Publisher's Preface Introduction List of Characters PART ONE: The Prince of Ayodhya Born as a Man The Thorn in the World's Side Taste This Waster The Two Wishes Lord of the Wild Trees Bharata Returns The Sandals PART TWO: Sita's Rescue Dandaka Forest The Golden Deer Hanuman! The Search Hanuman's Jump Here I Am The New Moon The Building of the Bridge The Siege of Lanka The Invisible Warrior Ravana and Time PART THREE: The Dharma Wheel Here's Love! The Wonderful Return In What Dream? Farewell again, My Lady and My King
William Buck died in 1970 at the age of 37 after more than 15 years of work on the Ramayana, Mahabharata, and the unfinished Harivamsa. Of the two finished books, he wrote, "My method in writing both Mahabharata and Ramayana was to begin with a literal translation from which to extract the story, and then to tell that story in an interesting way that would preserve the spirit and flavor of the original."
"To say the "Ramayana is one of the great epics of India may be a misleading understatement, for it is of far greater importance to India than the Greek epics are to Western thought. The "Ramayana and the "Mahabharata make up the framework of the Hindu religious, cultural, and social imagination. . . . Buck has succeeded better than anyone else in conveying the spirit of the original."--"Choice
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