The Ramayana can be read at the following web-sites:
1. from http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/index.htm
translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith [1870-1874]
The first complete public domain translation of the Ramayana to be placed online.
The text of the Ramayana with parallel Unicode Devanagari and Romanization.
iii. Abridged Versions
R. Dutt translator [1899]
A very readable abridged version of these epics.
3. http://www.urday.in/ramayana.htm
4. http://www.valmikiramayan.net/
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:
Bala Kanda ( Book of Youth) [77 chapters]
Ayodhya Kanda (Book of Ayodhya) [119 chapters]
Aranya Kanda (Book of Forest ) [75 chapters]
Kishkindha Kanda (The Empire of Holy Monkeys) [67 chapters]
Sundara Kanda ( Book of Beauty ) [68 chapters]
Yuddha Kanda ( Book of War ) [128 chapters]
http://www.valmikiramayan.net/aranya/sarga48/aranya_48_frame.htm
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