What are the strange facts about Ramayana?

 There are thousands of awesome facts linked with Hindu scriptures. One can continuously quotes this facts for days. I will write only the one that Flashes in my mind when I read this Question Ramayana.

Most of us are aware of the fact that more than 300 versus of the Indian Epic Poem, the Ramayana are known to exist. Ramayana has also emerged in different versions in several countries like, Cambodia, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Indonesia,Philippines Nepal and Tibet. 

The traditional believe is that whatever Ramayana is incomplete. There are millions of Ramayana narrations available, Shiva narrate the story e in a hundred thousand versus, Hanuman 60,000 of these, Rishi Valmiki narrates 24,000 and all other poets narrated fewer than that.

Here is a list of prominent versions of Ramayana. With approximate dating specially of the earlier works.

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Before 2nd Century BCE: Oral tellings by travelling bards

 Second Century BCE: Valmiki's Sanskrit Ramayana.

1st Century CE:  Vyasa's Ramopakhyan in His Mahabharata.

2nd Century CE: Bhasa's Sanskrit Play Pratima Nataka.

3rd Century CE: Sanskrit Vishnu Purana.

4th Century CE: Vimalasuri's Prakrit Paumacharya (Jain)

5th Century CE: Kalidasa's Sanskrit Raghuvamasa.

6th Century CE: Pali Dashratha Jataka (Buddhist).

6th Century CE: first images of Ram on Deoghar temple walls.

7th Century CE: Sanskrit Bhattikavya.

8th Century CE: Bhavabhuti's Sanskrit Play Mahavira-Charita.

9th Century CE: Sanskrit Bhagavat Purana

10th Century CE: Murari's Sanskrit Play Anargha-Raghava

11th Century: Bhoja's Sanskrit Champu Ramayana

12th Century: Kamban's Tamil Iramavataram

13th Century: Buddha Reddy's Telugu Ranganath Ramayana

14th Century: Sanskrit Adbhut Ramayana

15th Century: Krittivasa's Bengali Ramayana

15th Century: Kandali's Assamese Ramayana

15th Century: Balaram Das's Odia Dandi Ramayana

15th Century: Sanskrit Anadna Ramayana

16th Century: Tulsi Das's Avadhi Shri Ramayana

16th Century: Akbar's Collection of Ramayana Paintings

16th Century: Eknath's Marathi Bhavarth Ramayana

16th Century: Torave's Kannada Ramayana

17th Century: Guru Gobind Singh's Braj Govind Ramayana, As Part of Dasam Granth.

18th Century: Giridhar's Gujrati Ramayana

18th Century: Divakara Prakasha Bhatta's Kashmiri Ramayana

19th Century: BhanuBhakta's Nepali Ramayana

1921: Cinema, Silent Film, Sati Sulochana

1943: Cinema, Ram Rajya,  (Only Film Seen by Mahatma Gandhi)

1955: Radio, Marathi Geet Ramayana

1987: Television, Ramanand Sagar's hindi RAMAYANA