Valmiki

written by Valmiki, and Plato’s The Republic reflect strikingly similar views on the ideal individual and the ideal society. They echo each other when determining the criteria of placement of individuals in society, but contrast each other slightly when writing about free will and the place of women in society.…

secular and divine sources of art. “Kamala Markandaya is trying to make the story Caroline and Valmiki, a parabale of colonialism a passing of Empire and current insidious movement of neo-colonialism.” Kamala Markandaya depicts the conflict between the East and the West and its impact on the relationship and at the end danger of de-culturation. Through her description of major characters like Caroline, Valmiki, Swami and Anasuiya, she depicts the cry of alienation which comes out of the British…

subjugation and is pushed deeper into the realms of submission by his father, Valmiki was encouraged to study and was made to stay away from his family’s menial jobs. His father believed in reform and wanted him to ‘change the caste’ . Yet the endings in the two works are quite the contrary while Mulk Raj Anand evokes a ray of hope in the young Bakha’s mind by offering him an array of solutions to untouchability Valmiki ends with the bitter truth…

Ancient cultures and the mythological texts originating from them have prominent basis on gender roles. Throughout The Ramayana by Valmiki and The Creation of the Universe and Human Beings by Lui An evident gender roles set for men and women remain consistent. Research about the Hindu faith and the goddesses they worship clearifies the Ancient Indian values Valmiki’s The Ramayana symbolizes. Throughout The Creation of the Universe and Human Beings and research regarding the Yin and Yang a…

contains many traditional customs. Works of literature can have many archetypes or tropes that people have always viewed as bad or good. For example, the archetype of a demon or a demoness has always brought up negative thoughts. In the Ramayana of Valmiki, the author breaks a great cultural norm by making us feel empathy for a demoness, Śūrpanakhā. Her desire is to marry Rama but he thinks she is hideous. She is…

In the epic Ramayana, the author Valmiki portrays the complexity and intensity of relationships between man and a woman. By examining the relationship between Rama and Sita, we can find many similarities and differences in men’s and women’s role in relationship in ancient India vs our modern society. Valmiki depicts Sita as a symbol of unconditional love and commitment. The word love can be interpret as an emotion by a strong feeling of interpersonal attraction, love that transcend to…

It is a text that tells the incarnation of Rama. This story comes from the Sanskrit "History of Rama" that uses poetic language, it is an allegorical narrative and reciting story based on a religious act. The Ramayana was written by Valmiki a legendary wise man. Valmiki was a king's son but at the few months of born he was abandoned, a group of thieves found him and he formed part of this family; he took care of his family by stealing from the…

.Yoga Vasistha Yoga Vasistha (Sanskrit: योग-वासिष्ठ, Yoga-Vāsiṣṭha) is a philosophical text attributed to Valmiki, but the real author is unknown. The complete text contains over 29,000 verses. The long version of the text is called Brihat Yoga Vasistha, wherein Brihat means "great or large". The longer version is also referred to simply as Yoga Vasistha and by numerous other names such as Vasiṣṭha Ramayana. The short version of the text is called Laghu Yoga Vasishta, wherein Laghu means "short…

the life of Rama and his wife Sita. They are the idol example of perfect behavior that should be followed in a society by both men and women. Valmiki Ramayana was written with a faith that every man on earth posses the blessing of God and whenever the evil will try to spread his evilness, GOD himself will come down to earth to diminish them. Maharishi Valmiki wrote Ramayana the…

obedient to all male figures in her life. Sita, Rama’s wife, is expected to follow Rama into exile for 14 years because “[her] place is with [him]” (Valmiki 343). Furthermore, after she is kidnapped, she is expected to face trial by fire because another man touched her. Sita only survives because she is the “earthly form of heavenly Lakshmi” (Valmiki 355) and the other gods intervene. Sita, when seen as a human woman, is expected to die for loyalty to her husband, but as a goddess there is a…