🪷 Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa · The Ādi-Kāvya

7 Kāṇḍas · 645 contiguous sargas · 23,334 address-consistent rows · source-pinned Sanskrit digital witness

🪷 Read the Seven Kāṇḍas

Choose a Kāṇḍa to browse its sargas and available Sanskrit ślokas. Bāla-Kāṇḍa contains the Rāma-janma passage; Sundara-Kāṇḍa follows Hanumān's journey to Laṅkā and Sītā-darśana.

⭐Kāṇḍa 1 · बालकाण्ड
Bāla-Kāṇḍa · The Book of Childhood
Rāma's janma passage in Sarga 18 · Viśvāmitra's yajña-protection · Sītā-svayaṁvara at Mithilā · the four brothers as ONE Viṣṇu in 4-fold
2,267 ślokas · 77 sargas
Kāṇḍa 2 · अयोध्याकाण्ड
Ayodhyā-Kāṇḍa · The Book of Ayodhyā
Rāma's coronation aborted by Kaikeyī · 14-year vanavāsa begins · Daśaratha's death from grief · Bharata's pādukā-rāj at Nandigrāma · the maryādā-puruṣottama discipline activated
4,307 ślokas · 119 sargas
Kāṇḍa 3 · अरण्यकाण्ड
Araṇya-Kāṇḍa · The Book of the Forest
Daṇḍakāraṇya exile · the rishis' āśramas protected · Śūrpaṇakhā's ill-fated visit · Khara-Dūṣaṇa-Triśiras destroyed · Sītā-haraṇa by Rāvaṇa via Mārīca's golden-deer māyā
2,447 ślokas · 75 sargas
Kāṇḍa 4 · किष्किन्धाकाण्ड
Kiṣkindhā-Kāṇḍa · The Book of Kiṣkindhā
Hanumān-darśana at Mount Ṛśyamūka · Sugrīva-mitratā · Vāli-vadha · the vānara-sena assembled for the Sītā-search · the four directions sent forth
2,462 ślokas · 67 sargas
Kāṇḍa 5 · सुन्दरकाण्ड
Sundara-Kāṇḍa · The Book of Beauty
Hanumān's ocean-crossing to Laṅkā · Sītā-darśana at the Aśoka-vāṭikā · Rāma's ring delivered · Laṅkā-dahana · the most-recited kāṇḍa in bhakti-tradition · pure Rāma-nāma-mahimā
2,810 ślokas · 68 sargas
Kāṇḍa 6 · युद्धकाण्ड
Yuddha-Kāṇḍa · The Book of War
Setu-bandha to Laṅkā via Nala-Nīla's engineering · the great war · Kumbhakarṇa-Indrajit-Rāvaṇa fall sequentially · agni-parīkṣā · puṣpaka-yāna return · Rāma's coronation at Ayodhyā · Rāmarājya begins
5,578 ślokas · 128 sargas
Kāṇḍa 7 · उत्तरकाण्ड
Uttara-Kāṇḍa · The Book of the Aftermath
Rāvaṇa's pūrva-janma narrated · Rāmarājya's 11,000-year dharma-state · Sītā's second vanavāsa at Vālmīki's āśrama · Lava-Kuśa's upbringing · Rāma's aśvamedha · the mahā-prasthāna into Sarayū · Brahma-loka return
3,463 ślokas · 111 sargas
रामो विग्रहवान् धर्मः।
"Rāma IS dharma in embodied form." — Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.37.13 · Mārīca's confession to Rāvaṇa about whom he is about to challenge
🪷 Rāma = Krishna = Paramātmā · The Non-Dual Singularity
The Paramātmā named Krishna in Dvāpara is recognized devotionally as the same Bhagavān named Rāma in Tretā. Vālmīki 1.18.11-15 preserves the four-brother janma passage. The text and received tradition are presented without converting selected astronomical markers into a settled civil chronology.
→ Enter /rama · The Non-Dual Singularity Declarationor visit Bāla-Kāṇḍa Sarga 18 for the janma-spec verses

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🪷 Notable Sections within the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa

🪷 The Rāma-narrative also lives inside Krishna's epic. Vyāsa Maharṣi — the same ṛṣi through whom the Bhagavad-Gītā emerged in Krishna's voice — included the complete Rāma-story within the Mahābhārata. Vana-Parva chapters 258-275 form the Rāmopākhyāna — 18 chapters · 704 verses · Mārkaṇḍeya narrating the entire Rāmāyaṇa to Yudhiṣṭhira. Vyāsa's own act of recognition: the One who is Krishna there is the One who was Rāma here.

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Sources and Connected Readings

Continue from the seven-Kāṇḍa reading map and its edition disclosure to the Rāma-janma passage, the Rāma source boundary, the Mānas bhakti voice, and related Itihāsa and Gītā readings.

/valmiki-ramayanasource-pinned seven-kāṇḍa Sanskrit reading index with disclosed digital-witness lineageBāla 1.18Rāma-janma textual passageVālmīki 1.18.8first indexed Rāma-janma śloka routeVālmīki 1.18.15closing indexed janma verse/ramadevotional and source-led Rāma doorway/festival/rama-navamiCaitra Śukla Navamī observance/ramcharitamanasTulsidās bhakti voice of Rāma-līlāRāmopākhyānaRāma-kathā inside the Mahābhārata/computational-moatexplicit model and evidence boundary

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