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The exile of Rama is an event featured in the Ramayana, [1] [2] [a] and is an important period in the life of Rama.In the epic, Rama is exiled by his father, Dasharatha, under the urging of his step-mother Kaikeyi, accompanied by his wife Sita and half-brother Lakshmana for 14 years. [3]
In the Ramayana, Sita has few other rakshasi benefactors besides Trijata.When Hanuman – the vanara-general of Rama who was tasked to find Sita – meets her in Lanka, she tells him that the wife of Vibhishana (the brother of Ravana who sides with Rama in the war) sent her daughter Kala (in other recensions of the Ramayana, known as Nanda or Anala) to proclaim Ravana's intention to not ...
Ravana's granduncle was Malyavan, who opposed the war with Rama and Lakshmana. He also had another granduncle named Mali who was killed by Vishnu. [23] Ravana had 2 full brothers, 8 half brothers, 1 full sister and 3 half sisters. Ravana had three wives, Mandodari, the daughter of the celestial architect Maya, Dhanyamalini, and a third wife.
Ravana was well known for his abilities in meditation and ascetic practices. [11] He was the king of Rakshasa , a kingdom of civilized and vegetarian people. [ 12 ] Sugriva was appointed by his brother Vali to become the king before Vali renounces the world and becomes a Jain monk. [ 12 ]
A 9-year-old boy was among those killed, along with women ages 52, 45, 67 and 75. ... Police have not released a motive in the attack, but two senior U.S. officials told NBC News that authorities ...
Malyavan is against his grandson's war with Prince Rama, and attempts in vain to convince Ravana to let go to Sita; however, this counsel is rejected by Ravana: [3]. O King, that monarch who is versed in the fourteen sciences, who follows polity, rules an empire over a long period and overcomes his adversaries, who concludes peace or wages war at a fitting time, advances his own party and ...
Police identified the suspected shooter who killed a student and a teacher at Abundant Life Christian School in Wisconsin as 15-year-old female student Natalie Rupnow.
A New York resident who prosecutors say operated a "secret police station" in the Chinatown district of Manhattan to aid Beijing's targeting of dissidents, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to ...