English works on values in Ramayana and Mahabharata

[Nityanand Misra]

Dear list members

A former classmate of mine is looking for English books to help her get a better understanding of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. She does not want to read original text or translations, does not know Sanskrit and is not comfortable reading in Hindi or other Indian languages. She is especially looking for books which elaborate on righteousness of the characters and treatment of women in the two epics (she is more curious than judgemental/feminist).

There are a lot of easy-to-find English books (e.g. works of Doniger or Devdutt Pattanaik) which give a narrow, biased, or even mistaken perspective on these matters. What might help here would be the traditional perspective in English, like what works like Dharmakutam and Ramayana Mimamsa of Svami Karpatri offer. 

Any books the list can recommend? I know of Shatavadhani Ganesh Ji's Human Values in Ramayana, but no idea where to get it from. 

Thanks, Nityanand

[Ganesh R]

Dear Mishra mahOdaya,

It is so kind of you to remember by small booklets. They are published by the Gandhi Center of Human Values,  Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan,  Bangalore center.  Here original quotations from these two epics with simple English translation are given. These are specially meant for the beginners. Apart from these, many other titles on similar subjects authored by different scholars are also available. Special mention must be made about the book pack of ten titles dealing with various aspects of Sanskrit literature that includes the Vedas, Upanishads, arthashaastra, dharmashaastra, alamkaarashaastra, sixty four arts,  sciences etc. This is particularly meant for the youth.

Regards

Ganesh

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[Ganesh R]

Sorry,  it should be my booklets and not by booklets

[Prasad Jawalgekar]

You may try Ramayana books series in English by Shubha Vilas. As far as I know, till now 3 books are printed and are available for purchase on amazon and other websites. My friend had gifted me one. I was very inspired to read how he connected situations in Ramayana to human values.

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[an.nar...@yahoo.co.in]

There is a nice book 'Lectures of Ramayana' by Rt Honorable Srinivasa Shastry where he analyses several characters in his own inimitable style. However, I am not
sure if that book is available. I have an old copy from my father's library.

rgds-Narasimhan

[Ajit Gargeshwari]

​ 'Lectures of Ramayana' by Rt Honorable Srinivasa Shastry is available at DLI

Regards
Ajit Gargeshwari
न जायते म्रियते वा कदाचिन्नायं भूत्वा भविता वा न भूयः।
अजो नित्यः शाश्वतोऽयं पुराणो न हन्यते हन्यमाने शरीरे।।2.20।।

[Dr.S.R.Leela(MLC)]

See Ramakrishna  math publications.They are good and not expensive.math has published books in all indian languages and of course in English as well.

Leela s.r.

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[sunil bhattacharjya]

It is also available as a part of the Vol. 2 of the "Speeches and writings of Rt. Hon'ble V.S.Srinivasa Sastri" in the following link :

<http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/28891?show=full>

The Hindi version is available from <archive.org>

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[S Saha]

Thanks a lot of this,Gitarthi!

[Muthulakshmi Ramachandran]

Respected scholars,
The Kuppuswamy Sastri Research Institute, chennai-has recently released the reprint of the book, 'lectures on Ramayana by shri. Srinivasa sasti. You can enquire through Email:
ksr...@gmail.com. Also you  can contact over phone:.044 24985320.

[Nagaraj Paturi]

It is on scribd too. I shared the link to it in one of my older posts to Prof. Bijoy Misra.

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Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.

 

Former Senior Professor of Cultural Studies

 

FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of  Liberal Education,

 

(Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA )

 

 

 

[ravi khangai]

Women in the Mahabharata by chaturvedi badrinath.
Eminent women of the Mahabharata in 2 vol. By vanmala bhawalkar.
Gender and narratives in the Mahabharata by Simon Brodbeck and Brain Black

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From: Muthulakshmi Ramachandran
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Subject: Re: {भारतीयविद्वत्परिषत्} Re: English works on values in Ramayana and Mahabharata

[Damodara Dasa]

Hare Krishna.

>Special mention must be made about the book
> pack of ten titles dealing with various aspects of Sanskrit literature that
> includes the Vedas, Upanishads, arthashaastra, dharmashaastra,
> alamkaarashaastra, sixty four arts, sciences etc. This is particularly
> meant for the youth.

I am interested in this pack of ten booklets. But need to know it is
authored by whom and where it is available.

Thankyou,
Damodara Das
+91 9737475085

On 1/20/16, Ganesh R <avadhan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Mishra mahOdaya,
>
> It is so kind of you to remember by small booklets. They are published by
> the Gandhi Center of Human Values, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bangalore
> center. Here original quotations from these two epics with simple English
> translation are given. These are specially meant for the beginners. Apart
> from these, many other titles on similar subjects authored by different
> scholars are also available.
>

> Regards
>
> Ganesh
> On Jan 20, 2016 10:23 AM, "Nityanand Misra" <nmi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear list members
>>
>> A former classmate of mine is looking for English books to help her get a
>> better understanding of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. She does not
>> want
>> to read original text or translations, does not know Sanskrit and is not
>> comfortable reading in Hindi or other Indian languages. She is especially
>> looking for books which elaborate on righteousness of the characters and
>> treatment of women in the two epics (she is more curious than
>> judgemental/feminist).
>>
>> There are a lot of easy-to-find English books (e.g. works of Doniger or
>> Devdutt Pattanaik) which give a narrow, biased, or even mistaken
>> perspective on these matters. What might help here would be the
>> traditional
>> perspective in English, like what works like Dharmakutam and Ramayana
>> Mimamsa of Svami Karpatri offer.
>>
>> Any books the list can recommend? I know of Shatavadhani Ganesh Ji's

>> *Human
>> Values in Ramayana*, but no idea where to get it from.

>>
>> Thanks, Nityanand
>>
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