Arrow of the blue-skinned God : retracing the Ramayana through India / Jonah Blank.

The two-thousand-year-old Sanskrit epic Ramayana chronicles Lord Rama's journey from one end of the Indian subcontinent to the other and his spiritual voyage from man to deity. In Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God, anthropologist and journalist Jonah Blank retells the ancient story in a lively pros...

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Main Author: Blank, Jonah
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Grove Press, [2000]
Edition:1st Grove Press ed.
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