Sources and licences

• Sanskrit text and IAST (Southern recension): Valmiki_Ramayan_Dataset, compiled from Ashutosh-Vijay/Valmiki_Ramayan_Dataset. The Sanskrit text is ancient and in the public domain. The datasets' own English is not used.
• Working English translation of each śloka: written for Rāmamayam from the Sanskrit and checked against the Tamil meanings, under review, [?] where the reading is uncertain; not a published translation. CC BY-SA 4.0.
• Tamil meanings (பொருள்) of each śloka: written for Rāmamayam, under review. CC BY-SA 4.0.
• M. N. Dutt's English, The Ramayana (Calcutta, 1891–94), prose for each sarga, behind a link in Read, from the scan on archive.org. Public domain.

• Tamil text, Sundara Kāṇḍam: Tamil Wikisource, by its contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0. Each paṭalam links its page and the revision used. Later-added verses (மிகைப் பாடல்கள்) are left out; numbering follows Project Madurai's edition.
• ISO 15919 transliteration: generated from that text. CC BY-SA 4.0.
• Tamil explanations (விளக்கம்) and English working translations: written for Rāmamayam, under review; not a traditional உரை or a published translation. CC BY-SA 4.0.

38 Tanjore-style paintings: 24 for the events of the Sundara Kāṇḍa, one each, shown in Read when one poet is read alone, Vālmīki or Kamban, at the head of that poet's telling; on the home page, 1 hero painting (Rāma with Vālmīki and Kamban), 7 scenes, and 6 covers for the kāṇḍas still to come. They were generated with OpenAI's GPT Image 2 from prompts written by Cultivaite Futures; they are made in the manner of Tanjore painting, not by a Tanjore painter. © 2026 Cultivaite Futures Inc., CC BY-SA 4.0.

Audio: synthetic voices (ElevenLabs), not human recitation; four verses so far (Vālmīki 5.1.1 and 5.15.26, Kamban 5.1.1 and 5.4.60), played from the button beside each verse.

Videos are on the Cultivaite Futures YouTube channel, @CultivaiteFuturesOrg. In Read they play from youtube-nocookie.com, and only after you press play; so far one event has them (Hanumān leaps the ocean, in Tamil and in English: a video and a short in each).

Event spine and alignment, sarga titles and summaries, people, places, ideas, states of mind and situations, the genealogy, chains, journeys and the Tamil interface text were made for Rāmamayam and are part of its code (MIT licence). Where they draw on a poet's text, they cite it.

• Rāmamayam is a fork of GitaViśva by Himanshu Mohanty (MIT licence). © 2026 Himanshu Mohanty, and © 2026 Cultivaite Futures Inc. for the Rāmamayam modifications.
• Fonts, served from this site: Inter, Source Serif 4, Tiro Devanagari Sanskrit, Noto Sans Tamil and Noto Serif Tamil, all under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.