Ravana

the Ramayana story, Rama, a prince, was banned from his kingdom as a result of his stepmother’s actions against him being the next king. He was banished for 14 years by his father, King Dasaratha. During this period, his wife, Sita was captured by Ravana, a demon who had been tormenting Rama’s city of Ayodhya. This caused a great war…

to consider.what final measure he should bring his campaign to an end. After much thought, he decided to use Brahmasthra” (Valmiki 249). This quote is significant because it is significant because it is saying that Rama really just wants to defeat Ravana once and for all, so he pauses for a moment in the middle for the battle and…

The Gupta Dynasty had an advanced empire that was based on Hinduism. Hinduism is a religion that has no specified founder and the people who practice the religion believe it has always existed. Hinduism is polytheistic, meaning they worship more than one god. Three gods that Hindus worship are Vishnu, Brahma, and Shiva. These gods are responsible for the creation, sustenance, and destruction of the world. Brahma is the creator, Vishnu is in charge of the preservation, Shiva is the destructor of…

Paper. This paper would be divided into five chapters out of which the first, second and the third chapters are the core of this paper. Especially the third chapter as it deals with the roles of those characters apart from Rama, Lakshmana, Sita and Ravana, who were the ‘game changers’ as their role proved to be the turning points in the lives of the four main characters of the epic. The characters which can be termed as ‘game changers’ include Hanuman, Kaikeyi and Vibhishana. Apart from them the…

possesses courage and does not shirk facing of great challenges or monsters, just as Rama does, pledging to save Sita, stolen by Ravana. After a ten month journey searching for her, Rama and Ravana finally meet and battle each other. Near the end of the battle, Ravana shoots “off his deadliest weapon-a trident endowed with extraordinary destructive power, once gifted to Ravana by the gods...It came on flaming toward Rama, its speed or course unaffected by the arrows he flung at it...When it came…

monkey god, Hanuman meets the two sons of King Desaratha and finds out that one of the sons (Prince Rama) cannot find his wife, Sita. Hanuman asks the monkeys to search the entire forest and finally finds out that Ravana, the king of demons kidnapped Sita. Hanuman and the two princes defeat Ravana and save Sita. While I was reading this story, I noticed that the gods all had their own personalities.…

tenth day of Navratri, the day came to be known as Dusshera. Ravan was treated as an intelligent man, who was became a dictating ruler due to his ego. Ravana abducted Ram’s wife Sita and kept her in her in an isolated place. On the eve of Dusshera, Lord Rama killed Raavan with the help of an army of monkeys freed Sita from Ravana. The end of Ravana meant the end of bad and evil spirit, as he was a demon by birth too. Dusshera is celebrated by burning the effigy of the Raavan, Kumkaran and…

INJUSTICE AGAINST WOMEN IN THE RAMAYANA INTRODUCTION: Woman had a secondary role in the society. She is dominated by her husband and also she act as a servant of her own husband. Male child preference , matrimonial life and the ruling system shows the position of women in the society. A women after marriage should led a life with her husband’s parents by leaving her parents who was with…

In the forest, Ravana approaches Sita disguised as a brahmana. Sita so willingly opens her doors and soon after he tries to seduce her. “You cannot win me by offering me power or wealth: for I am inseparable from Rama even as light from the sun” (Valmiki 1218). Sita being the loyal wife that she is avoids him making him even angrier and ends up abducting her. Finding out about Sita’s disappearance Rama is determined to do anything to find her and save her. While Sita was with Ravana, she…

in the form of Rama who has tremendous control over his emotions, passion and words, an ideal wife in the form of Sita, ideal brother in the form of Lakshmana, ideal devotee in the form of Hanuman and finally ideal evil and villain in the form of Ravana. This story more often gives us an insight of our lives where we try to find within ourselves Rama, the epitome of Perfection. The very mention of the word Rama inspires us and somewhat relieves us from our pains. Ramayana has enlightened the…