Balakanda

Balakanda
Vishvamitra asks Dasharatha for help
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ReligionHinduism
LanguageSanskrit

Bala Kanda (Sanskrit: बालकाण्ड; IAST: bālakāṇḍa', lit.'Incident of childhood') is the first Book of the Valmiki Ramayana. The Bala Kanda, in partif not in its entiretyis generally regarded as an interpolation to the original epic.