Sundara Kanda is regularly studied as ‘paraayana’. The intended benefit is overcoming obstacles of all kinds, including harmful ‘astrological transit’ of grahas Ramayana literally means the ‘journey ...

There are phases in life when nothing feels stable. The mind becomes restless. Fear grows silently. Even small problems start ...

Sundara Kanda of the Valmiki Ramayana is so named because of its many beauties. Nothing is sweet throughout. Even a stalk of sugarcane is sweet in portions, but not all parts of it are sweet. But the ...

Those who translated Valmiki Ramayana into different languages had interpreted the epic in their own way and it led to a series of controversies over the essence of Ramayana, according to scholar and ...

HYDERABAD: The Delhi state government was indulging in ‘competitive Hindutva’ with the BJP and its decision to have recitations of the ‘Sundarakanda’ of the Ramayana, and Hanuman Chalisa recitation, ...

Growing up in the 1960s, N Sridevi remembers the many Diwalis she spent listening to a priest reciting shlokas from the Sundara Kanda, the fifth book of the epic Ramayana. This book details the ...

Valmiki's Ramayana has a direct and indirect meaning. Some see in it only a great literary work dealing with the heroic exploits of Rama. Valmiki's Ramayana has a direct and indirect meaning. Some see ...