Valmiki Ramayana (two Volumes)
author: Gita Press
edition: 2014, Gita Press, Gorakhpur
pages: 1971
ISBN-10: 8129300303
ISBN-13: 9788129300300
Topic: Ramayana
Balakanda, chapter 32
This page describes chapter 32 of the Balakanda (Sanskrit: Bālakāṇḍa) located on page 88 of volume 1 in Valmiki’s Ramayana published by Gita Press. The Ramayana captures the story of Rama as he chases and battles king Ravana who captured Sita and transported her to Lanka. This page contains an online preview of the full text and summarizes technical terms, as well as information if you want to buy this book.
Summary of contents: An account of the four sons of Kusha; the hundred daughters of Kushanabha turn hunch-backed under a curse of the wind-god
Original transliteration of Sanskrit words using IAST:
Kusha or Kusa: Kuśa
Kushanabha or Kusanabha: Kuśanābha
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You can look up the meaning of the phrase “Balakanda, chapter 32” according to 261 books dealing with Hinduism. The following list shows a short preview of potential definitions.
Puranic encyclopaedia [by Vettam Mani]
Of these Mahodayapura, city of Kushanabha, became later famous as Kanyakubja. (Bala Kanda, Valmiki Ramayana).How Mahodayapura became Kanyakubja.Kushanabha begot a hundred daughters of the nymph Ghritaci Those beautiful girls were once playing in the forests when the wind-god fell in love with them. The girls rejected his love and Vayu getting angry with them cursed them and made them hunchbacks....
Read full contents: Story of Kanyakubja
Ramayana of Valmiki [by Hari Prasad Shastri]
Vishvamitra tells of his ancestors and the dynasty of King Kusha. “O Rama, in times of yore, there was a king named Kusha, he was the son of a brahmin, a noted ascetic, faithful to his vows, conversant with dharma and ever revered by the virtuous. He wedded a high-born woman of great beauty named Bhidharvi, and begat four sons, each resembling himself....
Read full contents: Chapter 32 - Vishvamitra tells of his ancestors and the dynasty of King Kusha
Ramayana [by Manmatha Nath Dutt]
Bala-kanda. Balakanda (बालकाण्ड, balakanda) or Bala-kanda (बाल-काण्ड, bala-kanda)....
Read full contents: Book 1 - Bala-kanda
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