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Reading Notes Ramayana Part D

 Summary of Tiny Tales 151-200



160. RAMA DUELS WITH RAVANA'S SON
  • Ravana's son Virabahu was devoted to Vishnu (Rama)
  • He saw Rama during battle and immediately bowed down to him
  • he yelled "I am yours" to Rama
  • He begged him to kill him with his sword so he could ascend to heaven
  • Rama refused
  • VIRABAHU promised to make Rama kill him
  • They began to battle
  • Rama's sword finally cut VIRABAHU's head off
  • VIRABAHU's head kept chanting Rama's name
  • VIRABAHU ascended into heaven
162. RAVANA THREATENS SITA
  • Ravana was overwhelmed with all of. his failures
  • he grabbed his sword and ran to the ashoka grove
  • he scremed on and on about how Sita did all of these malicious things
  • He promised to kill her himself
  • Sita sat calmly and prepared for her death
  • She regretted not letting Hanuman take her away
  • she blamed herself
  • an honorable rakshasa named Suparshva restrained Ravana
  • He was told that Sita is not his enemy and his enemy is on the battlefield
  • So finally Ravana went to go challenge Rama himself
167. SITA REBUKES RAMA
  • Rama's words made Sita feel very angry and ashamed
  • She was sobbing and asking how he could have such little regard for womenkind
  • She stated she was abducted by Ravana and she still kept her loyalty and she wanted to prove this to Rama
  • She built a fire
  • she then. prayed to Agni, the fire-god
  • she prayed to prove her faithfulness by walking into the fire without buring
  • she did so and Angi himself carried her out
  • Rama was overjoyed with his wife's loyalty
171. RAMA BECOMES KING
  • Sumitra told Lakshmana to go wake his wife Urmila
  • She had been sleeping all the years he had been gone to keep him awake
  • He awoke her and she wept tears of joy to finally be reconnected with her husband
  • Rama was crowned king and Sita was his queen
  • They were showered with flowers from heaven
  • everyone was so happy
172.  SITA REWARDS HANUMAN
  • After Rama's coronation, Sita honored Hanuman by gifting him a pearl necklace
  • He began biting the pearls
  • they began to crack and he looked inside
  • Sita and everyone around laughed asking what he was doing
  • He answered by saying he was looking for Sita inside the pearls
  • he said that the necklace meant nothing to him if she wasn't inside
  • people began to question how she could be put in a neckalace
  • Hanuman answered by saying the same way they were in his heart
  • he opened his chest and there sat Rama and Sita
  • he then asked "are they not in your hearts too?"
Bibliography Bibliography; Laura Gibbs, TINY TALES FROM THE RAMAYANA, Cite


(Sita and her twin sons: Lava and Kusha image)

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