The literature of India spans many millennia, describing a variety of lifestyles, traditions, and cultures across a large and diverse area, written in dozens of languages. Famous works originating from India include poems, scriptures, novels, and epics, all originally written in different languages, ranging from ancient Sanskrit, Hindi, English, and many other regional dialects. The two most important Hindu epics, Ramayana and Mahabharata, are the best known throughout the country of India. (“India's Epics, Ancient & Modern.”) These two stories, which bear great similarities to Western works such as Homer's Odyssey and the Bible, tell a story of kingdoms and gods that contain many themes central to Hinduism, such as dharma and karma. .The Ramayana is attributed to the sage Valmiki, who wrote the epic about 2500 years ago. The original version was written in the ancient Sanskrit language, which is now considered a dead, but sacred language of the gods. Although the complete transcription of Valmiki's work could not be found, partial representations and scripts exist that can be dated to his time. The main way this story was passed down was through oral tradition, primarily through the learned saints and reciters of the ancient kingdoms. The tradition of passing down this story still occurs today, told in more modern ways such as films, TV series, and theater. Due to India's regional diversity, the Ramayana has been rendered differently in each region, taking on different meanings and emphasizing different scenes and features of the epic. For example, many in South India worship the monkey Hanuman, who aided Rama in his time in the forest and in his journey to defeat the... medium of paper... in both of these epics. they attached great importance to dharma. In conclusion, these two poems are epic in their themes and spirit, but they are not like any other two epic poems in the world, but are entirely of their own nature and characteristically different from the others in their principle. These epics are therefore a highly artistic representation of the meanings of life, of a developed ethical mind and of a high social, political and spiritual ideal of dharma and the image of a great culture. These Indian epics were fashioned to serve a larger cultural function and were meant to be received and absorbed by both the elite and the common man, the educated and the masses, and remain for twenty centuries an intimate and formative part of the life of the people . the whole nation is the strongest possible proof of the greatness of these ancient Indian epics.