Original text and English translation of the great poet's work describing the marriage of Sita and Rama. Includes essay descriptions of each verse.

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The Life of a Text offers a vivid portrait of one community's interaction with its favorite text—the epic Ramcaritmanas—and the way in which performances of

Realisaiton of the God, incarnation and medium of their divine speech are only the great and enlightened sages. With this fact in mind, the propitious like sket