Dear list members
I recently came to know from Patrick Finn (author of ‘Quilts of India: Timeless Textiles’) that the first two volumes of Tulsidas: The Epic of Ram, the seven-volume English translation of Gosvāmī Tulasīdāsa's Rāmacaritamānasa by Prof. Philip Lutgendorf (University of Iowa), have been published in December and are now available for purchase.
The two volumes, part of the Murty Classical Library of India (MCLI), cover the complete Bālakāṇḍa of the epic. The first volume covers stanzas 1–175 and the second covers stanzas 176–361. The bibliographic details along with table of contents of the two volumes are available from the HUP website under the following links (from where they can be purchased too)
In India, both hardcover and paperback editions are available for pre-ordering on Amazon. The books will be released on Amazon India in around three weeks time, and will be available in leading bookstores and airports across the country.
These volumes are part of the newest English translation of the Rāmacaritamānasa, published nearly 135 years after Frederic Salmon Growse gave us the first English translation around 1880 CE.
Regards,
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