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At the dawn of civilization India had evolved herself in a web of history, spirituality and religion around form and formless, self and self-less, and theism, which ultimately got textured into its two great epics-the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Of the two, the Ramayana, widely accepted as one of the oldest epics placed in a particular time and space, remains as a classic saga of all time that blends past with the present. With an ascention to divinity this epic finds itself as the vertribal column of Indian mind frame, by being not merely a tale of a hero regarded as the best among men. Through ages it has proved itself as the fundamental document relating to political management, wordly wisdom, human values, domestic virtue, spiritual knowledge and theosophy in its highest form. To a person, eager to grasp the very essence of Indian cultural heritage, the `Samsad Companion to the Ramayana' unfolds a classical world amalgated with mythical exuberance. A curious reader should like to use this as a source-book for research and studies to identify a galaxy of different beings and locate any reference to the Ramayana in its multiple dimensions.