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Period: Dashavatara Vishnu Jaipur Victoria and Albert Museum

The name Ramayana means "Rama" + "Aayana" , where as Rama is name of Lord or God and Aayana means Path or Way. The literal meaning of the name is "the journey of Rāma" or "the career of Rāma" or in other words path or way taken or chosen by Rama during the human life cycle form at earth, during Treta Yuga (869000 years ago) in Jambudweep(Java Plum)/Aryavart/India

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Period: Dashavatara Vishnu Jaipur Victoria and Albert Museum

The name Ramayana means "Rama" + "Aayana" , where as Rama is name of Lord or God and Aayana means Path or Way. The literal meaning of the name is "the journey of Rāma" or "the career of Rāma" or in other words path or way taken or chosen by Rama during the human life cycle form at earth, during Treta Yuga (869000 years ago) in Jambudweep(Java Plum)/Aryavart/India

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Rama (left third from top) depicted in the Dashavatara, the ten


avatars of Vishnu. Painting from Jaipur, now at the Victoria and
Albert Museum

In terms of narrative time, the action of the Ramayana predates


the Mahabharata. However, the general cultural background of
the Ramayana is one of the post-urbanization periods of the eastern
part of north India, while the Mahabharata reflects the Kuru areas
west of this, from the Rigvedic to the late Vedic period.

By tradition, the text belongs to the Treta Yuga, second of the four


eons (Yuga) of Hindu chronology. Rama is said to have been born in
the Treta Yuga (869000 years ago) to king Dasharatha in
the Ikshvaku dynasty.

The names of the characters (Rama, Sita,


Dasharatha, Janaka, Vashista, Vishwamitra) are all known only in
the late Vedic literature.[citation needed]
 For instance, a king named
Janaka appears in a lengthy dialogue in the Brihadaranyaka
Upanishad with no reference to Rama or the Ramayana.[14] However,
nowhere in the surviving Vedic poetry is there a story similar to
the Ramayana of Valmiki. According to the
modern academic view, Vishnu, who, according to Bala Kanda, was
incarnated as Rama, first came into prominence with the epics
themselves and further, during the puranic period of the later 1st
millennium CE. Also, in the epic Mahabharata, there is a version of
the Ramayana known as Ramopakhyana. This version is depicted as
a narration to Yudhishthira.

Books two to six form the oldest portion of the epic, while the first
and last books (Bala Kand and Uttara Kand, respectively) are later
additions: style differences and narrative contradictions between
these two volumes and the rest of the epic have led scholars since
Hermann Jacobi to the present toward this consensus.[15] The author
or authors of Bala kanda and Ayodhya kanda appear to be familiar
with the eastern Gangetic basin region of northern India and with
the Kosala, Mithila and Magadha regions during the period of the
sixteen Mahajanapadas, based on the fact that the geographical and
geopolitical data accords with what is known about the region.

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