Konkani Language and Cultural Foundation in association with All India Konkani Parishad will organize a two-day national seminar on Konkani Ramayanas at World Konkani Centre in Mangalore from October 2. Union law minister M Veerappa Moily, who has to his credit `Ramayana Mahaanveshanam', a epic poetry in Kannada will inaugurate the seminar. Uday Bembhre, Konkani scholar, will deliver the keynote address.
Mattur Krishnamoorthy, director, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan and Indologist, will be the chief guest at the valedictory function on October 3. In Konkani, Ramayana narration is found both in verse and prose. The story has been told in full or part in folksongs of the Kudubis and ritualistic forms like 'Godde Ramayana' of Kochi, 'Sita Suddi' and 'Sita Kalyan' of Northern Kerala/South Canara and the Ramayan Ranmale of Cancon.
Some other texts of Ramayana too are available in written form in Konkani `Ramayanachyo Kannyo', ascribed to Krishnadas Shama is a 16th century prose. During the 1930s, late Kamalammal wrote the 'Raghuramayana' in Ovi style verse. There have also been adapted versions by late Narahari Vittal Prabhu of Gokarn and recently, the translation of Ramacharitmanas by K Ananta Bhat of Kochi.
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