Sanskrit is an ancient Indianlanguage

specific events or stories aretold within the Sargas

Kaanda refers to the stem of sugar cane

Kaanda can also refer to aparticular story or event while astory is read

Tulsidas Ramayana is the mostpopular version

Goswami Tulsidas rewrote the TulsidasRamayana in 1574 and focused more on thefact that Rama was an incarnation of Vishnu

Kamban Ramayana is anotherpopular version but mostly inTamil Nadu

some parts of the story wererewritten to better show the ideas ofTamil

Thailand

Indonesia

Rama and Lakshmana, as wellas their siblings are born

Rama strings the bow of KingJanaka of Videha

the king gives his daughterSita to Rama

Ramas father gets old

wants to make Rama king

Ramas father's mistress reminds him of herone wish that must be granted for giving himchildren

she banishes Rama for fourteen yearsand makes her son Bharata heir to thethrone

Sita and Lakshmana go with him

Their father dies and Bharata issupposed to be king but says it isRamas throne

Rama partakes in manybattles with demons

Ravana is told by his sister ofSita's beauty

kidnaps Sita

Rama meets the monkeys

they know that Sita is in Lanka

Hanuman flew across the ocean

then made himself a cat andcrept around the town

they build a bridge to Lanka

ocean god helps them getacross the ocean

many battles and Hanuman finds herbsthat cure Rama and Lakshmana at once

Rama kills Ravana

Rama gets Sita back but says he cannot bewith her because she lived in another manshouse

Sita goes into the fire to proveshe did nothing wrong

Rama becomes king

Rama's people are mad that hetook Sita back

Lakshmana takes Sita to theGanges and deserts her

she has twins, Kusha and Lava

Rama meets his sons when theyrecite Ramayana to him at afestival

Rama makes Sita vow thatthese are his sons

the earth swallows her

Rama gives his power to his sonsand goes to heaven to be withSita