Ramayan (Bal Kandam) Canto 1 Chapter 4. Sanskrit recitation
Channel: BHAKTAfilms 
Date: 03/01/2024

Ramayan Canto 1 Chapter 4.  
Ramayana, (Sanskrit: “Rama’s Journey”) shorter of the two great epic poems of India the other being the Mahabharata (“Great Epic of the Bharata Dynasty”). The Ramayana was composed in Sanskrit probably not before 300 BCE, by the poet Valmiki and in its present form consists of some 24,000 couplets divided into seven books.
1. The first book is Balakand, meaning the book of childhood.
2. The second book is Ayodhyakanda, meaning the book of Ayodhya.
3. The third book is Aranyakanda, meaning the book of the forests.
4. The fourth book is Kishkindhakanda, meaning the book of Kishkindha.
5. The fifth book is Sundarakanda, meaning the book beautiful.
6. The sixth book is Yuddhakanda, meaning the book of the war.
7. The seventh book is Uttarakanda, meaning the book of after events.
The poem describes the royal birth of the God Rama in the kingdom of Ayodhya (Oudh), his tutelage under the sage Vishvamitra, and his success in bending Shiva’s mighty bow at the bridegroom tournament of Sita, the daughter of King Janaka, thus winning her for his wife. After Rama is banished from his position as heir to the kingdom through a palace intrigue, he retreats to the forest with his wife and his favourite half brother, Lakshmana, to spend 14 years in exile. There Ravena, the demon-king of Lanka, carries off Sita to his capital while her two protectors are busy pursuing a golden deer sent to the forest to mislead them. Sita resolutely rejects Ravana’s attentions, and Rama and his brother set out to rescue her. After numerous adventures, they enter into alliance with Sugriva, king of the monkeys, and, with the assistance of the monkey-general Hanuman and Ravana’s own brother, Vibhishana, they attack Lanka. Rama slays Ravana and rescues Sita, who undergoes an ordeal by fire in order to clear herself of suspicions of infidelity. When they return to Ayodhya, however, Rama learns that the people still question the queen’s chastity, and he banishes her to the forest. There she meets the sage Valmiki (the reputed author of the Ramayana) and at his hermitage gives birth to Rama’s two sons. The family is reunited when the sons come of age, but Sita, after again protesting her innocence, plunges into the earth, her mother, who receives her and swallows her up.
There are different views about the time the Ramayana was written. All agree that the book is very old and was written before the Mahabharata


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