Reading Notes: Ramayana Part D

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Kumbhakarna

  • Rakshasas are a scary creature, but have you heard of Kumbhakarna?
  • Kumbhakarna is the ultimate demon who devoured human beings left and right. However, Brahma demanded that he would be asleep for six months and be awake for only a day. Every time that day comes, he would eat a meal and food coma. 
  • One day, Kumbhakarna wakes up but not to loud noises or being trampled over but to beautiful women caressing him. 
  • This is interesting because he woke up before he hit the six months mark.


 Ravana and Lakshmana

  • Ravana and Lakshmana battle it out. Ravana threw a dart and punctured Lakshmana's heart.
  • Lakshmana dies right then and there, but wait! Hanuman comes in to revive him with some healing herbs. 
  • Lakshmana comes back much more powerful. 
  • I might take some parts of this story and change it up a little bit to make it my own. 


 Valmiki's Hermitage

  • Sita is sent into exile by Rama and gives birth to two sons, named Lava and Kusha.
  • Rama eventually encounters the two boys and asked, "Whose children are you?"
  • They replied "Sita is our mother, but we know not the name of our sire."
  • I wonder if Rama knows they are his children. 


 Sita Departs

  • Rama decides to take Sita back as long as she confesses that she is pure and blameless.
  • Sita confesses, "I have never thought of anyone but Rama even in my heart; as this is true, may the goddess of the earth be my protection. I have always with mind and body and words prayed for Rama's welfare, and by this I pray Vasudhara to receive me."
  • Sita descends into the earth because she is pure and not to be blamed.

Sita goes into the earth. Source: Raja Ravi Varma


Bibliography: http://ouocblog.blogspot.com/2014/04/ramayana-online-public-domain-edition.html

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