Pratyājahāra tāṃ rāmaḥ sugrīvabalamāśritaḥīaddhvā setuṃ samudrasya dagdhvā laṅkāṃ śitaiḥ śaraiḥ Māyāmāsthāya tarasā hatvā gṛdhraṃ jaṭāyuṣam Rakṣasā jānakī tasya hṛtā bhāryā balīyasā Prāptamapratimaṃ duḥkhaṃ rāmeṇa bharatarṣabha Mārkaṇḍeya responds with a quick summary of the story of Rāma: Is there any man less fortunate than I that you have seen or heard of earlier? Lamenting his plight, Yudhiṣṭhira, the eldest Pāṇḍava, asks the hermit Mārkaṇḍeya: The book is thus called the Āraṇyaka Parva or the Book of the Forest. The latter could perhaps be "an abbreviated version of the Rāmāyaṇa," for some definition of "version." The Story of Rāma in the Mahābhārataīook 3 of the Mahābhārata covers a period when the epic's heroes, the Pāṇḍavas, are exiled to the forest. The exact textual relationship between Valmiki's Rāmāyaṇa and the Rāmopākhyāna is not settled. The story as told in the Ramopākhyāna also differs in some details from the Rāmāyaṇa. This section, called the Rāmopākhyāna, is far shorter than the Rāmāyaṇa which, as you correctly note, is a different epic altogether. Then in what sense can the Ramayana be seen as "in" the Mahabharata? Is it retold within the Mahabharata, or has it sometimes been published as part of the Mahabharata, or what? (I would've guessed this might be Wikipedia talking nonsense again, but this is a fairly prominent claim, near the top of an article about a very well-known piece of literature, so surely it would've been spotted and corrected by now if it was mistaken.)Ī section of the Mahābhārata narrates the story of Rāma.
The same Wikipedia page quoted above even mentions them as "the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India". I know that the Bhagavad Gita is often treated as a separate text, not just an integral part of the Mahabharata, but the Ramayana, as far as I know, really is a different piece of Sanskrit epic poetry, separate from the Mahabharata. Among the principal works and stories in the Mahābhārata are the Bhagavad Gita, the story of Damayanti, the story of Savitri and Satyavan, the story of Kacha and Devyani, the story of Ṛṣyasringa and an abbreviated version of the Rāmāyaṇa, often considered as works in their own right.
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