After composing of the Ramayana by Maharsi Valmiki, the story of Rama, has the mass appeal and was patronised by people at large. Soon there-after Ramakatha was patronised by the later Sanskrit poets like Kalidasa and others. So forceful had been the appeal of Ramakatha among the masses that in due course of time even the composers of the Puranas and other Sanskrit literature, could not resist the temptation of including the said story in the epic of the ...
