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Sri Valmiki Ramayana
Ayodhya-kanda
CANTO 2: AYODHYA

CONTRIBUTORS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The contributors for this edition of Canto 2 are:

Śyāma-rasika dāsa: Production management, layout, visual content management, visual content editing, print management, infrastructural support, overall coordination with unflinching conviction that if we intelligently work hard to fulfil Śrīla Prabhupāda’s desires and instructions, Lord Kṛṣṇa will provide everything and everyone required to do so successfully.

Balarāma Govinda dāsa: Financial support.

Vraja Kṛṣṇa dāsa: Infrastructural support, distribution.

Rasapriyā Gopikā devī dāsī: Devanāgarī conversion, transliteration, verse indexing, reference indexing, first proof-reading, infrastructural support for translation and rendition.

Rāghava Rāmacandra dāsa: Devanāgarī conversion.

Nārāyaṇa Padmanābha dāsa: Devanāgarī conversion. 

Rasikānanda dāsa (Novikov Viacheslav): Drawing, painting, visual content management.

Pāvana Gopa dāsa: Cover design.

Gopījana Govinda dāsa, Īśvara Viśvambhara dāsa: Infrastructural support.

Aśoka Govinda dāsa, Raṅgarāja dāsa and other devotees of ISKCON Śrīraṅgam: Infrastructural support.

Kālacakra Kṛṣṇa dāsa: First proof-reading, analytical review and feedback on core textual content.

Nandalāla Kiśora dāsa: Print supervision, storage management, transportation.

Venkatesh Prabhu: Online sales administration, legal compliance.

Parama Sundara dāsa: Synonyms and critical review of translation (for Chapters 53 to 72 and 89 to 119).

Vidvān Gaurāṅga dāsa: Devanāgarī conversion and correction, transliteration, canto summary, chapter summaries, synonyms (for the remaining chapters), translation, inline notes, footnotes, Sanskrit-English equivalents, editing, second proofreading, visual content management, administrative supervision, responsibility for any residual error whatsoever. 

They are indebted to

His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja for being a continual source of inspiration to publish appropriately annotated translations of the scriptures and the writings of the previous ācāryas relevant to the needs of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement,

His Holiness Lokanāth Swami Mahārāja for instructing them to always be busy in devotional service to the Supreme Lord and continue working on the Rāmāyaṇa,

His Holiness Bhakti Vikāsa Swami Mahārāja for encouraging them to properly work on this, pointing out some errors and helping in many other ways.

Special thanks to

Acintya Caitanya dāsa and Rādhikā-jīvana dāsa for their miscellaneous advice.

Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International for permitting us to quote from Śrīla Prabhupāda's books. 
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  • Home
  • Ramayana
    • About our edition
    • Canto 1: Boyhood (Bala-kanda) >
      • Contributors
      • Sample content
    • Canto 2: Ayodhya (Ayodhya-kanda) >
      • Contributors
      • Sample content
    • Canto 3: Forest (Aranya-kanda) >
      • Contributors
      • Sample content
    • Canto 4: Kiskindha (Kiskindha-kanda) >
      • Contributors
      • Sample content
    • Errata
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