![]() The beautiful narration of the grand tale makes its characters come alive before our eyes. It is a narrative account of the story of Shri Rama, an analytical treatise on Ramayana, an instructional text on life skills enhancement and a moral guidebook-all dexterously combined into one. The great epic Ramayana has been presented by numerous authors in the past as a plain account, as a treatise or as an analytical commentary. There are practice sheets that also cover the development of diction, artistic ability and researching faculty in the reader or user. ![]() These task sheets are working formats creatively designed for enhancing the abilities of comparison, introspection, character analysis, unbiased reporting, perception and articulation. The last section in Volume IV describes the last and seventh phase of the epic, called Utthara Kaanda.Īt the end of each day’s instructional text, the book provides practice task sheets to enable the reader to understand, analyse, absorb and assimilate the lessons well. The Volume IV, running from day 51 to day 68 of the text, covers remaining six of the total 16 virtues ascribed to Shri Rama. Volume III provides an exposition of another seven cardinal human virtues exemplified by Ramayana running from day 35 to day 51 of the instructional text. The remaining part of Volume II corresponding to 10 days of this calendar expounds on three positive attributes or virtues that are gleaned from the lives of the characters of Ramayana. ![]() This phase ends on day 24 of the instructional calendar. ![]() Volume II covers day 16 to day 34 of the instructional contents and the sixth phase of the epic called Yuddha Kaanda. Volume I of the book covers the initial 15 days of the instructional material and the initial five phases of the epic-Bala Kaanda, Ayodhya Kaanda, Aranya Kaanda, Kishkinda Kaanda and Sundara Kaanda. Part II describes the virtues and skills of Shri Rama and other characters of the epic.Īccording to the authors, the four volumes of the book respectively represent the four Vedas which are our eternal divine scriptures-Rigveda, Yajurveda, Samaveda and Atharvaveda. Part I of the book provides an account of Valmiki Ramayana. The number 68 is significant here, as there are 68 chapters in Sundara Kaanda of Ramayana. ![]() The contents are spread over sections consisting of 68 discourse days in a father-daughter conversational style. The book is divided into two parts and four volumes written in a phased instructional mode. ![]()
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