page_title: Adhyatma Ramayana
hierarchical_section_title: Adhyatma Ramayana
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a page from the Brahmanda Purana manuscript. More specifically it shows verses 1.1–1.14 of the 4,500 verse long Adhyatma Ramayana, an Advaita Vedanta interpretation of the Hindu epic Ramayana. It is a key text of the Ramanandi subtradition of Vaishnavism. Language: Sanskrit Script: Devenagari This manuscript was acquired in the 19th-century, and was produced in or before the acquisition. The photo above is of a 2D artwork from the text that was itself authored more than 500 years ago. Therefore Wikimedia Commons PD-Art licensing guidelines apply. Any rights I have as a photographer is herewith donated to wikimedia commons under CC 4.0 license.
context_page_description: Adhyatma Ramayana is a 13th- to 15th-century Sanskrit text that allegorically interprets the story of Hindu epic Ramayana in the Advaita Vedanta framework. It is embedded in the latter portion of Brahmānda Purana. The Hindu tradition attributes the text to the Bhakti movement saint Ramananda.
  The text consists of 7 books, 65 chapters and 4,500 verses in the form of a dialogue between Shiva and Parvati. Adhyatama Ramayana contains the ideal characteristics of Rama and the precepts related to devotion, knowledge, dispassion, adoration and good conduct. Rama is presented as the supreme Brahman in the text, while the struggles of Sita and him are re-interpreted in an abstract spiritual form. The allegory inspired several later versions of the Ramayana story in languages like Awadhi, Odia, Bengali and Malayalam version by Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan.
context_section_description: Adhyatma Ramayana (Devanāgarī: अध्यात्म रामायण, IAST: Adhyātma Rāmāyaṇa, lit.  'Spiritual Ramayana') is a 13th- to 15th-century Sanskrit text that allegorically interprets the story of Hindu epic Ramayana in the Advaita Vedanta framework. It is embedded in the latter portion of Brahmānda Purana. The Hindu tradition attributes the text to the Bhakti movement saint Ramananda.
  The text consists of 7 books, 65 chapters and 4,500 verses in the form of a dialogue between Shiva and Parvati. Adhyatama Ramayana contains the ideal characteristics of Rama and the precepts related to devotion, knowledge, dispassion, adoration and good conduct. Rama is presented as the supreme Brahman in the text, while the struggles of Sita and him are re-interpreted in an abstract spiritual form. The allegory inspired several later versions of the Ramayana story in languages like Awadhi (Ramcharitmanas by Tulsidas), Odia, Bengali and Malayalam version by Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan.
caption: Adhyatma Ramayana verses 1.1 – 1.14 in a Brahmanda Purana manuscript (Sanskrit, Devanagari)
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