Valmiki's Ramayana

Valmiki's Ramayana is believed to be the first poetic work written in Sanskrit consists of 24,000 verses organised into six sections:

The Bala Kanda
The Ayodhya Kanda
The Aranya Kanda
The Kishkindha Kanda
The Sundara Kanda
and the Yuddha Kanda.

It is said that Brahma assured Valmiki that as long as the mountains stand and the rivers flow, so the Ramayana shall be read by men. Valmiki's monumental work influenced other great poems on the same theme. The Ramayana has made a deep and abiding impact. Paintings depicting scenes from the Ramayana are found in temples all over India and in Indonesia and Kampuchea.

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