There are so many different Ramayanas starting from that of
Valmiki – each beautiful in its own way, sometimes an expression of human bias,
but more often to find the perfect Bhagvan Ram. As the master of simplicity, Tulsidas says – Jaaki
rahi bhavna jaisi, prabhu murati dekhi tin taisi. Finding the perfection in
Ram is to find the perfection in (wo)man.
It will be so wonderful to align all these Ramayanas,
that of a Valmiki, a Kamban, a Tulsi, the Adhyatma Ramayana and some 400 more…
I would want to be able to read all of these versions simultaneously; to know
by a click of the button, what Bhagvan Ram said, when Dasratha/Kaikeyi first
asked him to leave for the forest – did he blink an eyelid, and in which
version? Or how did Bhagvan Ram explain the killing of Bali from hiding or when
did first the incident of Hanumanjee opening his chest to show Sita-Ram appear.
I will learn immensely from it and also enjoy – rasika of Ram, not Krishna!
In my mind this can be done by doing good natural language
processing on the many Indian languages (one will have to see how to take care
of ‘samaas’ and ‘sandhi’ of Sanskrit). Alignment algorithms are a plenty
starting with dynamic programming with the more sophisticated ones in
bioinformatics. A nice web platform can make it super easy to navigate through
these many Ramayanas all aligned to each other.
Pros: Trace the history of Ramayana, Fun machine learning
and visualization project
Cons: It is just for fun!
To reflect: Why has it not been done already!
Check out Ramayana for the 4 year old ... need to align this too!
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