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Valmiki teaches the Ramayana to Rama's sons

Valmiki being inspired to write the Ramayana

How was the Ramayana translated into contemporary English?

Ramlila (Ramleela) performance

Ram Mandir in Ayodhya

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Valmiki teaches the Ramayana to Rama's sons

Valmiki being inspired to write the Ramayana

Ramlila (Ramleela) performance

Ram Mandir in Ayodhya

How was the Ramayana translated into contemporary English?

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Poet John Milton

John Milton

English poet

Homer

Homer

Greek poet

mosaic of Virgil with Clio and Melpomene

Virgil

Roman poet

Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio

Italian poet and scholar

Torquato Tasso

Torquato Tasso

Italian poet

Hesiod

Hesiod

Greek poet

Ferdowsī (lower left corner) with three poets in a garden, miniature from a Persian manuscript, 17th century; in the British Library

Ferdowsī

Persian poet

Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.

Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson

Norwegian author

Quintus Ennius

Roman author

Rustaveli, Shota

Shota Rustaveli

Georgian poet

Lucan

Roman author

Statius

Roman poet

Peretz Markish

Russian writer

Apollonius of Rhodes

Greek poet

Silius Italicus

Roman poet

Lucius Livius Andronicus

Roman author

Gaius Valerius Flaccus

Roman poet

Claudian

Roman author

Robert McAlmon

American author

Gnaeus Naevius

Roman writer

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Ganesha. Hinduism. Ganesha, the elephant-headed Hindu god of beginnings, figure on external walls of a South Indian Temple in Kerala, India.

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