The Rama Story: Origins and Growth (the Hindi original is Ramakatha: Utpatti aur Vikas) is a comprehensive study of all variations on the story of Rama in Indian languages and abroad. It is uniue in the meticulous documentation of details regarding each character and every episode in the Ramayana along with analysis and discussion of its different recensions and all the interpolations, bringing to the fore facts that most people-the common readear as well as the learned scholar-are unaware of, particularly those not knowing Hindi.