The Saraswati Samman,Irama Kathaiyum Iramayakalyum and A A Manavalan

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“Saraswati Samman”

It is an annual award given for extraordinary  works in any Indian language
listed in Schedule VIII of the Constitution of India.   The honor   was instituted in the year  1991 by KK Birla Foundation and is a  renowned award in the field of literature.   The award consists of a citation, a plaque and a cash prize of 7.5 lakhs .

News  realted to Saraswati Samman

Saraswati Samman  awarded to A A Manavalan for his comparative study on Ramayana

The esteemed Sarasati Samman  was conferred on A A  Manavalan  for his   work, Irama Kathaiyum Iramayakalyum .

The work Irama Kathaiyum Iramayakalyum  is a comparative study of epic Ramayana in 48 different languages .  The characters, plot and individual insertions of the book deals  ith the alterations that occurred in the due course of migration.This book tries to explain the effect of Ramayana over the South East Asia, its   language and culture. The comparative study of Ramayana is  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.