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by manoj on Apr 16, 2007 06:46 PM Permalink | Hide replies

Read Ashok K Banker's Ramayana edition- Here he has written clearly that the bridge the Lord Ram was trying to build will be destroyed in Tsunami.

Later Sea creatures will raise the hood for the monkey army to cross the palk strait one by one for two days.

Later they return to Ayodhya using Ravana's Pushpuk with sita and they do it in a day.

So according to original valmiki's edition still the bridge or now supposedly seen sand bridge cannot be scientifically claimed.

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RE:Read the book from Amazon
by chaitanya kumar on Apr 16, 2007 06:55 PM Permalink
Valmiki wrote the ramayana who lived during ram's time. According to wikipedia, Ashok Banker's Ramayana is "A contemporary novel, it is an epic hard science fiction story about a war between the gods of different faiths. Weary of the constant infighting between religious sects and their deities, God (aka Allah, Yahweh, brahman, or whatever one chooses to call the Supreme Deity) wishes to destroy creation altogether." That says it all. It's contemporary fiction. Hindus have respect for valmiki's ramayana, not this Banker's fiction.

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RE:Read the book from Amazon
by chaitanya kumar on Apr 16, 2007 07:01 PM Permalink
valmiki was from untouchables of that time. That is one of the beauty about Ramayana.

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RE:Read the book from Amazon
by manoj on Apr 16, 2007 07:03 PM Permalink
Valmiki's ramayana is not in english so Ashok K banker has written Ramayana based on Valmiki edition.
Just read the book then comment.

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RE:Read the book from Amazon
by Malakpet Rowdy on Apr 16, 2007 10:28 PM Permalink
Even I can write my own version of Ramayan and market it - big deal?

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RE:Read the book from Amazon
by chaitanya kumar on Apr 16, 2007 07:07 PM Permalink
why are you posting such crap here? this article has to do with ram sethu and ramayana. I don't think it's funny when you recommend some remix version of some guy whose credentials does not include being a scientific researcher.

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RE:Read the book from Amazon
by chaitanya kumar on Apr 16, 2007 07:17 PM Permalink
over the years many English translations of Ramayana have been made. This is one of the first available translations -

RÁMÁYAN OF VÁLMÍKI
RALPH T. H. GRIFFITH, M. A.,
[1870-1874]

http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/rama/index.htm

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