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Shri Ram Vijaya is a popular devotional literature composed by Shridhar Swami Nazarekar (1658-1729) in
Marathi Marathi may refer to: *Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India **Marathi people (Uttar Pradesh), the Marathi people in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh *Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Mar ...
. It literally means 'Victory to Rama, an incarnation of Vishnu'.


Introduction

The "Shri Ramavijaya" is divided into 40 chapters("adhyaya" in Marathi) and is composed of 9147 couplets ("ovis" in Marathi). In 1891, the "Shri Ramvijaya" was retold in the English language and published by Dubhashi&Co, Bombay. Until the early 20th century, it was common to recite the Ramvijaya in a gathering of women in middle class Marathi speaking families.{{cite book, author1=Mandakranta Bose, title=The Ramayana Revisited, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Ar2Qfr-UeQC&pg=PA262, date=30 September 2004, publisher=Oxford University Press, USA, isbn=978-0-19-516832-7, pages=262–


References

Hindu texts Marathi-language literature Cultural history of India