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Kaikeyi then manipulates Dasharatha into exiling Rama for fourteen years and crowning Bharata as the Crown Prince. On the day Rama was to be made Crown Prince, Rama himself is the one who informs Kausalya that Dasharatha has instead exiled him to the forest. Kausalya with Lakshmana both attempt to convince Rama not to go to the forest. [9]
After Rama's departure to the forest, Dasharatha lay in his bed with a wailing Kaushalya. He suddenly remembered an incident which had occurred in his past. He narrated to Kausalya and Sumitra about how, by accident, he had killed a young man named Shravana , mistaking him to be a deer.
Rama's story is a major part of the artistic reliefs found at Angkor Wat, Cambodia. Large sequences of Ramayana reliefs are also found in Java, Indonesia. [241] Rama's life story, both in the written form of Sanskrit Ramayana and the oral tradition arrived in southeast Asia in the 1st millennium CE. [242]
Lakṣmaṇa (Lakkhaṇa) was a sibling of Rama and son of Sumitra, the second wife of Dasharatha. Sita was the wife of Rama. To protect his children from his wife Kaikeyi, who wished to promote her son Bharata, Dasharatha sent the three to a hermitage in the Himalayas for a twelve-year exile.
He abducted Rama's wife, Sita, and took her to his kingdom of Lanka, where he held her in the Ashoka Vatika. [4] Rama, with the support of vanara King Sugriva and his army of varanasi, launched a rescue operation for Sita against Ravana in Lanka. Ravana was subsequently slain, and Rama rescued his beloved wife Sita. [5] [6]
Kaikeyi is married to the king of Kosala, Dashratha.She performs the Putrakameshti yagna alongside Dasharatha and his two other wives in hopes of blessings for children. At the sacrifice conducted by Rishyasringa to obtain sons for the childless Dasharatha, a divine being emerged from the flames with a golden vessel filled with divine payasam (a milk delicacy) prepared by the gods.
Mithila art, which originated at Sita's birthplace depicts Sita and Rama's marriage ceremony through the paintings. [81] In Rama and Sita's temple, she is always placed on Rama's right, with a golden-yellow complexion. [82] She is dressed in traditional sari or ghagra-choli along with a veil. Her jewelry is either made of metals, pearls or ...
Over time in later Rama-centric literature, Sarama was identified as Vibhishana's wife while Trijata was regarded his daughter. [ 5 ] Sarama's identification with Vibhishana's wife is introduced quite early, in the Uttra Kanda , the last Book of the Ramayana itself, which is regarded as a later addition to the original text. [ 5 ]