Week 14 part B: Guide: Rama

 Reading Notes

Guide: Rama

Dasharatha is king

Rama was a skilled archer and went to go win over his soon to be wife Sita by snapping her bow

Dasharatha wanted Rama to be his successor but was convinced by the queen not to let him so he was exiled instead

While in the forest, Rama encounters a demoness disguised a girl that tries to persuade Rama to be with her

Rama says no and discovers her true form and has to take on an army that she summoned

Rama slays her whole army easily but lets her escape to go tell her brother Ravana what happened

Rama leads his army to Lanka to retrieve his beloved wife sita

Ravana is enraged at being told to give her back to evade war so he presses on

Rama and Ravana fight in battle and Rama ends up killing Ravana

Rama makes Vibhishana king of Lanka


Ravana


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