The Ramayana
Subtitle: a shortened modern prose version of the Indian epic
By: (retold) by R.K. Narayan (suggested by the Tamil version of Kamban).
Contributors: Kamban.
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Harmondsworth
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
Subjects: Fiction in English.
Description: A retelling of the Tamil epic poem which records Prince Rama's search for his abducted sweetheart, Sita.
Notes: '... by no means a translation nor a scholarly study, but may be called a resultant literary product out of the impact of Kamban on my mind as a writer' - Introduction.

This version originally published, New York , Viking Press, 1972 ; London , Chatto and Windus, 1973.