Rama

===''Adhyatma Ramayana''===
''Adhyatma Ramayana'' is a late medieval [[Sanskrit]] text extolling the spiritualism in the story of [[Ramayana]]. It is embedded in the latter portion of ''[[Brahmānda Purana]]'', and constitutes about a third of it.<ref name=jnfarquhar158>{{cite book|author=John Nicol Farquhar |title=An Outline of the Religious Literature of India |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.100309 |year=1920|publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.100309/page/n356 324]–325}}</ref> The text philosophically attempts to reconcile [[Bhakti]] in god Rama and [[Shaktism]] with [[Advaita Vedanta]], over 65 chapters and 4,500 verses.{{Sfn|Rocher|1986|pp=158–159 with footnotes}}<ref name="Tulasīdāsa1989p875">{{cite book|author=RC Prasad |title=Tulasīdāsa's Sriramacharitmanasa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BiYt00x5tcQC&pg=PA875 |year=1989|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=978-81-208-0443-2  |pages=xiv-xv, 875–876}}</ref>

The text represents Rama as the [[Brahman]] (metaphysical reality), mapping all attributes and aspects of Rama to abstract virtues and spiritual ideals.<ref name="Tulasīdāsa1989p875"/> ''Adhyatma Ramayana'' transposes ''Ramayana'' into symbolism of self study of one's own soul, with metaphors described in Advaita terminology.<ref name="Tulasīdāsa1989p875"/> It influenced the popular ''Ramcharitmanas'' by [[Tulsidas]],<ref name=jnfarquhar158/><ref name="Tulasīdāsa1989p875"/> and inspired the most popular version of [[Nepal]]i ''Ramayana'' by [[Bhanubhakta Acharya]].<ref>{{cite book|author=R. Barz|editor=Monika Horstmann|title=Rāmāyaṇa and Rāmāyaṇas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=40A6s8l1lqQC |year=1991|publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag|isbn=978-3-447-03116-5|pages=32–35}}</ref> This was also translated by [[Thunchath Ezhuthachan]] to [[Malayalam]], which lead the foundation of [[Malayalam literature]] itself.<ref>{{citation |last=Paniker |first=K. Ayyappa |date=2006 |orig-date=1977 |title=A Short History of Malayalam Literature |publisher=Information & Public Relations Department Kerala State |page=31 |url=https://archive.org/details/ASHORTHISTORYOFMALAYALAMLITERATURE/page/n29/mode/1up}}</ref><!-- ? {{Sfn|James|2002|p=72}} -->