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How a tradition frames it · 2 tellings

Kamban's Rama stands above the three

In the Tamil Ramavataram Rama is divine from the start, yet the poem sets him above Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva rather than inside the triad as an avatar.

Rama, Ravana, Vishnu

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