ŚRĪ VĀLMĪKI RĀMĀYAṆA CANTO 3
CONTRIBUTORS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The contributors for this edition of Canto 3 of Śrī Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa are:
Śyāma-rasika dāsa: Production management, layout, visual content management, visual content editing, print management, infrastructural support, overall coordination. Balarāma Govinda dāsa: Financial support. Vraja Kṛṣṇa dāsa: Infrastructural support, distribution. Nārāyaṇa Padmanābha dāsa: Devanāgarī conversion, first proofreading. Śraddhā devī dāsī: Editing and proofreading. Rasapriyā Gopikā devī dāsī: Devanāgarī second proofreading, verse indexing, reference indexing, second proofreading. Kālacakra Kṛṣṇa dāsa: analytical review and feedback on core textual content. Rasikānanda dāsa (Novikov Viacheslav): Drawings, paintings, visual content management. Pāvana Gopa dāsa: Cover design. Nandalāla Kiśora dāsa: Print supervision, storage management, transportation. Kīrtivān Giridhara dāsa: Warehouse maintenance Venkatesh Prabhu: Online sales administration and legal compliance. Vidvān Gaurāṅga dāsa: Devanāgarī proofreading, transliteration, synonyms, translation, inline notes, footnotes, editing, second proofreading, visual content management, administrative supervision, responsibility for any residual error whatsoever.1
The following devotees provided infrastructural support: Padmanayana dāsa and Prema Gaurasundara dāsa at Mayapur Institute; Nandaputra dāsa, Raṅgarāja dāsa, Megha-śyāmalī devī dāsī, Giridhārī Gopīnātha dāsa, B Raja Satyananda, Gajendran and other devotees in ISKCON Śrīraṅgam; Sahasranāma dāsa and the devotees in Ramanathapuram; Dharmātmā Nimāi dāsa and Jaya Baladeva dāsa of ISKCON Māyāpur.
We are indebted to His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja for blessing Rūpa Raghunātha Vāṇī Publications with the instruction to publish appropriately annotated translations of selected scriptures and writings of the previous ācāryas, to His Holiness Bhakti Vikāsa Swami Mahāraja for continually goading us to offer the best possible service to Śrīla Prabhupāda and Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, and for arranging for infrastructural support, to His Holiness Romapāda Swami Mahārāja for encouraging us to work on this project while faithfully adhering to standard Vaiṣṇava-paramparā authorities, to His Holiness Indradyumna Swami Mahārāja for his kind appreciation and for urging us to expedite the work on this Canto, to His Holiness Bhakti-vighna-vināśa Narasiṁha Swami Mahārāja for his appreciation and encouragement, and to His Holiness Bhakti Vāsudeva Swami Mahārāja for his encouragement and advice.
Special thanks to Rādhākānta Gopāla dāsa and Dr. Kannan Venkatachalam for their selfless and pragmatic support.
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. An errata for the printed version of this edition can be found at http://www.ruparaghunathavani.com.