RamayanaShabari
Shabari: who Shabari is in the Ramayana and the role in the story, in plain words.
The old tribal woman who waited for years in her hermitage for Rama and who offered him fruits she had first tasted to be sure they were sweet. Her devotion is a favourite in the Ramcharitmanas.
See the story of the whole epic in seven books and the other characters.
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A retelling in our own words of a story that is told in many different ways across India and Asia. Tellers differ on many episodes; where it matters we say so. It is not a scholarly translation.