Rilegato

Valmiki; Pollock, Sheldon I.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0814767168 ISBN 13: 9780814767160

Casa editrice: New York Univ Pr, 2005

Riassunto

The king decides to abdicate in favor of Rama; but just as the celebrations reach their climax, a court intrigue forces Rama and Sita into fourteen years banishment; they dutifully accept their fate, and go off to the jungle. The other brothers refuse to benefit from his misfortune, which leaves nobody to run the city; eventually one of them is persuaded to act as regent, but only consents to do so on condition that he lives outside the city and acts in Rama’s name.

“Ayódhya” is Book Two of Valmíki’s national Indian epic, The Ramáyana. The young hero Rama sets out willingly from the capital with wife and brother for a fourteen-year banishment, which will entail great suffering and further difficult choices in the books ahead. Of the seven books of this great Sanskrit epic, "Ayódhya" is the most human, and it remains one of the best introductions to the social and political values of traditional India.

Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation

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Book by Valmiki Valmiki

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• Editore: New York Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0814767168
• ISBN 13: 9780814767160
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 652