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The Ramayana - ketchim - 10-19-2011
A quarrel has broken out in the Indian capital over whether Delhi university
should teach a controversial essay about the Hindu epic, the Ramayana.
Re: The Ramayana - ketchim - 10-19-2011
The essay by the well-known scholar AK Ramanujan was dropped from the
history syllabus earlier this week :
after protests from Hindu hardline groups.!
Re: The Ramayana - SCA - 10-19-2011
Ketch...you gettin' back to your roots???
Re: The Ramayana - ketchim - 10-19-2011
The Ramayana, written by the Hindu sage Valmiki:
Ram and Sita were married and are held up as an ideal couple.
Ravana, it says, desired Sita for himself, kidnapped her and held her hostage
until Ram rescued her.
Re: The Ramayana - ketchim - 10-19-2011
[quote author=SCA link=topic=57456.msg368344#msg368344 date=1319033204]
Ketch...you gettin' back to your roots???
[/quote]
Goog Lee once proved to me that Ram BUILT a bridge from India to Lanka ! :wink:
Re: The Ramayana - SCA - 10-19-2011
[quote author=ketchim link=topic=57456.msg368348#msg368348 date=1319033642]
Goog Lee once proved to me that Ram BUILT a bridge from India to Lanka ! :wink:
[/quote]
Googs tellin' you what you know already?
Re: The Ramayana - ketchim - 10-19-2011
Space images taken by NASA reveal a mysterious ancient bridge in the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka.
The recently discovered bridge currently named as Adam’s Bridge is made of chain of shoals, c.18 mi (30 km) long.
Re: The Ramayana - ketchim - 10-19-2011
In this epic, there is a mentioning about a bridge, which was built between
Rameshwaram (India) and Srilankan coast :
under the supervision of a dynamic and invincible figure called Rama
who is supposed to be the incarnation of the supreme....
Re: The Ramayana - ketchim - 10-19-2011
![[Image: bridge.jpg]](http://www.krishna.org/images/Misc/bridge.jpg)
Re: The Ramayana - SCA - 10-19-2011
[quote author=ketchim link=topic=57456.msg368353#msg368353 date=1319033889]
In this epic, there is a mentioning about a bridge, which was built between
Rameshwaram (India) and Srilankan coast :
under the supervision of a dynamic and invincible figure called Rama
who is supposed to be the incarnation of the supreme....
[/quote]
And here I thougth that I was part of the supreme...