Audrey TruschkeNov 8, 2019

I know it's late, but it's Friday and with the #Ayodhyaverdict coming down tomorrow, let's do a quick round of questions.

Anything you want to know about the Ramayana -- Ask away. I'll answer the first 5 questions that come in. #history #MastodonThread #publichistory #Ramayana

Show threadSpectatorkhanNov 8, 2019
@audreytruschke how many versions of Ramanaya are there? Or it has only one version?
AvengNov 8, 2019
Show threadAudrey Truschke

@Spectatorkhan A: How many versions of the Ramayana exist?

A: Countless, and there are more all the time. It is a story always being retold. Even what we call Valmiki's Ramayana was a fluid text that existed in multiple versions.

AK Ramanujan began a famous essay on the Ramayana thus: "How many Ramayanas? Three hundred? Three thousand? At the end of some Ramayanas, a question is sometimes asked: How many Ramayans have there been? And there are stories that answer the question. Here is one."

Nov 8, 2019 at 6:07pmWeb
Show thread๐™ฟ๐šž๐š›๐šžNov 9, 2019
@audreytruschke @Spectatorkhan Marathi poet Moropant (เคฎเฅ‹เคฐเฅ‹เคชเค‚เคค) alone pledged to write 108 Ramayanas but could complete only 95. The one Niroshth Ramayan is written such that it doesn't use any labial consonants. Mind that he is writing Ramayana and now try saying Ram without using your lips ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ˜Š