The Valmiki Ramayana (Critically Edited for the First Time) : The Yuddhakanda : The Sixth Book of the Valmiki-Ramayana: The National Epic of India

Contents: Preface. 1. Editorial note. 2. Abbreviations and diacritical signs. 3. Introduction. 4. Concordance. 5. Contents of the Yuddhakanda. 6. Text and critical apparatus. Appendix. Errata and Corregenda.

This first critical Edition of the Yuddhakanda of Valmiki’s Ramayana is based on four selected printed editions, thirty four selected manuscripts in several different scripts, viz the Sarada, Newari, Maithili, Bengali, Devanagari, Telugu, Grantha and Malayalam procured from different parts of India and abroad, Ksemendra’s Epitome called the Ramayana Manjari and several commentaries from the oldest available of Udari Varadarana. The material available on the Ramayana is really very vast, and the organizers and the Editor has to ignore several printed editions for which the reader is referred to Shri N.A. Gore’s Bibliography of the Ramayana, as well as second rate or dilapidated or damaged manuscripts. All the same, the editor desires to assure the reader that he has utilized every important work which was useful one way or another for the fixing of the text of the Yuddhakanda…