ramayana english verses
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Ramayana
Translation 1870–1874.
One of the two epic Hindu poems, the other being the Mahabharata. The Ramayana tells the story of the deeds of Lord Ram who, having devoted himself to fighting demons, defeats in a mighty war Ravan, the demon king of Lanka (present day Sri Lanka), who had kidnapped his wife Sita.
This verse translation by Griffith, whose translations of the Rig Veda and the Sama Veda are also available at sacred-texts, was scanned in 2000 from an original copy, which had very poor typesetting. Due to the difficulty of converting this 600 page text to etext, the project was put on hold for several years until OCR technology matured. Finally in 2003, the text was OCR-ed and proofed at Distributed Proofing. However, despite best efforts, there are several places in this text where the proofing was difficult or impossible. These are indicated by asterisks or (illegible). We are in the process of cleaning up these issues and hope to have a definitive version of this text at some point.
valmikiramayan.net
In these web pages, the verses of vAlmIki rAmAyaNa, so far encoded for Sanskrit 98 and Translit 98 fonts are experimentally transposed to UTF-8 encoding. Readers are requested to tune their machines to enable International Support to show Indic languages, Sanskrit 2003 and URW Palladio ITU fonts.
Included here is a 3 MB pdf file of Introduction, which contains a detailed preface and exhaustive notes given by Shreemaan C. R. Srinivasa Ayyangar in his prose translation iof Valmiki Ramayana, a 1910 publication, of which only bAla and ayodhya kANDA-s are available in the corpus of Digital Library of India.
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