More than 400 great poets and saints like Kalidas, Bhas, Bhatti, Praversen, Bhavbhuti, Kshemendra, Rajshekhar, Kumardas, Vishwanath, Somdev, Gunadutt, Narad, Lomesh, Guru Govind Singh, the Samarth Guru Ramdas, Maithili Sharan Gupt, Keshavdas and Saint Tukdoji etc, have written poems, prose and literature on Ram and other characters of the Ramayana.Įven in other countries we can find versions of Ramayana, like the Tibetan Ramayana, Turkistan's Khotani Ramayana, Indonesia's Kakbin Ramayana, Java's Seratram, Sairiram, Ramkeling, Patani Ramkatha Indo-China's Ramkerti (Ramkirti), Khamer Ramayana Burma's Ramyagan of Yuto Thai land's Ramkiyen etc all narrate the story of Ram in a picturesque way. The Hindi Ramcharitmanas authored by Tulsidas has achieved a very prominent place in northern India. Apart from these, more versions of the Ramayana have been written in Sanskrit, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Assamese, Urdu, Arabic, Persian, etc. There are at least 11 versions of Ramayana in Hindi, eight in Marathi, 25 in Bangla, 12 in Tamil, five in Telugu and six in Oriya. The story of Ram was also written in various other Indian regional languages. As per Jain tradition the original name of Ram was 'Padam'. It is talked about in Muni Vyas's Mahabharata at four places - Ramopakhayan, Aaranyak Parva, Drona Parva and Dashrath Kathanak in Buddhist literature it finds mention in three Jatak parables, viz, Dashrath Jatak, Anamak Jatak and Dashrath Kathanak in Jain literature many manuscripts were written on Ram, like Padam Charitra (Prakrit) by Vimal Suri Padam Puran (Sanskrit) by Ravisen Acharya Padam Charitra (Apbhransh) and Charitra Puran (Sanskrit) by Swambhu and Uttar Puran (Sanskrit) by Gunbhadra. The story of Ram did not remain confined to the pages of Valmiki Ramayana, but it also finds a mention in various other scriptures of history and ancient literature. This noble work of literature credits Valmiki as the earliest poet of the world.
The most authentic and original source of knowledge about Ram is the Valmiki Ramayana. Those who were not strong of character and men of words were un-arya. Then there were only two divisions in human society � Arya and Un-Arya ( asurs, rakshas). Then neither was the world divided into Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jews etc, nor broken up on the basis of modern day caste barriers. This was the era when the whole world understood one language and speech, as mentioned in the holy book, the Bible (Genesis 11.1).
His time was that of great kings and world empires. Since thousands of years, not just in India but also all over the world, one of the greatest men who influenced and touched the hearts of millions � both common men and elite alike - with his strength of character is Ram.
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