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The Rāmcharitmānas consists of seven books, of which the first two, entitled Childhood Episode (Bal Kānd) and Ayodhya Episode (Ayodhya Kānd), make up more than half the work. The later books are Forest Episode (Aranya Kānd), Kishkindha Episode (Kishkindha Kānd), Pleasant Episode (Sunder Kānd), Lanka Episode (Lanka Kānd), followed by an epilogue titled Uttar Kānd. The work is composed in quatrains called chaupais, broken by dohas or couplets, with an occasional sortha and chhand, the latter being a hurried metre of many rhymes and alliterations.