Title: Ramayana - World History Encyclopedia
Headings: Ramayana
Ramayana
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Rama is born
Rama marries Sita
Rama is exiled
Ravana abducts Sita
Rama meets Hanuman
Sita faces a trial by fire
Rama is crowned at Ayodhya
Sita is banished
Lava & Kush sing the Ramayana
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Content: To the youngest queen, the king gave the remaining half of the nectar and again, the second queen got the portion that remained. In time, the queens gave birth to sons: to the eldest was born Rama, to the youngest was born Bharat, and to the second queen were born the twins Lakshman and Shatrughna. Remove Ads
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Rama, hero of the Ramayana, is the ideal son & king, Sita the ideal wife. Rama marries Sita
When the princes had grown up some, the sage Vishwamitra arrived at Dasharath's court and asked that Rama and Lakshman be "lent" to him to help him rid his hermitage of the demons that were plaguing the ashram dwellers by defiling their sacrifices with blood and bones, and by killing them off. After the two princes successfully rid the ashram of the demons, the sage took them to the neighbouring kingdom of Mithila to show them the swayamvar festivities of the Mithila princess, Sita, born of the earth. The king of that country had adopted Sita as his daughter and, after Sita had grown up, had declared that he would give her in marriage to anyone who could string the Great Bow of Shiva. No one could. Several kings, princes, and commoners had tried and failed. The swayamvar had been in progress for several months now and the bow still remained unstrung.