Kamba Ramayana is the Tamil language
version of the Ramayana, the earlier of the two great Hindu epics.
Kamban, a poet from southern India, wrote the Kamba Ramayana
in the ninth century.
Kamban did not just transcribe Valmiki's Sanskrit epic, but
altered and added to it as he saw appropriate, as he did with all vernacular
interpretations of the Ramayana.
His heroic depiction of Ravana, the demon-king, who is the
villain in the original narrative, is of particular significance.
Given Kamban's origins in southern India, this move might
represent emotions of regional pride.
The island of Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean, southeast of
the Indian subcontinent, is commonly regarded as Ravana's kingdom of Lanka.
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