Reading Notes: Narayan

Narayan begins with Dasharatha having no children to defeat the Ravana. Rama is taken to battle with Vishvamitra. Agastya turned Thataka and her family into demons. Rama does battle with the demon Thataka and kills her. Thataka’s sons seek revenge for her death, but rama defeats them as well, and after vishvamitra takes rama to king janaka. Rama and sita fall in love, but inorder for rama to win sitas love he must lift, bend and string the enormous bow of the god shiva. Rama is named Dasharatha’s successor. Rama is sent into exile for fourteen years. While in the forest rama meets a beautiful woman named kamavalli, but her real name is shurpanakha. Ravana wants to abduct sita, but in order to do so he needs the aid of his uncle maricha. But maricha is now living a life of Meditation and does not want to participate, but ravana does not take no for an answer. Sita is captivated by a golden deer that maricha had dressed up as. But sita wants the golden deer so rama shoots it, and the uncle calls out using ramas voice making sita think rama needs help. Sita sends Lakshmana to go after rama leaving sita alone and with no guards.
(Above is the golden deer Rama shoots, Picture Source: Golden Deer)

Bibliography
Narayan's Ramayana Part A

Comments

  1. Laura GibbsSeptember 2, 2018 at 6:19 PM

    Hi Drew, this is great; it looks like you have actually read Part A AND Part B here and taken notes; Part A ended with the death of Dasharatha. Normally the idea is to do two separate blog posts, one post for Part A and then another post for Part B. But you are rolling along here: the kidnapping of Sita comes halfway through the epic, and the second half is all about Rama's quest to rescue her. :-)

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