Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Reading Notes, Ramayana Part D

 Notes

Page 16

- Rama is alive
- Rama kills Kumbhkarna
- Indrajit defeats Rama and Lakshmana and goes back to Lanka
- Hanuman heard of this and went back to war in the mountains 
- Lakshmana came back to fight Indrajit and killed him
- Rama then battles Taranisen and Ravana's (Virabahu) son and defeated them both

Page 17

- Ravana threatens Sita because of his failures
- Ravana rides into battle after challenging Rama again
- Rama finally kills Ravana
- After Rama receives Sita after the battle, Indra grants him a boon
- Rama then returns home

Page 18

- Rama is crowned the king and Sita becomes the queen
- Hanuman is rewarded by Sita and honors Rama
- The Story of Ratnakar
- Ratnakar renounced his bad deeds and became Valmiki the poet
- Valkami composed the Ramayan about Rama's journey

Page 19

- Rama makes the decision to get rid of Sita
- Sita is left in the forest then stumbles upon Valmiki
- Sita then has twins
- Rama wants her back but she vanishes into the Earth making Rama sad
- Rama then embraced his sons acknowledging them as princes of Ayodhya

Page 20

- Rama makes a statue of Sita that starts speaking to him
- Rama enters Ayodhya where Lakshmana beheads himself leaving Rama in grief
- Rama then departs leaving Bharata and Shatrughna to be kings
- Story about Tenalirama, Ramayana murals all of the palace that told the story
- Story about Shiva about birth and death

                                                                       Rama Departs
                                                       (British Library: Mewar Ramayana)

Bibliography

TinyTales from the Ramayana, Laura Gibbs. https://sites.google.com/view/tinyramayana/home


No comments:

Post a Comment

Week 15 - Extra Credit Reading

                                                                                         ( Mahabharata ) Notes -  He sees Vyasa, an ascetic ...