A woman in this text sleeps for the entirety of her brother-in-law’s exile so that her husband could be awake the entire time instead. This text’s author was legendarily inspired to write it after the sage Narada had him chant the name of its dedicatee to turn away from his sinful life as the bandit Ratnakar. The king of the bears, Jambavan, reminds a figure in this text who was divinely fathered by a wind god that he has the strength to reach an enemy kingdom by jumping over an ocean. The title figure of this older of the two itihasas slays a ten-headed demon before returning home and inheriting his title as king of Ayodhya. For 10 points, name this Hindu epic in which Sita, the wife of the title blue-skinned deity, is kidnapped by Ravana. ■END■
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| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Chicago C | 16 | 10 |
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| Azura Gollamudi | Northwestern A | Northwestern B | 22 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Notre Dame A | 23 | 10 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas B | Texas A | 23 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley B | 24 | 10 |
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| Yaj Jhajhria | Washington A | British Columbia D | 41 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 51 | 10 |
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| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech A | 55 | 10 |
| Deepanshi Matai | Toronto C | McMaster C | 60 | 10 |
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| Ezra Schulman | Macalester A | St. Thomas | 64 | 10 |
| Amiya Zope | UTD B | UTD A | 64 | 10 |
| Braxton Davis | Missouri A | WashU A | 69 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Vanderbilt A | 70 | 10 |
| Sriram Susarla | British Columbia C | British Columbia A | 71 | 10 |
| Adithya Parat | McMaster B | Guelph A | 78 | -5 |
| Matteo Fronduti | Durham A | Sheffield A | 82 | -5 |
| Hiten Umarnani | Imperial C | Sheffield C | 82 | 10 |
| Swapneel Mandal | UAB A | Alabama B | 84 | 10 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Western Ontario | 85 | 10 |
| Ryan Sun | Berkeley D | Stanford C | 87 | 10 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | Toronto H | 88 | 10 |
| Aneesh Shrotriya | Purdue B | Illinois C | 88 | 10 |
| Monish Jampala | Georgia Tech C | Vanderbilt B | 88 | 10 |
| Snehan Saroch | Louisville A | Chicago D | 90 | 10 |
| Dexter Hine | Simon Fraser | Washington B | 90 | 10 |
| Jeremy Mau | Northwestern C | Arizona State B | 90 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE A | Imperial B | 90 | 10 |
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| Akshay Seetharam | Claremont Scripps | UCI | 92 | 10 |
| Skand Parvatikar | Arizona State A | McGill D | 92 | 10 |
| Jackson Crickard | Claremont Pitzer | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 96 | 10 |
| Zoe Wang | Carleton | Macalester B | 99 | -5 |
| Tobias Smerdon | Toronto K | Ottawa | 100 | 10 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Notre Dame B | 100 | 10 |
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| Athena Devashish | Minnesota C | Nebraska | 107 | 10 |
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| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Rose State | 114 | 10 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | UCF B | 115 | 10 |
| Anna Bocook | Louisville B | Notre Dame C | 115 | 10 |
| Charlie Lowman | Imperial A | Sheffield B | 118 | 10 |
| Paige Crawley | Oxford A | Southampton A | 119 | 10 |
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| Ian Saylor | Wisconsin | Iowa State | 124 | 10 |
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| Matthew Evans | UF B | FIU | 137 | 10 |
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| Reed Sexton | Michigan C | UIC | 137 | 10 |
| Arun Waran | Macalester B | Carleton | 137 | 10 |
| Owen Ashbrook | Iowa | Tulsa | 137 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Mississippi State A | 137 | 10 |
| Henry Wong Tok Shing | Cambridge C | Bristol B | 137 | 10 |