King Dasharatha
Vishvamitra told Brama the story of how Shiva sent Ganga to the underworld. Rama meets Sita and falls in love. He wins her over by shooting Shiva's bow. Parashurama needed more convincing, but Rama managed, thus Rama and Sita were married.
It was no almost time for Rama to become king. Manthara and her mother were not happy about this and they get Rama exiled for 14 years in a jungle. Luckily he had his brother and wife to accompany him.
Dasharatha accidentally killed a boy with a stray arrow and paid for it with his life via Karma.
All notes were taken on this public domain version of the Ramayana.
- Solar race
- lived in an awesome kingdom
- sad because he had no son from his three wives
- went with the horse sacrifice strategy to make his wives fertile
The Gods were happy with the horse-sacrifice and promised Dasharatha four sons. It just so happened that Vishnu needed to save the world and destroy Ravana, so he split into four and became the four sons. Everybody loved Rama the most though.
Vishvamitra needed Rama to deal with two rakshasas so. Rama headed out on the journey with his brother, Lakshamana. On the journey, Rama slew Thataka, which earned him celestial weapons. He immediately used them to take care of Thataka's sons.
Vishvamitra told Brama the story of how Shiva sent Ganga to the underworld. Rama meets Sita and falls in love. He wins her over by shooting Shiva's bow. Parashurama needed more convincing, but Rama managed, thus Rama and Sita were married.
It was no almost time for Rama to become king. Manthara and her mother were not happy about this and they get Rama exiled for 14 years in a jungle. Luckily he had his brother and wife to accompany him.
Dasharatha accidentally killed a boy with a stray arrow and paid for it with his life via Karma.
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All notes were taken on this public domain version of the Ramayana.
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