Bishi Ramayan Ba Bichitra Ramayan By Bishwanath Khuntia
April 13, 2023 ⚊ 1 Min read ⚊ Views 79 ⚊ BLOG
The Bichitra Ramayana is significant for its innovative characterization as well as the fact that it is one of the oldest examples of a vernacular epic.
The Bichitra Ramayana asserts a special place in the larger tradition of Ramayana writing as the first Ramayana to have ever been written in a local tongue and as its indigenous, secular distinctiveness. It has its roots in the Valmiki Ramayana’s “Uttarakanda,” which Siddheswar Das (later known as Sarala Das) first wrote in Odia in the middle of the fifteenth century. Its significant departure and divergence from the original text demonstrates that it has its own goal and politics in such a potent way that the original is rendered invisible.
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