AA Manavalan on 19 September 2012 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.
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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