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to have studied both Valmiki's Ramayanam and Kamban's Ramayanam emphatically state that Valmiki treats Rama only as a man while Kamban treats Rama as incarnation of Vishnu. This is wholly incorrect because even Valmiki treats Rama only as an incarnation of Vishnu and Kamban follows the same and does not make any departure in this aspect. The only difference, if at all, is that Kamban himself refers to Rama as the incarnation and makes other characters also to refer to him as an incarnation, in more places than Valmiki; yet he himself very carefully and scrupulously makes Rama live and act as human being throughout. The author also uses words which are unworthy of being used in a literary criticism. According to the author, Valmiki refers to Ravana abducting Sita by physically taking her which was in accordance with Valmiki treating Rama and Sita as ordinary human beings while Kamban describes the same episode as Ravana carrying away Sita along with the hut in which she was, without touching her. It is not merely incorrect to state that these two different versions of the manner of abduction of Sita by Ravana flow from the different wrongly stated basic concepts; but also the language used by the author in this behalf is extremely unfortunate, if not wholly detestable. Describing the statement of Valmiki the author states, vambu seidhullar. It is not clear in what sense the author has used this expression. Similarly referring to the narration of this episode by Kamban the author - states that Kamban has Thamizh Kattravarkalai Ematriyullar. Here again it is not clear what exactly the author means because
