is an ancient Sanskrit epic. It is ascribed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon (smṛti), considered to be itihāsa. The Ramayana is one of the two great epics of India, the other being the Mahabharata.
It depicts the duties of relationships, portraying ideal characters
like the ideal father, ideal servant, the ideal brother, the ideal wife
and the ideal king.The name Ramayana is a tatpurusha compound of Rāma and ayana ("going, advancing"), translating to "Rama's Journey". The Ramayana consists of 24,000 verses in seven books (kāṇḍas) and 500 cantos (sargas), and tells the story of Rama (an avatar of the Hindu preserver-God Vishnu), whose wife Sita is abducted by the king of Lanka, Ravana. Thematically, the Ramayana explores human values and the concept of dharma.
Ramayana was written (in Sanskrit) about two thousand years earlier to Mahabharata (the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India) and some characters of Ramayana presents new equations of relations in Mahabharat.
All Ram-Ravana, Arjun-Karan, Bheem-Duryodhan, Dropadi, Seeta, Shikhandi and Bheesham are present in all human hearts and that's their stage of performance too.
# above cartoon pictures thankfully shared from; http://kketish.blogspot.in/2009/03/ramayana-cartoon-images.html
# cartoon pictures are based on a movie; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sita_Sings_the_Blues
# link for more detail about Ramayana: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramayana
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