The contributors for this edition of Canto 2 of Śrī Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa are:
Śyāma-rasika dāsa: Production management, layout, visual content management, visual content editing, print management, infrastructural support, overall coordination with unflinching conviction that if we intelligently work hard to fulfil Śrīla Prabhupāda’s desires and instructions, Lord Kṛṣṇa will provide everything and everyone required to do so successfully. Balarāma Govinda dāsa: Financial support. Vraja Kṛṣṇa dāsa: Infrastructural support, distribution. Rasapriyā Gopikā devī dāsī: Devanāgarī conversion, transliteration, verse indexing, reference indexing, first proof-reading, infrastructural support for translation and rendition. Rāghava Rāmacandra dāsa: Devanāgarī conversion. Nārāyaṇa Padmanābha dāsa: Devanāgarī conversion. Rasikānanda dāsa (Novikov Viacheslav): Drawing, painting, visual content management. Pāvana Gopa dāsa: Cover design. Gopījana Govinda dāsa, Īśvara Viśvambhara dāsa: Infrastructural support. Aśoka Govinda dāsa, Raṅgarāja dāsa and other devotees of ISKCON Śrīraṅgam: Infrastructural support. Kālacakra Kṛṣṇa dāsa: First proof-reading, analytical review and feedback on core textual content. Nandalāla Kiśora dāsa: Print supervision, storage management, transportation. Venkatesh Prabhu: Online sales administration, legal compliance. Parama Sundara dāsa: Synonyms, critical review of translation (Volumes 3 to 5). Vidvān Gaurāṅga dāsa: Devanāgarī conversion and correction, transliteration, synonyms (for Volumes 1 and 2), translation, inline notes, footnotes, Sanskrit-English equivalents, editing, second proofreading, visual content management, administrative supervision, responsibility for any residual error whatsoever.1
We are indebted to His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja for being a continual source of inspiration to publish appropriately annotated translations of the scriptures and writings of the previous ācāryas relevant to the needs of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, to His Holiness Lokanātha Swami Mahārāja for instructing us to always be busy in devotional service to the Supreme Lord and continue working on the Rāmāyaṇa, and to His Holiness Bhakti Vikāsa Swami Mahārāja for encouraging us to properly work on this, pointing out some errors and helping many other ways.2
Special thanks to Acintya Caitanya dāsa and Rādhikā-jīvana dāsa for their miscellaneous advice.
1. We request our readers to kindly notify us of all errors they detect in this edition by emailing ruparaghunathavani@gmail.com. The errors will be removed in future editions of this publication.
2. An errata for the printed version of this edition can be found at http://www.ruparaghunathavani.com.