Sunday, September 30, 2012

The Ramayana

Author- Priority Publications
Number of pages- I read 31 pages (in all the book has 227 pages).
So far this has happened:

So far the book is very interesting with lots of Indian words and names.There was a city called Ayodhya and was ruled by the King Dasharatha.  He and his three queens Kausalya, Kaikeyi and Sumitra were unhappy because they didn't have any children. One day Dasharatha organised a sacrifice for the gods. The gods were so pleased that they sent a messenger with a bowl of sacred rice. If the queens would eat the sacred rice they will soon have children, and they did. Four children were born. Kausalya gave birth to Rama and Kaikeyi gave birth to Bharata but as for Sumitra who ate the sacred rice twice, had twins- Laksmana and Shatrughna. When the princes were old enough they were taught various disciplins. One day Sage Vishvamitra came to Ayodhya for Rama believing that he can beat two deamons. Dasharatha belived that was not possible and offered that he himself will go with Rama but all that made Vishvamitra angry.  So Dasharatha decided not go but send Laksmana with Rama and Vishvamitra was fine with that. So they carried on their journey. As night fell they all fell asleep. In the morning they continued their journey. Soon they were at river Ganga, where Vishvamitra told them the story about how Ganga was originated. After the story they headed for the forest were a terrible deamon lived, who was killed by Rama. Vishvamitra was pleased and gave both kids weapons which he had gotten from Lord Shiva. When they reached Vishvamitra's hermitage the kids were set as guards. Soon the demons came and were killed by Rama. Rama, Laksmana and Vishvamitra went through cities solving problems of the town. On their way they heard about Sita who was a gift for the king Janaka from the earth. Sita now is grown up. Soon they reached Mithila. There at the king's palace is a mighty bow of Lord Shiva which no-one could pick up and whoever would pick the bow up would win Sita's hand. Rama tried and succeded, but when Rama Bent the bow to string it the bow snapped in half. Rama had won Sita's hand and that messege was sent to Ayodhya.       






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