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Vālmīki's Sanskrit and Kamban's Tamil are shown as found in their sources (see Sources and licences). The Tamil meanings, the Tamil explanations and the English working translations were written for Rāmamayam to help you read; they are not published translations or traditional commentaries, they may contain mistakes, and a ? marks places where the reading is uncertain. A speaker is named only where we checked the Sanskrit by hand; elsewhere no speaker is shown.

Rāmamayam is not a religious authority and takes no side between traditions. Nothing in it is professional advice, medical, legal or otherwise.

Answers in Ask are generated, from the app's own data or by a language model you connect, and they can be wrong. Check them against the text, which every answer cites. If you connect a language model, you are responsible for your key and for following that provider's terms.

Rāmamayam cannot help in an emergency. If you are thinking of harming yourself, please contact a helpline now: in India, Tele-MANAS on 14416 (free, any hour, in Tamil too), or your local emergency number.

Please don't try to overload or break the service, get around its limits, or use it to send harmful content to a language model. We may limit or block traffic that does.

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Rāmamayam is provided as it is, without warranty of any kind. To the extent the law allows, Cultivaite Futures Inc. is not liable for any loss arising from its use. We may change or stop the service, and these terms; the date at the top shows the current version. Contact: info@cultivaitefutures.org.