Krittivasi Ramayan
15th century rendition of Ramayana / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kṛttivāsī Rāmāyaṇ,[lower-alpha 1]; also called Śrīrām Pãcālī,[lower-alpha 2] composed by the fifteenth-century Bengali poet Krittibas Ojha, from whom it takes its name, is a rendition of the Rāmāyaṇa into Bengali. Written in the traditional Rāmāyaṇa Pā̃cālī form of Middle Bengali literature, the Kṛttivāsī Rāmāyaṇ is not just a rewording of the original Indian epic, but also a vivid reflection of the society and culture of Bengal across the period of its circulation, from the Middle Ages into the modern period.[1] It was characterised by Dinesh Chandra Sen in 1911 as 'by far the most popular book in Bengal' and 'the Bible of the people of the Gangetic Valley'.[2]