It depicts the duties of relationships, portraying ideal characters like the ideal servant, the ideal brother, the ideal wife and the ideal king. The Ramayana is one of the two great epics of India, the other being the Mahabharata.

It is ascribed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon. However, Ramayana is not only a kavya, it’s also considered to be a mahakavya(ancient heroic epic poem).

The Ramayana (Sanskrit: रामायण, Rāmāyana,) belongs to the broad classification of Sanskrit Literature known as kavya(poetry).