December 2012

AA Manavalan was awarded with the prestigious Saraswati Samman for his work, Irama Kathaiyum Iramayakalyum. This is a comparative study of epic Ramayana in 48 different languages. M Veerappa Moily, the Corporate Affairs and Power Minister presented him with a cheque of Rs 7.5 lakh, a memento and a citation plaque at a function organized by K K Birla Foundation. The characters, plot and individual insertions of the book deals with the changes that happened in the due course of migration. This book has tried to come up with the effect of Ramayana over the South East Asia, its language and culture. This book is a comparative study of Ramayana written in different languages over a certain period of time and some of the languages include Pali, Tibetan, Prakirt, Tamil, Japanese, Old Javanese, Assamese, Thai, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali, Marathi, Kannada, Sanskrit, Odisi, Hindi, Malay, Persian, Maranao, Burmese, Laotian and Kashmiri.

Saraswati Samman

The samman/award was instituted in the year 1991 by KK Birla Foundation and is a prestigious award in the field of literature.

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