Kalidasa is also the author of an epic in Prakrit, wherein he sings of the building of the bridge between India and Ceylon and of the death of Ravana.
We are told that the Ramayana inspired the greatest poet of Mediaeval India, Tulsi Das, to compose the Ram Charit Manas, an epic wherein he gives a somewhat shorter and very popular version of Rama's adventures.

This work still serves as a sort of Bible for a hundred million of the people of northern India.
The poet Kaviraja (c.

800 A.D.) composed an epic wherein he combines the Ramayana and Mahabharata into one single poem.

This is a Hindu _tour de force_, for we are told that "the composition is so arranged that by the use of ambiguous words and phrases the story of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata is told at one and the same time.

The same words, according to the sense in which they are understood, narrate the events of each epic." THE RAMAYANA This Hindu epic, an older poem than the Mahabharata, was composed in Sanscrit some five hundred years before our era, and is contained in seven books, aggregating twenty-four thousand verses.