Many Ramayanas

Many Ramayanas
A list of languages in which the Rama story is found makes one gasp: Annamese, Balinese, Bengali, Cambodian, Chinese, Gujarati, Javanese, Kannada, Kashmiri, Khotanese, Laotian, Malaysian, Marathi, Oriya, Prakrit, Sanskrit, Santali, Sinhalese, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan—to say nothing of Western languages. Through the centuries, some of these languages have hosted more than one telling of the Rama story. Sanskrit alone contains some twenty-five or more tellings belonging to various narrative genres. Add plays, dance-dramas, and other performances, in both the classical and folk traditions, the number of Ramayanas grows even larger. Camille Bulcke, a student of the Ramayana , counted three hundred tellings.

Subtle differences in Ramayanas:
Valmikis - Ram is not god, as this is a human avatar he is bound by certain rules
Kampan/Tulsidas - Ram is god
Jain Ramayana - Ram is a sage and will not commit any evil. Hence Ravana is killed by Laxman and laxman goes to hell for this.

Source: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft3j49n8h7/