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Consider the following statement about Ravana from wikipedia:

Ravana is also depicted as the author of the Ravana Samhita, a book on Hindu astrology and book Arka Prakasham; book on Siddha medicine and treatment . Ravana possessed a thorough knowledge of Siddha and political science. He is said to have possessed the nectar of immortality, which was stored inside his belly, thanks to a celestial boon by Brahma.

It is clearly saying that Ravana wrote two books: Ravana Samhita, a book on Hindu astrology and Arka Prakasham, book on Siddha medicine and treatment.

Is it true that Ravana is author of those two books or any other books?

hanugm
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  • Well some people even say that the book Lal Kitab (which also deals with easy-to-do astrological remedies) too has some connection with him. – Rickross Oct 27 '18 at 05:04
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    Maybe my comment is not directly related to the Q, still just wish to share that 'Shiva Tandava' stotra has been written by Ravana. – Vineet Oct 27 '18 at 05:32
  • @Rickross no that's kaali kitab or ravana samhita – Rakesh Joshi Oct 27 '18 at 14:15
  • Both Lal Kitab and Kaali Kitab are written by Raavan, and is not Vedic but Tantric and has shortcuts of various problems. Vedic astrology is written by Sage Parashar, father of Veda Vyasa and speaker of Vishnu Purana –  Oct 28 '18 at 07:44
  • All Tantra comes from Shiva and Ravana was one of his biggest worshipper, as seen in "Shiva Tandava strotram" –  Oct 28 '18 at 07:47
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    @Father no laal kitab is a hoax. Its written by a person called roop chand joshi in Punjab. It's in urdu script. He was an atheist and he made this to ridicule the hindus. – Rakesh Joshi Oct 28 '18 at 12:24
  • @RakeshJoshi Lal Kitab is pretty popular among astrologers and Ravan Samhita among Tantrics. No one knows if Lal Kitab works or not, people are foolish superstitious anyways, its Kaliyuga :/ –  Oct 28 '18 at 13:25

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There is hearsay about texts written by him.

There is one ancient tantric text which directly claims authorship by rAvana is uddisha tantram.

So this is an important text in tantra literature.

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I don't think there was any writing system developed during Treta Yuga. Everything was communicated orally.

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  • Can you please elaborate along with referrences. The word "wrote" in the question does not mean literally writing on some thing like paper or leaves. I mean whether they are attributed to Ravana in any scripture. – hanugm Apr 14 '22 at 16:45