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Cover Title Page Dedication Table of Contents Foreword: The Demon’s boons Prologue: In an asokavana Bala Kanda: the Beginning

On the banks of the river Tamasa A curse The Ramayana Ayodhya The need for an avatara King Dasaratha’s sons Viswamitra Kamasrama The cursed forest The legend of Vamana A yagna completed By the golden Sona Ganga Rishi Gautama’s asrama Mithila Siva’s bow Dasaratha comes to Mithila Rama Kalyana Bhargava

Ayodhya Kanda: in ayodhya

Rama A yuvaraja for Ayodhya The joyful news Preparations for a crowning A queen’s mind is poisoned The long night At the palace The boons of Kaikeyi Lakshmana’s anger The way of dharma Sita Lakshmana Rama and Dasaratha Rama leaves Ayodhya Grief The people of Ayodhya The hunter king Across the Ganga Into the deep vana Rishi Bharadvaja’s asrama Chitrakuta Sumantra returns A forgotten curse The death of a king Bharata Kausalya Last rites To the vana A night in an asrama A reunion of brothers A question of dharma Parting Nandigrama

Aranya Kanda: in the forest

Leaving Chitrakuta Anasuya Deeper into the jungle Sharabhanga A matter of dharma Ten years Agastya Muni A friend in the wilderness A battle at Panchavati In Lanka Surpanaka again Maricha persuaded A golden deer The dark mendicant The valour of Jatayu Sita in Lanka Rama’s despair Wrath Jatayu dies Kabandha Shabari Rama’s grief

Kishkinda Kanda: in kishkinda

On Rishyamooka A friendship sworn The vanara brothers Dundubhi Seven sala trees An arrow from the leaves Vali’s anguish The light beyond Tara’s grief King of the vanaras The rains and after Grief and anger Lakshmana comes to Kishkinda The diplomacy of Tara The quest for Sita In the south Despair Sampati Who will cross the sea? The son of the wind

Sundara Kanda: hanuman’s adventure

The leap of faith Lankini Lanka In Ravana’s antapura The little temple In the asokavana Trijata’s dream The shimshupa tree The way of dharma The choodamani The terrible vanara The coils of an astra In Ravana’s sabha The monkey’s tail A hero returns The king’s vineyard ‘Lord, I have seen Sita!’

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