Rama Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Sikhism=== {{Main|Rama in Sikhism}} [[File:Sikh_woodcut_of_a_battle_scene_from_the_Ramayana,_Lahore_or_Amritsar,_about_1870.png|thumb|Sikh woodcut of a battle scene from the Ramayana, Lahore or Amritsar, about 1870]] Rama is mentioned as one of twenty four divine incarnations of [[Vishnu]] in the [[Chaubis Avtar]], a composition in ''[[Dasam Granth]]'' traditionally and historically attributed to [[Guru Gobind Singh]].<ref name=":0" />{{Refn|Ath Beesvan Ram Avtar Kathan or Ram Avtar is a Composition in the second sacred Granth of Sikhs i.e Dasam Granth, which was written by Guru Gobind Singh, at Anandpur Sahib. Guru Gobind Singh was not a worshiper of Ramchandra, as after describing the whole Avtar he cleared this fact that ਰਾਮ ਰਹੀਮ ਪਰਾਨ ਕਰਾਨ ਅਨੇਕ ਕਹੈਂ ਮਤਿ ਝਕ ਨ ਮਾਨਿਯੋ ॥. Ram Avtar is based on Ramayana, but a Sikh studies the spiritual aspects of this whole composition.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wpTXAAAAMAAJ&q=Nihang+sikhs+and+shri+ram|last=Singh|first=Govind|author-link=Guru Gobind Singh|title=Dasamgranth|publisher=Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers|isbn=978-81-215-1044-8|year=2005|access-date=6 March 2021|archive-date=31 January 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240131063211/https://books.google.com/books?id=wpTXAAAAMAAJ&q=Nihang+sikhs+and+shri+ram|url-status=live}}</ref>|name=rGts|group=lower-greek}} The discussion of Rama and Krishna avatars is the most extensive in this section of the secondary Sikh scripture.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite book |author=Doris R. Jakobsh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NBJPAQAAIAAJ |title=Sikhism and Women: History, Texts, and Experience |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-19-806002-4 |pages=47–48 |access-date=3 July 2018 |archive-date=31 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240131063328/https://books.google.com/books?id=NBJPAQAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> The name of Rama is mentioned more than 2,500 times in the [[Guru Granth Sahib]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Judge |first1=Paramjit S. |last2=Kaur |first2=Manjit |date=2010 |title=The Politics of Sikh Identity: Understanding Religious Exclusion |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23620888 |journal=Sociological Bulletin |volume=59 |issue=3 |pages=219 |doi=10.1177/0038022920100303 |issn=0038-0229 |jstor=23620888 |s2cid=152062554 |via=Book |access-date=6 March 2021 |archive-date=29 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210529013855/https://www.jstor.org/stable/23620888 |url-status=live }}</ref> and is considered as [[avatar]] along with the [[Krishna]].{{Refn||name=rGts|group=lower-greek}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page