Brief Introduction

Srimad Valmiki Ramayana is an epic poem of Asia which narrates the journey of Virtue to annihilate vice. Sri  Rama is the name of king and aayana His journey. The book ramatana is the base of Indian culture and moral values. Ramayana gives important to family relationships and truth living. Ramayan happened some million years B.C so many of proofs were loosed regarding the existence of reality but the story of Lord Rama and Seetha still mesmerizing Asian people herts because it is truly real story.    
 However, scholars, grammarians, historians have put lot of effort to standardize the original text, by verifying various manuscripts available from various parts of India, thus trying to stabilize and save the text from further contradictions.
Srimad Valmiki Ramayana is composed of verses called Sloka, in Sanskrit language, which is an ancient language from India and a complex meter called Anustup. These verses are grouped into individual chapters called Sargas, wherein a specific event or intent is told. These chapters or sargas are grouped into books called Kaandas where Kaanda means the inter-node stem of sugar cane, or also a particular phase of the story or an event in the course of story telling.

Thus the structure of Srimad Valmiki Ramayana is arranged into six Kaandas or Books, and they are:
1.Bala Kanda
2.Ayodhya Kanda
3.Aranya Kanda
4.Kishkinda Kanda
5.Sundara Kanda
6.Yuddha Kanda