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VALMIKI’s RAMAYANA BOX SET
Amar Chitra Katha brings you Valmiki’s Ramayana book– the Box Set, containing 960 pages (6 volumes) of colour and visual action in the graphic format.
The story of Rama’s childhood, his exile, Sita’s abduction, Hanuman’s devotion, and Ravana’s death, form a heroic tale, which teaches numerous values.
Valmikis Ramayana book illustrative and easy-to-read comic book set helps children not only learn about duty and honour, good and evil, love and loss, jealousy and destructive ambitions, it also helps develop their imagination and vocabulary.
The first volume of the Ramayana set narrates the story of Rama’s childhood. From King Dasharatha’s deep penance to obtain a child to Rama’s schooling under the renowned rishi Vishwamitra, this book highlights the many adventures of the young princes, Rama and Lakshmana. It also tells the story of King Janaka’s daughter, Sita, an extraordinary princess born of the earth, who is promised to the man who will be able to lift and string the great bow of Shiva.
The second section of Valmiki’s Ramayana describes the events that lead up to Rama’s exile from Ayodhya. When King Dasharatha announces Rama’s ascension to the throne, his youngest wife, Kaikeyi, demands Rama’s exile and the installation of her son, Bharata, as king. Bound by an earlier promise, Dasharatha gives in as despair looms over the kingdom of Ayodhya.
The Ramayana witnesses interesting encounters in its third section, as Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana wander through the Dandaka forest during their 14 years of exile. The trio meets various demons and ogres on their journey, most of whom are liberated from earlier curses by their meeting with Rama. But it is an encounter with the ogress, Supranakha, that leads to the abduction of Sita and the epic war with Ravana, the demon king of Lanka.
The fourth book in Valmiki’s Ramayana traces the search for Sita. Rama and Lakshmana meet the exiled vanara king, Sugriva, and his trusted friend and general, Hanuman. Rama helps Sugriva win his kingdom back from his brother, Vali. Sugriva, in return, promises Rama to track down Sita with the help of his vanara army.
This action-packed section of the Ramayana describes Hanuman’s flight to Lanka in search of Sita. He finds Sita, surrounded by rakshasis, in the garden called Ashoka Vana, waiting for her husband to rescue her. Overwhelmed with grief and anger at his queen’s plight, he wreaks havoc on the beautiful gold city of Lanka, leaving it destroyed in a blazing inferno.
Hanuman returns with news about Sita and urges Rama to rescue her at the earliest. Rama’s army of vanaras crosses the wide ocean and heads towards Lanka where Ravana’s evil forces are waiting for them. The last volume of the Valmiki’s Ramayana box set is packed with dramatic action, describing every detail of this ultimate battle between good and evil and its aftermath.
Hanuman returns with news about Sita and urges Rama to rescue her at the earliest. Rama’s army of vanaras crosses the wide ocean and heads towards Lanka where Ravana’s evil forces are waiting for them. The last volume of the Valmiki’s Ramayana box set is packed with dramatic action, describing every detail of this ultimate battle between good and evil and its aftermath.
All Indian names and terms are explained in glossaries at the end of each volume.
But why only children?
This box set is a good read for adults too.
Why should only kids have graphics fun?
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