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  • Scion of Ikshvaku

  • Ram Chandra Series, Book 1
  • Written by: Amish
  • Narrated by: Sagar Arya
  • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (1,495 ratings)

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Scion of Ikshvaku

Written by: Amish
Narrated by: Sagar Arya
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Publisher's Summary

Ram Rajya. The Perfect Land. But perfection has a price. He paid that price.

3400 BCE. India.

Ayodhya is weakened by divisions. A terrible war has taken its toll. The damage runs deep. The demon King of Lanka, Raavan, does not impose his rule on the defeated. He instead imposes his trade. Money is sucked out of the empire. The Sapt Sindhu people descend into poverty, despondency and corruption. They cry for a leader to lead them out of the morass. Little do they appreciate that the leader is among them. One whom they know. A tortured and ostracised prince. A prince they tried to break. A prince called Ram.

He loves his country, even when his countrymen torment him. He stands alone for the law. His band of brothers, his Sita, and he against the darkness of chaos.

Will Ram rise above the taint that others heap on him? Will his love for Sita sustain him through his struggle? Will he defeat the demon Lord Raavan who destroyed his childhood? Will he fulfil the destiny of the Vishnu?

Begin an epic journey with Amish's latest: the Ram Chandra Series.

©2015 Amish Tripathi (P)2017 Audible, Inc.

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Interesting

The books as promised provides a new look to the story of Ramayana which we have been hearing from Cildhood.The events though have similarities to the original Ramayan but what stands out the context has been changed to provide a refreshing new vision to the story

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Average story with animated narration

The story line is average and as expected. It's the same genre as in shiva trilogy and there is nothing new to offer, felt the latter was better. In my opinion, Amish has to probably reinvent himself. And it's a brave attempt at a different style of narration but seemed to be animated at many occasions. The attempts to uplift the impact of the narration by changing the tone is so often counter productive. Overall an average story, an average setting with narration as the lowlight.

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  • JS
  • 28-03-19

Terrible narration

Terrible terrible narration, very bad voice acting. The reading is immature, childish and does not do justice to this genre.

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Extremely well told story

Extremely well told story. Baffles how Amish gets into so much detailing and research. Quite a spectacle.

Sagar does a good job of narration. Kept me glued

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Phenomenal.

I have been Amish's fan since Immortals of Meluha.
And this is another fascinating book. I have read this book, but the audible gave my exquisite imagination of Ram, Sita and Laxman vivid colors.
Amish has admirable good writing and imagination.

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must read

loved it, awesome delivery of thought and emotions, a new version of ram and his concepts, moreover a very thoughtful thinking to collect modern issues

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bad performance.

bad performance. lost interest after 5 mins. who ever the artist is , made this audio book bad.

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loved it

can't express in words the genius of amish tripathi.
bang on creation of ram chandra series.

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Awesome story narration

Extremely good narration & story. Everyone should listen these kind of stories not only old ones but also young one

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Mind blowing

Beautiful narration to a mythological epic

The way Amish has humanized Lords Ram, Sita, Lakshman, Hanuman is amazing!! Written in a gripping way - unputdownable! 😊
Cliffhanger ending!

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  • Anonymous User
  • 01-09-22

I didn’t like the narration

The story might have been more interesting if the narrator had been less dramatic . He is was too screechy and loud and dramatic for my liking

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  • Amit
  • 21-05-22

Wonderful

irresistible tale, re imagined, retold in mesmerizing way, can't keep it away once started

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  • JP
  • 21-02-21

Exceptional narrator.

The narrator made the story further interesting. His voice makes you imagine as if the scenes are occurring right in front of you.

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  • Mandar G
  • 02-11-20

Great story telling

The story telling is awesome, keeps you glued to the story, great character build up

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  • Jenika C Doctor
  • 06-08-20

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Sagar made it very interesting and exciting. Excellent job narrating the story. He got into each character and expressed / enacted all scenes perfectly.

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  • Amazon Customer
  • 02-03-20

Really great book

Loved it all the way, thoughts provoking..

Probably should read by all the people especially in India..

Jay Sri 4am..

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  • Amazon Customer
  • 30-12-19

Great Book!

It was really interesting to learn more even though it is a fiction version. Very well written.

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  • Jinesh
  • 31-07-19

Amazing story telling!

I did not think author would be able to do justice to great epic but I'm surprised.

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  • SRAVAN DHULIPALA
  • 25-07-19

changed the story to his liking and its boring

swayamvar episode was taken from mahabharata and wrote it to his liking. most of the story is modified to his liking. there were dates mentioned in the book like 7032 BC and places like Egypt, episodes like that of Dhenuka and I believe he didnt care of the credibility of the information. things that have happened already needs a thorough research before putting them on to paper. utterly ridiculous to write something in the name of creativity.

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  • SV
  • 11-07-19

Excellent!!

It’s an exquisite book with detailed description of every action taken place. Highly recommended to give it a listen!!

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  • Pragash
  • 11-11-17

Excellent story writing

Poor performance on audible(specially the moods and yelling irritates).
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Apart from the issue with audio performance, the story was brilliant and written to the logic. It would have being great to understand the story from raavan side as well.

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  • Anonymous User
  • 27-11-21

must read

outstanding, mesmerizing. loved it thoroughly. unorthodox picturization of characters but the author has done an amazing job. full marks to the narrator for bringing the script to life

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  • Ash
  • 21-06-19

Beautiful enactment of 3000 year old script in modern language

Two reasons to read this book.
Fact one that original was written 3000 years ago is a reason enough.
Secondly that original scripture refers to another Vedic scripture predating this one by another 3000 years, shows how unlearned we are today.

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  • loyalvalue
  • 26-04-18

wonderful book

loved it. a wonderful audiobook. amish has done a great job. God bless you... thanks...

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  • Gurbir Gill
  • 16-11-17

awesome

i loved it. More books like this please. looking forward to the next parts. I am sure they will be as amazing as this one.