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What Asian and European travellers wrote about Lord Ram for nearly 1,800 years
Arun Anand
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New Delhi: The dust has now settled on disputes over the existence and birth of Lord Ram, with his temple being constructed in Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya, after 500 years of struggle by Hindus and the 2019 Supreme Court decision after a protracted legal battle in courts.
On the occasion of Ram Navami, here’s a look at the writings by foreign travellers on the Hindu god and his influence over the last two millennia.
Early works on and around Ram
As early as 251 AD, Buddhist monk K’ang-seng-hui rendered the Jataka form of the Ramayana, the ancient Hindu epic on Ram, into Chinese, according to ....

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