![]() Narayan (Penguin Books) in India, just as popular is the version, also in prose but longer, by C. ![]() One popular, but extremely condensed, version - based on the Tamil of Kamban - is by R. There are numerous translations of the Ramayana available in English. The narrative is broken up into seven books. It is much longer than both the Iliad and the Odyssey. The Valmiki or Sanskrit Ramayana contains nearly 50,000 lines of verse. The symbolism of the story has been interpreted a number of ways but is widely seen as a story of good overcoming evil, with dharma or duty. It is essentially a story of love and banishment. Composed around the the same time as the Mahabharata, the Ramayana is written in 24,000 couplets. The Ramayana (pronounced approximately as Raa-MEYE-a-na) is somewhat reminiscent of the Odyssey while the Mahabharata is somewhat reminiscent of the Iliad.
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