Bhakti and the Story of Rama

The Bhakti Ramayanas

So far, we have concentrated primarily on the Valmiki Ramayana. Let us move a few centuries after the composition of its initial nucleus by Valmiki to the beginning of the Common Era—when the Ramayana began to take on the form in which we know it today even as the emergence of bhakti led to a fundamental transformation in the story of Rama.