Research Guides: South Asian Epic Traditions: Epics

Ramayana Online Resources

Bengali Scrolls of the Ramayana
Scroll collected in Calcutta in 1980. South Asia Center, Syracuse
From Lanka Eastwards: The Ramayana in the Literature and Visual Arts of Indonesia
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)
The life of a text : performing the Rāmcaritmānas of Tulsidas /
Philip Lutgendorf's study of the Tulsidas Hindi version of the Ramayana epic
Ramayana Griffith translation
RÁMÁYAN OF VÁLMÍKI, translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith, M. A., [1870-1874]
The Ramayana in Sanskrit
The Ramayana in Sanskrit, Devanagari and Romanization
Ramayana/Mahabharata Dutt translation
Abridged verse translation of both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, by Romesh C. Dutt, 1899
The slaying of Meghanada: a Ramayana from colonial Bengal
Michael Madhusudan Datta ; translated with an introduction by Clinton B. Seely, Oxford University Press, 2004

These are only a few major English translations. There are many others.

Ramayana by William Buck, B. A. van Nooten
ISBN: 0520227034
Publication Date: 1976
The Ramayana by Ramesh Menon
Call Number: BL1139.22 .E54 2004
ISBN: 0865476950
Publication Date: 2004
Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki : an epic of ancient India by Robert P. Goldman
Call Number: BL1139.22 .E54 1984
ISBN: 0691065616
Publication Date: 1984-
Forest book of the Rāmāyana of Kampan by George L. Hart and Hank Heifetz
Call Number: PL4758.9.K27 R35213 1989
ISBN: 0520060881
Publication Date: 1989
Many Rāmāyaṇas : the diversity of a narrative tradition in South Asia by Paula Richman
Call Number: PK2907.R25 M36 1991
ISBN: 0520072812
Publication Date: 1991
Questioning Ramayanas : a South Asian tradition by Paula Richman
Call Number: PK2907.R25 Q83 2001
ISBN: 0520220730
Publication Date: 2001
Ramayana stories in modern South India : an anthology by Paula Richman
Call Number: PL4608.55 .E5 2008
ISBN: 9780253349880
Publication Date: 2008
The Ramayan and other oral narratives of the Kunknas by Dahyabhai Vadhu
Publication Date: 2012
Vadodara : Central Institute of Indian Languages , 2012

Bhagavadgītā
Complete Sanskrit text from National Library of Scotland. A good example of a palm leaf manuscript text
Indian Idylls
From the Sanskrit of THE MAHÂBHÂRATA by Edwin Arnold, Boston Little, Brown, and Company 1907
Ramayana/Mahabharata Dutt translation
Abridged verse translation of both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, by Romesh C. Dutt, 1899
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
Translated by Kisari Mohan Ganguli, published between 1883 & 1996
Mahābhārata online
Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune, India, 1999 on the basis of the text entered by Muneo Tokunaga et al., revised by John Smith, Cambridge
Mahabharata Resources
Links to electronic texts and commentaries; various languages and versions
The Mahābhārata The Great Epic of India
James L. Fitzgerald's plot summary and reading suggestion links
Mahabharata TV Series
All 94 episodes of B.R. Chopra's TV series onlline

For other translations explore the library catalog.

Beginning the Mahābhārata: A Reader’s Guide to the Frame Stories by James W. Earl
ISBN: 9780983447221
Publication Date: 2011
The Complete Mahabharata by Ramesh Menon
Call Number: BL1138.25.M46 C66 2010
ISBN: 9788129115843
Publication Date: 2010
In 2 volumes
Mahabharata by C. Rajagopalachari
Call Number: BL1138.25 .R34 1952
Publication Date: 1978
The Ramayana and the Mahabharata, condensed into English verse by Romesh Dutt
Call Number: BL1138.25 .D888 1929
Publication Date: 1929
The Mahābhārata by J.A.B. van Buitenen
Call Number: BL1138.22 .E545 1973
ISBN: 0226846482
Publication Date: 1973-

Manimekhalai in its historical setting by Rao Bahadur S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar
Call Number: Recap PL4758.5.S3 K7
Publication Date: 1928
Manimekhalai : the dancer with the magic bowl by Shattan ; translated by Alain Danielou
ISBN: 0811210979
Publication Date: 1988
The Cilappatikāram of Iḷaṅko Aṭikaḷ : an epic of South India by R. Parthasarathy
Call Number: PL4758.9.I4 C538513 1993
ISBN: 023107848X
Publication Date: 1993
Shilappadikaram (The ankle bracelet) by Prince Ilangô Adigal by Alain Daniélou
Call Number: PL4758.9.I4 C528 1967
ISBN: 68088983
Publication Date: 1967

The interior landscape; love poems from a classical Tamil anthology by A. K. Ramanujan
Call Number: PL4758.65.E54 K878 1967
Publication Date: 1967
Kur̲untokai : a critical edition and annotated translation of the Kur̲untokai by Eva Wilden
Call Number: PL4758.2 .W55 2010
ISBN: 9782855391069
Publication Date: 2010
Love stands alone : selections from Tamil Sangam poetry by M.L. Thangappa
ISBN: 9780670084197
Publication Date: 2010
Nar̲r̲iṇai : text and translation by N. Kandasamy Pillai
ISBN: 9788184701654
Publication Date: 2008
Poems of love and war : from the eight anthologies and the ten long poems of classical Tamil by A. K. Ramanujan
Call Number: PL4758.65.E5P63 2011
ISBN: 9780231157346
Publication Date: 2011
With a forward by David Shulman
Tamil love poetry : the five hundred short poems of the Ainkurunuru, an early third century anthology by Martha Ann Selby
Call Number: PL4758.65.E5 A56 2011
ISBN: 9780231150644
Publication Date: 2011