Reading room

Sundarakāṇḍa (The Beautiful Book)

Valmiki

Hanumān's book: the leap across the ocean, the night search through Rāvaṇa's city, the meeting with the captive Sītā in the aśoka grove, to whom he gives Rāma's ring, and the burning of Laṅkā with his own blazing tail. It is the book most recited in worship, and the one Robert Goldman sings in Sanskrit in a University of Berkeley recording.