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1) RAMAYANA IN MoNGOLIA AND RUSSIA: on 15th December 1972, on front page of Deccan Herald, there was the news of storysimilar to Ramayana published in capital city Elista, Kalmyk, Russia. The news furtherconfirms the legends of Ramayana being popular among Kalmyk citizens with manyversions of Ramayana stored across the various libraries of Kalmyk. The news furtheradds that characters of epic Ramayana were very famous since time unknown. Similarly,another Russian writer,Domodin Suren, mentioned various legendsof ramayana popularamong Kalmyk and Mongolian people. Prof C F Glostunky`s book named Academy ofSciences is sitiuated in Erstwhile near Siberian,U.S.S.R. This book written in Kalmyklanguage describes various ramayana legends popular along the Coastal areas of VolgaRiver. Lastly a huge compilation of books related to Ramayana are still preserved andavailaible publicly in Mongolian and Russian languages in leningrad province.

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Play of Ramayana in russia 2) RAMAYANA IN CHINA:- In China, huge collection of Jatak tales(251 A.D), related to Ramayana events wascompiled by Kang Seng Hua. Another book(742 AD) describes the plight of Ramafather(Dasarath) after he was forced to outcast Rama for 14 years. Similarly, His-Yii-Chiiwrote a novel in 1600 AD called Kapi(meaning monkey) which describes the events andstories of hanuman. 3) RAMAYANA IN SRILANKA:- Kumardasa(originally Naresh Kumar Dhatusena), ruler of srilanka in 617 AD, compiled abook in sanskrit called Janakiharan. Till date, it has been regarded as the oldest Sanskrit


literature of Sri Lanka. Later, John D`Silva and C. Don Bostean also wrote books onRamayana. More than india, sri lankans adore the characters of ramayana including theirown ravana

4) RAMAYANA IN KAMPUCHIA(COMBODIA): Today also, many inscriptions on rocks belonging to khmer empire of 700 AD, can befound in Cambodia. These rock inscriptions depicts the events of Ramayana. still, wallsof many temples built during the period of Khmer kingdom depicts the events andscenes of Ramayana. Premises of Angkor watt is famous for the events of Mahabharataand Ramayana. One surprising point to note in this temple is that pictues of Hanumanand othe Vanaras are shown without their tails. Cambodian still believes only their theirface were like monkey and they didn't have tails.

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5) RAMAYANA IN INDONESIA: De Casperis mentions about a temple(9th century AD) called Chandi Loro Jongrong withpictures of Ramayana events engrossed on its walls.Indonesia have their own version ofRamayana called Kakavin which story is little different than that of Prambanan. Besidesthis, many other versions of Ramayana and its related events were described in timesearlier than Christ. This goes on to prove the popularity of Ramayana among the massesof indonesia before the advent of Islam. surprisingly,few years back, Indonesia becamethe host of first international convention on Ramayana

Artists performing ramayan in indonesia 6) RAMAYANA IN LAOS:


Loas actually sounds like the name of rama son 'Luv', When pronounced in dialect ofthe local language. Walls of Vat-Pa-Kev and Vat- She-Fum temple depicts events ofRamayana. The temples of Vat-Sisket and Vat-Pra-Kev has the books containing epic ofRamayana.French traveler Lafont translated local story 'Palaka-Palama' in his book calledPommachak.stories of popular among the masses of loas also described in this book.

Loa version of ramayana 7) RAMAYANA IN THAILAND:- Before christainity or budhism engulfed thailand, many ancient rulers of thailands hadRama as the suffix or prefix in their name. Dramatic folk plays of Ramayana is stillorganised and revered in Thailand.


Thai ramayana

RAMAYANA IN MALAYSIA:- Even today, many dramatic plays(HIKAYAT SERI) based on ramayana is organised andrevered. Every year, Dalang society conducts 200-300 plays(aprox) on Ramayana. Beforethe play starts, people praise and performs prayers to RAMA and SITA.


Yearly international Ramayana show in malaysia 9) RAMAYANA IN BURMA:- King Kayanjhitha (1084 -1112 AD) declared himself as desecendant of Rama clan. Manybooks on events of ramayana, with some written as early as 1500 AD are still revered inBurma. Some of the books like Kavyadarsh Subhasit and Ratanidhi are quite popular.Author Taranath wrote a commentary on Ramayana called locally as Zhang-Zhungpa.Similar to other countries, many dramatic plays based on ramayana are conductedacross the diffrent parts of burma.


Burmese version of ramayana 10) RAMAYANA IN NEPAL:- Nepal has one of the Ramayana oldest version(1075 AD) which is still read by modernpriests. 11) RAMAYANA IN PHILIPINES:- Essence of Ramayana can easily be seen in many traditions and customs of phillipines.According to prof Juon R Francisco survey, legends of Ramayana is very popular amongMarineo Muslims with majority of them believing him as Incarnation of God. SimilarlySulu folk and Magindanao Muslims also praise legends of Ramayana.


