Related Readings (The Ramayana)

Buck, William (1976) Ramayana. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.

Dharma, Krishna (aka Kenneth Anderson) (2000) Ramayana: India’s Immortal Tale of Adventure, Love, and Wisdom. Badger, CA: Torchlight Publishing, Inc.

Goldman, Robert P. (gen. ed) The Ramayana of V?lm?ki: An Epic of Ancient India. Volume I: Balakanda. Robert P. Goldman (ed. and trans.) Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press (PUP), 1984; Sheldon Pollock (ed. and trans.) Volume II: Ayodhyanda. PUP, 1986; Sheldon Pollock (ed. and trans.) Volume III: Aranyakanda. PUP, 1991; Rosalind Lefeber (ed. and trans.) Volume IV: Kiskindhakanda. PUP, 1996.

Robert P. Goldman and Sally Sutherland Goldman (ed. and trans.). Volume V: Sundarakanda. PUP, 1996.

Hill. W. D. P. (1952)The Holy Lake of the Acts of Rama: An English translation of Tulsi Das’s Ramacaritmanasa. Calcutta: Oxford University Press.

Menon, Ramesh (2001) The Ramayana. New York: North Point Press.

Narayan, R. K. (1996) The Ramayana. New Delhi, Vision Books Pvt. Ltd.

Prasad, R. C. (ed. and trans.) (1988) Tulasidasa’s Shriramacharitamanasa: The Holy Lake of the Acts of Rama. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.

Rajagopalachari, C. (1962) Ramayana. Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan.

Sundaram, P. S. (2002) Kamba Ramayana. N.S. Jagannatha (ed.). New Delhi: Penguin.

Tapasyananda, Swami (1985) The Adhyatma Ramayana: The Spiritual Version of the Rama Saga. Mylapore, Madras: Sri Ramakrishna Math.

V?lm?ki. The Ramayana, abridged. Arshia Sattar (trans.) New Delhi: Penguin, 1996.

Venkatesananada, Swami (1988) The Concise Ramayana of Valmiki. Albany: State University of New York Press.

On the Ramayana and its Tradition

Blank, Jonah (1992) Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God, Retracing the Ramayana Through India. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company.

Dehejia, Vidya, (ed.) (1994) The Legend of Rama – Artistic Visions. Bombay, Marg Publications.

Lutgendorf, Philip (1992) The Life of a Text: Performing the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Richman, Paula, (ed.) (1991) Many Ramayanas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia. Berkeley, University of California Press.

_____, (ed.) (2001) Questioning Ramayanas: A South Asian Tradition. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Vyas, S. N. (1967) Indian in the Ramayana Age. Delhi: Atura Ram & Sons.

Whaling, F. (1980) The Rise of the Religious Significance of Rama. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.