Where to find the earliest unabridged version (Not the abridged critical version) of the Valmiki Ramayana with Sanskrit verses? Preferably with translations into Hindi or English and also preferably as a hard copy but online would work as well. P.S: Not the Gita Press ones
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http://valmikiramayan.pcriot.com/ Here you can read for free , difference is that this website has removed uttara kanda while gita press has included uttara kanda.
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.21755/page/n17/mode/2up Here also Uttara Kanda has been removed
https://archive.org/details/ShrimadValmikiRamayan-SanskritTextWithHindiTranslation-DpSharma10/ShrimadValmikiRamayan-SktHindi-DpSharmaVol01-BalaKanda1927/page/n35/mode/2up Here hindi translation is there and uttara kanda is present too but font is not that good .
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1@Zaitor7 Gita press one is highly recommended and regarded as most authentic.– TheLittleNaruto ♦Sep 11, 2021 at 8:37
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@TheLittleNaruto Gita press 's translation is most authentic , but they don't decide whether some verses are interpolated or not . Oriental Institute of Baroda has written critical edition of Ramayana where all those verses which were not present in different manuscripts of ramayana present all over india have been removed .– user25787Sep 11, 2021 at 9:29
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2@Raghav I feel a genuine reader would be able to identify the interpolated verses.– TheLittleNaruto ♦Sep 11, 2021 at 10:04
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@TheLittleNaruto well to identify interpolations major help comes from Vedas , because whatever goes against vedas is definitely interpolation and beauty of Vedas is that samhitas are fully preserved . Now in case of Ramayana , problem is there are basic evidences which support both presence and absence of uttara kanda , so a common reader like me won't be able to decide . However a highly qualified Sanskrit and Vedic scholar might be able to decide whether Uttara Kanda is interpolated or not. By the way , you want me to share english translation of critical edition of valmiki ramayana ?– user25787Sep 11, 2021 at 10:46