However, not deeming it safe to venture out again, I sat down on the sill of my mother's door to read the dog-eared Ramayana, with a marbled paper cover, which belonged to her old aunt.

I had read in the Ramayana of the tribulations of Sita for having left the ring drawn by Lakshman, so it was not possible for me to be sceptical of its potency.

Ramanujan's "Three Hundred Ramayanas, " is considered by Indologists to be a classic study of Hindu diversity and a discussion of the hundreds of different tellings of the epic story of Rama and Sita.

The Panji Story is one of the three most popular and influential classical works in Indonesia, Malaysia and the other Southeast countries. The other two are the Indian epics: Ramayana and Mahabharata.

Together with the second major epic, the Ramayana, it is an important source of information about the evolution of Hinduism.