Rare Book Society of India A RARE COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED AND ILLUMINATED RAMAYANA MANUSCRIPT, JAMMU, PUNJAB HILLS, INDIA, CIRCA 1820 Ravana killing Jatayu while the monkeys watch from below as Ravana then carries Sita off the Lanka. The Ramayana, Story of Rama, attributed to the sage Valmiki, consists of seven books and twenty-four thousand verses. Themes from the Ramayana were popular with Pahari patrons from the seventeenth through to the mid- nineteenth century.