Starting from the 8th century, the colonisation of Southeast Asia by Indians began.

The Ramayana is not just a Hindu religious tale. The story of Rama also inspired a large amount of later-day literature in various languages, notable among which are the works of the sixteenth century Hindi poet Tulsidas and the Tamil poet Kambar of the 13th century. One of the most important literary works on ancient India, the Ramayana has had a profound impact on art and culture in the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. The characters of Rama, Sita, Lakshmana, Bharata, HanumДЃn and RДЃvana (the villain of the piece) are all fundamental to the cultural consciousness of India. It contains the teachings of ancient Hindu sages and presents them through allegory in narrative and the interspersion of the philosophical and the devotional. But, like its epic cousin MahДЃbhДЃrata, the RДЃmДЃyana is not just an ordinary story. The RДЃmДЃyana had an important influence on later Sanskrit poetry, primarily through its establishment of the Sloka meter. As with most traditional epics, since it has gone through a long process of interpolations and redactions, it is impossible to date it accurately. In its current form, the Valmiki Ramayana is dated variously from 500 BC to 100 BC, or about co-eval to early versions of the MahabhДЃrata. The RДЃmДЃyaб№‡a consists of 24,000 verses in seven cantos ( kДЃб№‡бёЌas) and tells the story of a prince, Rama of Ayodhya, whose wife Sita is abducted by the demon ( RДЃkshasa) king of Lanka, RДЃvana. The name RДЃmДЃyaб№‡a is a tatpurusha compound of RДЃma and ayana 'going, advancing', translating to 'the travels of RДЃma'. The RДЃmДЃyaб№‡a ( DevanДЃgarД«: а¤°а¤ѕа¤®а¤ѕа¤Їа¤Ј) is an ancient Sanskrit epic attributed to the poet Valmiki and is an important part of the Hindu canon ( smб№›ti). Without rendering support, you may see irregular vowel positioning and a lack of conjuncts.

Ramayan characters name