Philippines artist performing ramayana 12) RAMAYANA IN IRAN: Capital of Andhra Pradesh,Hyderabad boast a museum named Salarjung. This musuemhas apainting showing a monkey holding a very large stone in his hand which iscommonly percieved as Hanuman holding Dronagiri. Similarly Marco Polo in his famousbook(page no 302, vol II) wrote about a surprising belief among Muslims living in wholegulf region (from Afganistan to Algeria and Morocco). These Muslims had the belief thatmembers living in imperial house (Trebizond) were gifted short tails while medievalcontinentals had whitish skins like Englishmen.if someone starts digging in the belief of local muslims before advent of Christianity andIslam,than existence of Mahabharata and Ramayana can be proved in Arabic andEuropean countries. Many historical and archaeological significant buildings weredestroyed by dogmatic and barbaric rulers of the middle west. 13) RAMAYANA IN EUROPE:


In a recent excavation, peculiar type of paintings were found in various houses diggedout of the remains of Astrocon civilization. On close investigation, these 7 centurypaintings were identified as the events of Ramayana. Paintings consisted of twomens(with bow and arrow in their shoulders) along with group of monkey typecharacters with a lady standing besides them. Once Astrocon civilization covered over80 percent of Italy. Sir Henry Yule who transled Marcopolo works has mentioned the belief of ancestorshaving small tails among people of medieval Europe. The same has been confimed byMaharishi Dayanand in his documentary research magnum opus(Satyarth Prakash).Swamiji mentions about medieval Europe citizens calling asians as Vanaras because oftheir similar appearance to characters of Ramayana etc. This can be considered as racistcomment similar to australians referred as kangaroos. This type of epithets were also used in many other situations like describing armies ofdifferent countries during world war or in our case, naming helicopter as cheetah. samesorts of epithets were used in the form of words like Vanaras.Rakshas, etc. All thesefacts clearly demonstrates the popularity of Ramayana and its charcters all across theworld .


Ramayana show in great britain 14) RAMAYANA IN AFRICA(CONTINENT): Ethiopians declare themselves as descendents of Cushites. Now this word Cushites issaid to be the phonectic misnomer of Kush, the elder son of lord Rama. This fact isfurther verified by commentary of satpath Brahamans in various vedic mantras.Commentary includes the reference of King Bharata (Predecessor of Pandavas) rulingRhodesia. Besides these, many africans communitites praise legends of Ramayana and theyconsistently refers to numerous activities of vanaras. Name Egypt is derived from ajpati, Rama forefather name. Many other references oframa predecessor like dasratha can be found in ancient scriptures of Egypt, all verifiedby various Brahmans historical references.


15) RAMAYANA IN SOUTH AMERICAN AND NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENTS: Before North American continent was discovered by Columbus, europeans were notawared of these continents however in a book(THE HUMAN SPECIES) written by DEQNATREFAGES, it is said that Chinese were not only aware of American continent butalso had trade exchanges with them. Japanese called america as Fad-See while chinesecalled america as Fad-Sang. Similarly, america was frquently referred as paataldesh(Paatal means below foot) in india since it lied exactly opposite on the below sideto india. Ramayana, mahabharata and other ancient scriptures are full of suchreferences etc. For example: a) Mayans are supposed to be civilization of mayasur who was blesed by lord krishna.Mexican tribal area called their beautiful womens as Ulopy. In mahabaharta, arjunamarried a beautiful girl named Ulopy, daughter Patal Desh ruler.b) In his book, famous author W H Prescott provides various similarities betweenmexicans(Mayans) and Indian(Aryan) civilization with many references to prove thetrade links between these two civilizations. Writer further talks about the legend quite popular in Aztec community. This legend isabout a handsome person from the east called Quevtsal Katal, landed on west to teachon numeropus facets of advanced civilization. Later, he returned to his homeland dueto oppression by some divine creature. Surprisingly, no exact reason of his return ismentioned. Prescott further states that these legend and his stories is well documented in hishomeland. Now, only in india there is a story similar to this. In Valmiki Ramayana, thereis a mention of Rakshas(Demons) from lanka called Salkantak who was crucified byVishnu. Due to his crucification, he ran away from Lanka to reach Patal Desh and metsumali, leader of this group. There they lived for a long time and returned back when thesituation in his homeland became congenial. many such references from ramayanaclearly indicates that ramayana is history and not a mythological epic.Even today play based on ramayana called Ramasitotav is revered in various parts ofMexico. Even in Bible(new testament), there is a word called Rama. Eact sentence is "hisvoices was heard in RAMA" (ch 2/18). Rama was used as a proper noun. Instead ofrelating it directly to hindus rama, let us leave that to the biblical society to define theword Rama in bible. Many amazing questions have been raised by indian and western historians like: 1) Why the month in which muslims fast is called Ramadhan ?


2) Why there is a place in Gazastrip called Ramallaha ? 3) what was the reason behind the place in London being named as Ramsgate? 4) Why Italy capital is called Rome( phonetically similar of Rama) Similarly, Rama has been used as suffix and prefix in many such historical artifacts andplaces. There have been many answers to this questions but surprisingly, none of itgives a satisfactory conclusive answer.Without hesitation one accepted that Alexander invaded India. But do we have anyconcrete proof beside some evidences. on one other hand, same historians straightlydeny the historicity of Rama despite thousands of archaelogical and historicalevidences. In this article, i think that plenty of proof on lord rama has been provided. So, now it'supto the reader to decide what they think about it whether to be foolish to refute thehistoricity of Rama or be wise to research on to find out further truth on this. I would conclude with the following points: 1) Rama was a legendary hero(Mahanayak) who lived a simple dharmic life and an idealto all living humans. 2) Its doesn't matter if Ramaset is declared as man made bridge built by Rama or somenatural formation of sea resources. Irrespective of whether Ramsetu is declared naturalcreation or manmade, historicity of Rama cannot be refuted. 3) Valmiki Ramayana is not a fiction but a true epic supported by historical evidences.


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