[Advaita-l] Adhyatma Ramayana - Pre 16th Century CE

[V Subrahmanian]

In the Ramayana tatparya sara sangraha stotram Sri Appayya Dikshitar cites
a few verses from the Adhyatma Ramayana, by naming the text.

Appayya Dikshitar's timeline is:  1520–1593 CE.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhyatma_Ramayana

*Adhyatma Ramayana* (Devanāgarī
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devan%C4%81gar%C4%AB>: अध्यात्म रामायण, IAST
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Alphabet_of_Sanskrit_Transliteration>
: *Adhyātma Rāmāyaṇa*, lit. 'Spiritual Ramayana') is a 13th- to
15th-century Sanskrit <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit> text that
allegorically interprets the story of Hindu epic *Ramayana
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramayana>* in the Advaita Vedanta
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advaita_Vedanta> framework.[1]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhyatma_Ramayana#cite_note-FOOTNOTERocher1986157%E2%80%93159-1>
[2]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhyatma_Ramayana#cite_note-Lamb2012p28-2>[3]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhyatma_Ramayana#cite_note-Richman2008p17-3> It
is embedded in the latter portion of *Brahmānda Purana
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahm%C4%81nda_Purana>,* and the author is
considered to be Vyasa <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyasa>.[4]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhyatma_Ramayana#cite_note-4> The Hindu
tradition also attributes the text to the Bhakti movement saint Ramananda
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramananda>.[5]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhyatma_Ramayana#cite_note-FOOTNOTERocher1986158-159_with_footnotes,_'''Quote:'''_%22Among_the_texts_considered_to_be_connected_with_the_''Brahmanda'',_the_''Adhyatma-ramayana''_is_undoubtedly_the_most_important_one%22-5>


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