Reading Notes: PDE Ramayana Part D

Story: Ramayana Part A, Public Domain Edition by M. Dutt, R. Dutt, Gould, Griffith, Hodgson, Mackenzie, Nivedita, Oman, Richardson, and Ryder. Web source


Main Plot Points

• The battle begins and many are injured and killed
• Hanuman gets herbs from a mountain to heal allies
• Lakshmana defeats Indrajit and Ravana mourns
• Rama and Ravana battle til Rama wins
• Vibhishana becomes king of Lanka
• Rama and Sita are reunited but Rama tests Sita to prove her purity
• After exile over, Rama, Sita and Lakshmana go back home
• Bharata welcomes them home and Rama is crowned king
• Sita is banished, gives birth to Rama's sons
• Rama meets her again and asks if she would prove herself again, she does so by being swallowed by the earth
• Rama lives on for a thousand years more before passing on and joining her

Characters

• Indrajit - beloved son of Ravana, fierce warrior 
• Kumbhakarna - brother of Ravana
• previous characters - Rama, Lakshmana, Sita, Bharata, Hanuman

Sita's test of purity - aka Rama's an idiot

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