1. ramayana - Noun
2. Ramayana - Proper noun
The more ancient of the two great epic poems in Sanskrit. The hero and heroine are Rama and his wife Sita.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAbout 1.8 million words in total, the Mahabharata is roughly ten times the length of the Iliad and the Odyssey combined, or about four times the length of the Ramayana. Source: Internet
Apart from these sculptures, entire sequences from the Hindu epics (commonly the Ramayana and the Mahabharata ) have been sculpted in a clockwise direction starting at the main entrance. Source: Internet
Balinese performing arts often portray stories from Hindu epics such as the Ramayana but with heavy Balinese influence. Source: Internet
According to the Ramayana, the city is 9,000 years old and was founded by Manu, the first man (first woman was Shatarupa) in the universe according to the Vedas. Source: Internet
Ezhuthachan, regarded as the father of the modern Malayalam language, undertook an elaborate translation of the ancient Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata into Malayalam. Source: Internet
As in many oral epics, multiple versions of the Ramayana survive. Source: Internet