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Summary

1. RAMAYANA

2. WHAT IS RAMAYANA ? Ramayana is an ancient Sanskrit epic which follows  Prince Rama's quest to rescue his beloved wife Sita from the clutches of Ravana with the help of an army of monkeys . It is traditionally attributed to the authorship of the sage Valmiki and dated to around 500 BCE to 100 BCE.

3. PLOT OF THE STORY

4. PLOT OF THE STORY Dasharatha is the King of Ayodhya and has three wives and four sons,  Rama , Lakshmana, Bharata and Shatrughana . Rama is the ideal and perfect son, and grows up with his brothers. When he comes of age, he marries Sita, the princess of a nearby kingdom. However, Bharata's   mother  is Kaikeyi, who resents Rama being the crown prince. She calls up a debt that Dasharatha owes her and asks for Rama to be exiled for fourteen years and her son Bharata be made crown prince instead.

5. PLOT OF THE STORY 2. The devastated Dasharatha has no choice and Rama prepares to leave for exile. Sita and Lakshmana will not leave his side however and follow him into the forest. While in the forest, Surphanaka , a female rakshasi ( demoness ) becomes enamored of Rama and is wounded by Lakshmana while trying to kill Sita. She flees to her brother Khara and asks him to avenge her. However, Khara and his army are defeated by Rama and Lakshmana, and only one member of their entire army survives. This lone soldier flees to the island kingdom of Lanka and begs Surphanaka's brother, the mighty king Ravana to avenge them. Ravana has heard of Sita's beauty and he decides to abduct her. Using trickery and  magic , he manages to lure Rama and Lakshmana away from Sita and kidnaps her, taking her away to Lanka

6. PLOT OF THE STORY Dasharatha is the King of Ayodhya and has three wives and four sons,  Rama , Lakshmana, Bharata and Shatrughana . Rama is the ideal and perfect son, and grows up with his brothers. When he comes of age, he marries Sita, the princess of a nearby kingdom. However, Bharata's   mother  is Kaikeyi, who resents Rama being the crown prince. She calls up a debt that Dasharatha owes her and asks for Rama to be exiled for fourteen years and her son Bharata be made crown prince instead.

7. PLOT OF THE STORY 3. Rama and Lakshmana travel far and wide searching for Sita but to no avail. Finally, they come upon a band of vanaras or monkey-men who pledge to help him. One of the might warriors of the vanaras ,  Hanuman , becomes Rama's staunch devotee. The vanaras seek out traces of Sita and find she has been taken to Lanka. Hanuman flies to Lanka and confirms she is imprisoned there. He contacts Sita and informs her of Rama's whereabouts, promising that they will be back to rescue her. Before returning to the mainland, Hanuman sets fire to the whole city of Lanka.

8. CONFLICT OF THE STORY

9. The main conflict in the Story of Rama ( the exiled prince of Ayodhya) , is  Rama and his cohort fighting against Ravana. But this is also a struggle for Rama's self-knowledge of himself as an avatar of Vishnu. Rama must rescues his wife Sita from demon king Ravana before returning to his ancestral land to reclaim his throne .

10. RESOLUTION OF THE STORY

11. Fighting alongside innumerable mystic monkeys, bears, and his brother Lakshman , Ram defeats the forces of Ravana, slaying Ravana in one on one combat, and rescues Sita; Ram then returns to Ayodhya, where he is immediately crowned king and rules over a peaceful nation for 10,000 years. At the story’s end, Ram casts off his mortal coil, manifesting his fully divine form of Vishnu, and returns to Heaven, where Sita, who has died years before, awaits him in her divine form of Lakshmi .

12. M O R A L L E S S O N

13. The Ramayana teaches us that not only is it possible, but it is also necessary to ensure victory over evil forces. Lord Ram is the epitome of kindness, compassion, and love. His wisdom and patience made it possible for him to follow his inner good without worrying about the loss of luxuries and kingship.

14. MAIN CHARACTERS

15. RAMA is the hero of the  Ramayana   epic, an incarnation of the God Vishnu. The eldest and favourite son of Dasaratha, King of Ayodhya, he is a virtuous prince and is much loved by the people. He is exiled from Ayodhya due to the plotting of his stepmother, Kaikeyi

16. DASHARATHA is the King of Ayodhya, Rama's father.

17. KAIKEYI Dasaratha's wife and Rama's stepmother. She demands that Rama be banished to the forest and that her son Bharata be awarded the kingdom instead.

18. LAKSHAMANA Rama's younger brother c ompletely loyal to Rama, he chooses to go with Rama and Sita when they are exiled from Ayodhya.

19. RAMA is the hero of the  Ramayana   epic, an incarnation of the God Vishnu. The eldest and favourite son of Dasaratha, King of Ayodhya, he is a virtuous prince and is much loved by the people. He is exiled from Ayodhya due to the plotting of his stepmother, Kaikeyi

20. BHARATA is the second son of Dasaratha. When he learns that his mother Kaikeyi had forced Rama into exile, causing Dasaratha to die broken hearted, he storms out of the palace and goes in search of Rama. When Rama refuses to return from his exile to assume the throne, Bharata obtains Rama's sandals and places them on the throne as a gesture that Rama is the true king.

21. KAUSALYA is Rama's mother, Dasaratha's chief wife.

22. SITA is Rama's wife and daughter of King Janaka of Mithila. Sita is the epitome of womanly purity and virtue.

23. SUMITRA is Dasharatha's wife and mother of the twins Lakshmana and Satrughna.

24. HANUMAN is the wise and resourceful monkey who helps Rama in his quest to defeat Ravana and rescue Sita.

25. RAVANA the king of Lanka and has 10 heads and 20 arms. He received a boon from the God Brahma that he cannot be killed by gods, demons or by spirits, after performing a severe penance for 10,000 years. After receiving his reward from Brahma, Ravana began to lay waste to the earth and disturbed the deeds of the good Hindu sages. Vishnu incarnates as the human Rama to defeat him, assisted by an army of monkeys and bears, thus circumventing the boon given by Brahma .

26. THE AUTHOR

27. VALMIKI Valmiki was the  composer of the first Sanskrit poem (the Adikavya ) known the world over as the epic Ramayana (Story of Lord Rama) , hence he is called the Adikavi or First Poet - the Poet of Poets of India. He was born along the banks of the Ganges in ancient India to a sage by the name of Prachetasa .

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