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The Great Epics

The Oldest Ramayana Outside India

It was written in Java in the ninth century, and it is not based on Valmiki. It is based on one of the hardest poems in the Sanskrit tongue.

While the Prambanan temples were going up in Central Java, someone there wrote a Ramayana in Old Javanese.

It is one of the oldest Ramayanas that exists outside India at all.

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