Bala Kanda (The book of the childhood) is the first book of the Valmiki Ramayana, which is one of the two great epic poems of India, the other being the Mahabharata.
The book consists of 77 sargas (sometimes translated as chapters or cantos) of Sanskrit verse. The Bala kanda begins with the ascetic Valmiki questioning the famous sage Narada if there is any man who is truly virtuous. Narada replies that there is such a man, and that his name is Rama. He then goes on to briefly describe Rama’s physical characteristics and to briefly summarize the story of the Ramayana.
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when I count all the numbers against all kandas/sargas as presented above they only amount to 20010.. Why the discrepency
I’ve found the following at: https://www.valmiki.iitk.ac.in/content?field_kanda_tid=1&language=dv&field_sarga_value=4&field_sloka_value=1&etmt=1&#:~:text=In%20the%20Uttarakanda%20there%20are,highest%20regard%20for%20that%20kanda
The Ramayana has twentyfour thousand slokas. It starts with tapassvadhyaya and ends with tadbrahmapyanva manyata. There are five hundred sargas in the first six kandas only, i.e. excluding the Uttarakanda. Balakanda comprises 2280, Ayodhyakanda 4415, Aranyakanda 2732, Kiskindhakanda 2620, Sundarakanda 3006, Yuddhakanda 5990 and Uttarakanda 3277 granthas (verses). The 277 additional granthas we get here is due to the excess of syllables in metres like Tristubh and Jagati. Now Balakanda consists of 77, Ayodhyakanda 119, Aranyakanda 75, Kiskindhakanda 67, Sundarakanda 68 and Yuddhakanda 131 sargas. Thus we have 537 sargas. In the Uttarakanda there are 110 sargas.