South Asian Epic Traditions: Epics

Scroll collected in Calcutta in 1980. South Asia Center, Syracuse

Andrea Acri, Helen Creese, Arlo Griffiths (eds). Articles on the Kakawin Ramayana, arguably the oldest Old Javanese epic text in Indic metres (circa 9th century AD)

Philip Lutgendorf's study of the Tulsidas Hindi version of the Ramayana epic

RÁMÁYAN OF VÁLMÍKI, translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith, M. A., [1870-1874]

The Ramayana in Sanskrit, Devanagari and Romanization

Abridged verse translation of both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, by Romesh C. Dutt, 1899

Michael Madhusudan Datta ; translated with an introduction by Clinton B. Seely, Oxford University Press, 2004

Complete Sanskrit text from National Library of Scotland. A good example of a palm leaf manuscript text

From the Sanskrit of THE MAHÂBHÂRATA by Edwin Arnold, Boston Little, Brown, and Company 1907

Abridged verse translation of both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, by Romesh C. Dutt, 1899

Translated by Kisari Mohan Ganguli, published between 1883 & 1996

Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune, India, 1999 on the basis of the text entered by Muneo Tokunaga et al., revised by John Smith, Cambridge

Links to electronic texts and commentaries; various languages and versions

James L. Fitzgerald's plot summary and reading suggestion links

All 94 episodes of B.R. Chopra's TV series onlline