ABSTRACT
IN the Ramiiyana, Valmlki, the Indian Homer, is celebrating one of those half-real, half-legendary events which colour
the frontispiece of every people's history. He is inspired by one of the great traditions of conquest, and metamorphosed this outline into a picture of simple and vast conception, of powerful dramatic interest and of incomparable richness of tone, from which stand out in admirable design, those true, animated, ineffaceable types, which only genius can create after "Him Who has given forth the divine model.
