Sita Kalyanam as English Sonnets
Posted on 12 July 2023; 03:00 PM IST. Last Updated 14 July 2023; 03:45 PM IST.Summary: Bala kanda of Ramayan details Sita Kalyanam, and this magnificent story was sung as poems for ages, in almost all Indian languages. The following is an attempt to describe the same in English language as Shakespearean Sonnets, in trochaic pentameter, with rhymes arranged as “abab cdcd efef gg”.
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- Sonnet - 1 : Birth of Lord Ram
- Sonnet - 2 : Transformation of Lord Ram
- Sonnet - 3 : Journey to Mithila
- Sonnet - 4 : Garden of Mithila
- Sonnet - 5 : Marriage of Lord Ram
- Sonnet - 6 : Wedding Ceremony of Ram and Sita
- Sonnet - 7 : Siya goes to Ayodhya
References:
1) Saint Valmiki Ramayan
2) Sri Tulasidas Ramayan