Verse 2·VR 1.4.2
चतुर्विंशत्सहस्त्राणि श्लोकानामुक्तवानृषिः | तथा सर्गशतान् पञ्च षट् काण्डानि तथोत्तरम् ||१-४-२
chatur.hviMshat sahasraaNi shlokaanaam uktavaan R^iShiH | tathaa sarga shataan paMcha shhaT kaaNDaani tathaa uttaram ||1-4-2
Translation
Sage Valmiki said Ramayana in twenty four thousand verses, in five hundred chapters, in six books, likewise an end-piece too. [1-4-2]
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R^iSiH
sage Valmiki
shlokaanaam
verses
chaturvimshatsahasraaNi
twenty-four thousand
tathaa
that way
panchasargashataan
five hundreds chapters
SaT kaaNDaani cha
six, books, also
tathaa uttaram
that way, an end piece
uktavaan
said.
Chapter context
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Lava and Kusha assigned to sing the epic; Rama listens to it
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