Reading Notes - Ramayana Part B

(Image Information: Ravana slices off Jatayu's wings and abducts Sita; Source: Wiki)

21. Bharata Returns by Donald A Mackenzie
Bharata returns to Ayodhya because he heard word of Dasharatha's death
Bharata views Rama as a sire after the death of his father
Bharata doesn't want the throne and says that he will bring Rama back from the jungle

23. Rama and Bharata by Donald A Mackenzie
Bharata goes and tells Rama of their dead father
Rama decides to stay in the jungle and allow Bharata to reign due to a forgot promise to his father

26. Viradha  by Manmatha Nath Dutt
Viradha (a rakshasa) grabs Sita in the forest
Viradha cannot be killed by weapons so Rama and Lakshmana break his arms
They dig a pit and cast Viradha into it
After Viradha had descended into the pit, it was revealed that he was cursed and so the curse was
       broken because he was saved by Rama and so he attained Heaven

28.  Shurpanakha and Rama by Donald A Mackenzie and Romesh Dutt
Shurpanakha sees Rama and falls in love with him
Rama rejects her and suggests his brother instead

29. Lakshmana and Shurpanakha by Donald A Mackenzie and Romesh Dutt
Shurpanakha goes to find Lakshmana to marry him, but he jokes with her
In her fit of rage, Shurpanakha lunges at Sita so Lakshmana disfigures her
She runs to her brother, Khara, and he dispatches rakshasas to go kill them, but they all die

30. Battle with Khara by Donald A Mackenzie
Rama fights Khara and Dushana, Khara and Shurpanakha's brother, and kills both of them
Lakshmana had taken Sita into a secret cave to protect her during the fight

31. Shurpanakha and Ravana by Fredericka Richardson Macdonald
Shurpanakha asks Ravana to kidnap Sita because she is the key to Rama and Lakshmana
Ravana grants her wish

32. Ravana and Maricha by Sister Nivedita
Ravana goes to Maricha, who is a hermit
Ravana doesn't listen to Maricha's warning of abducting Sita
Maricha is made to transform into a beautiful, golden deer

34. The Chase by Donald A Mackenzie
Rama manages to shoot the deer while on his hunt asked by Sita, who transforms back to Maricha
Maricha tricks Sita by calling out to her and Lakshmana in Rama's voice
Sita speaks harshly to Lakshmana and he returns in kind

35. Ravana and Sita by Donald A Mackenzie and Romesh Dutt
Ravana comes to Sita as a forest sage
He questions her about who is her lord and she responds Rama
Ravana changes form and then kidnaps her

36. Jatayu and Ravana by Sister Nivedita
Sita prays to Jatayu as she sees him before they depart
Jatayu and Ravana fight
Jatayu ends up getting his wings cut off
Ravana continues to abduct Sita
Sita drops jewels for the monkeys on the mountain

38. Rama and Jatayu by Donald A Mackenzie
Jatayu retells everything to Rama and Lakshmana
Jatayu dies in Rama's arms





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