Reading Notes: Ramayana, Part B
- Doesn't know that father is dead
- Doesn't know Rama is exiled
- Finds out
- Performs funeral rites for father
- Ten days mourning
- Seeks Rama in the wilderness
- Goes into forest
- Persuade him to return to the city
- Rama is at Chitrakuta
- Rama won't return to Ayodhya
- Bharata takes sandals to represent Rama
- Sandals: paduka
- Bharata won't return to Ayodhya
- Waiting for Rama's return in Nandigram
- Visit the ashrams of many sages
- Arti and his wife Anasuya
- Sita tells Anasuya her life story
- Strange birth story
- Sita is kidnapped by a demon
- Rama and Lakshmana battle demon
- Viradha: demon
- Can't be wounded with a sharp weapon
- Viradha's real name is Tumburu
- Ancient curse connects him and Rama
- Rama meets another sage in the forest
- Agastya: sage, famous Indian rishis
- Rama receives weapons
- Refuses to stay with Agastya
- Encounters a rakshasa
- Ravana's sister falls in love with Rama
- Shurpanakha: sister
- No feelings in return
- Seduces brother instead
- Laughed at and rejected
- Attacks
- Khara: her brother
- Surapanka goes after Sita
- Lakshmana attacks her
- Another attack
- Thousands of weapons against Rama
- Rama slew Dushana
- Khara wanted to avenge his brother's death
- Khara was killed
- Ravana: King of Lanka
- Shurpanakha tells Ravana what happened
- Ravana needs Maricha's help
- Wants to abduct Sita
- Turns into golden deer
- Sita enchanted by golden deer
- Wants Rama to get deer for her
- Maricha: golden deer
- He imitates Rama's voice
- Ravana can change shapes
- Becomes a sage
- Sita is unguarded
- She is tricked
- Ravana abducts Sita
- Mighty bird: Jatayu
- Watched over exiles in the forest
- Battles with Ravana
- Tried to save Sita
- She drops jewelry for Rama to find
- Brahma is happy, wanted to destroy Ravana
- Forces Sita to go to Lanka
- Can't rape her
- Curse put on him by Brahma
- Sita must agree willingly
- She refuses
- They find Sita is gone
- Jatayu tells them what happened
- Rama and Lakshmana head south
- Encounter a rakshasa
- Seek the aid of ape chief
- In the Rishyamukha Mountain
- Looking for Sugriva
- Find a hermitage: Shabari
- She was expecting Rama
- Holy men departed
- Timewarp
- Just as the saints left it
- Rama performs her funeral rites, her destiny is complete
Bibliography: M. Dutt, R. Dutt, Gould, Griffith, Hodgson, Mackenzie, Nivedita, Oman, Richardson, and Ryder.
Balasaheb Pandit Pant Pratinidhi, 1916
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