TY - BOOK AU - Valmiki AU - Dutt,Manmatha Nath TI - The Rāmāyana, Volume 1. Bālakāndam and Ayodhyākāndam AV - PK PY - 2018/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Folklore -- India KW - Rama (Hindu deity) -- Fiction KW - Epic poetry, Sanskrit -- Translations into English KW - Valmiki -- Adaptations N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramayana; Release date is 2018-06-03; Produced by James Simmons; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Rāmāyana, Volume 1. Bālakāndam and Ayodhyākāndam" by Valmiki is a Sanskrit epic with its earliest portions composed between the 7th and 5th centuries BCE. This ancient Hindu text follows Prince Rama's fourteen-year exile from his kingdom of Ayodhya, accompanied by his wife Sita and brother Lakshmana. Their forest journey leads to Sita's kidnapping by Ravana, king of Lanka, setting in motion a conflict that will test virtue, loyalty, and duty before Rama's eventual return home. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57265 ER -