The Ramayana is an epic Indian poem telling of the divine prince Rama and his struggle to rescue his wife Sita from a demon king, Ravana. Involving almost 24,000 verses, this ancient text is divided into seven books. A manuscript of the story was prepared for the ruler of the kingdom of Mewar in Rajasthan, India, during the seventeenth century, and has been digitised by the British Library.
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