Ramayan book: The Valmiki Ramayana remains a vibrant and

The Valmiki Ramayana remains a vibrant and enduring presence in the lives of the Indian people. This timeless epic narrates the tale of the noble prince Rama and his heroic quest to defeat the demon king Ravana. The Ramayana is the shorter of the two great epic poems of India, the other being the Mahabharata. The Ramayana was composed in Sanskrit, probably not before 300 BCE, by the poet Valmiki, and in its present form, it consists of some 24,000 couplets divided into seven books . The Ramayana (/ rɑːˈmɑːjənə /; [1][2] Sanskrit: रामायणम्, romanized: Rāmāyaṇam[3]), also known as Valmiki Ramayana , as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics of Hinduism known as the Itihasas, the other being the Mahabharata. [4] The epic narrates the life of Rama, the seventh avatar of the Hindu deity Vishnu, who is a prince of Ayodhya in the kingdom of Kosala ... Shop for Bestsellers, New-releases & More. Best Prices on Millions of Titles.