The Valmiki Ramayana

Preamble

We began our discussion of the story of Rama with an outline of the main events as given in the Sanskrit epic known as the Ramayana and attributed to the sage Valmiki. Valmiki’s Ramayana, as it is commonly called, is also the oldest and most influential literary telling of the story available to us. The text has come down to us orally and in the form of…