Ramayana Hardcover – December 28, 2009

What a priviledge to own the NEW latest printing of this glorious book. Arrived ahead of time in excellent condition with very good packaging. This seller can be trusted. I will order from them again.

More in-depth than many translations, especially since female characters including Sita amd Kausalya are rounded out well in this version. Keeps all the fun of the story. Very few typos. Some not-so-common Sanskrit terms could do with translation, but not so many as to detract from the experience.

Excellent English version of these beautiful epics. She also wrote the Mahabharata and Srimad Bhagavatan, the life of Krishna. Her writing is suffused with light and poetry. Hard to find these days but worth the search. Highly recommended.

This is one of the best retellings of Ramayana in English. I would give five stars for the storytelling itself — the structure and the flow of the plot; but Subramaniam's use of English is rather stilted and often clumsy, relying on idioms that become irritating in their repetition. Read this for its detail but, if you are looking for a beautifully written version as an introduction to this great story, I would first read the retelling by [William?] Buck. Both of these are retellings, not actual translations.

I loved how the author has tried to capture the poetic beauty of the original work by the sage Valmiki. As much as possible, the book reads like a poem. Nice translation and interpretation!

This faithful narration of accounts in Valmiki's Ramayana, brilliantly written by Kamala Subramaniam, has already gone into eleven editions since 1981. It is a classic. Next to reading Valmiki in original Sanskrit, this work in English would easily satiate a discerning reader.

Writtenly beautifully and reads well. A lovely way to fully immerse in more than a translation. There is a beauty to this edition.

This book and others by her are extraordinary in teaching integrity and spirituality. One can learn volumes from just one chapter at a time. It, and others by her, are bibles.