Ramayana is a Sanskrit epic ithihasa, that happened like this, story of Indian Subcontinent. It finely reflects the Indian values to fullest extent. Naturally, most revered across the country since thousands of years. This story of the Rama & Sita was narrated by a contemporary writer called Valmiki Maharshi. Aptly, he is considered as the adi-kavi, the first poet ever existed. And the Ramayana as the adi-kavyam, the first poetry. It was written in poetic scale called slokas counting to 24000. The beauty and power of the Ramayana was, through generations, stayed as it is with negligible changes, to its text or form. The narration is so perfect, authentic with full of poetic beauty. Hence, it is called Srimadramayana.
This being so, there are thousands of derivatives, translations etc in all most all the languages hundreds of times happened, specifically in Indic Languages. So many of such Ramayana stood...