Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Reading Notes PDE Ramayana-A Week 3




  • 2 kingdoms
    • Koshala: King Dasharatha
    • Mithila: King Janaka
  • Capital of Koshala was Ayodhya. Big grand city lots of temples and stuff. Lots of wildlife
  • King of Koshala sad because no sons from his three queens
  • Horse sacrifice. Horse wandered around for a year and came back and along with 21 other animals was sacrificed
  • Gods promised 4 sons to king
  • One of the sons born is a reincarnation of Vishnu and was born in order to defeat the king of the rakshasas Ravana. Vishnu born as Rama. Brahmin recognizes this and tells the king
  • A wise sage comes and asks Rama to fight against the rakshashas. Reluctantly, Dasharatha agrees
  • Rama fights Thataka and cuts off her arms. She turns invisible and then starts throwing boulders so he shoots her with an arrow.
  • Suddenly rakshashas appeared and attacked Rama but he killed them all.

Source: PDE of Ramayana, Multiple Authors

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Battle of Lanka
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