Srimad Valmiki Ramayana is an epic poem of India which narrates the journey of Virtue to annihilate vice. Sri Rama is the Hero and aayana His journey. We in India believe that Sri Rama lived in Treta Yug, millennia BC and we are presently concerned with what Srimad Valmiki Ramayana tells us, rather than when it was told.
This epic poem Ramayana is a smriti which is translated as "from memory". Given the antiquity of Srimad Valmiki Ramayana, there have been some interjected verses. Sometimes these verses can be contradicting. However, scholars, grammarians, historians have put lot of effort to standardize the original text, by verifying various manuscripts available from various parts of India, thus trying to stabilize and save the text from further contradictions. An example of this effort is the critical edition of Srimad Valmiki Ramayana. This site aims to study various versions of Srimad Valmiki Ramayana and arrive at a version of Ramayana that is most relevant to modern times.
In recent times anthroplogists and other historians found the places in ramayan according to the story.. some places are in srilank and some places are in kanyakumari and andhra.
Sugreeva guha ..which was found in srilanka...
hanuman brought sanjeevini (medicine) to laxman
hanuman burnt the lanka......
ashoka vatika.. where sita kept here by ravana...
stone of the great bridge ramasethu...
about pictures are fate
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