They had few clues about who could have been responsible for this and where she could be found. Rama and Lakshmana were distraught when they found that Sita had ‘disappeared’. He made elaborate plans and successfully kidnapped her when both the princes were away and imprisoned her in his island kingdom. Lanka was ruled by the demon king, Ravana, who desired to possess Sita.
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As they moved southwards from their kingdom, word of their sojourn in the forest spread to the island kingdom of Lanka, which is to the south of the Indian peninsula. The princes also fought several demons to protect those who sought their help. In the course of their wanderings, the princes and Sita met many sages and made many friends among both humans and in the animal kingdom. Soon, Rama, Sita and Lakshmana left the kingdom of Ayodhya for the forests. Sita, similarly, decided to accompany her husband. He immediately made up his mind to go with Rama to the forest. He did not want the sin of a broken promise to sully the noble name of his father and happily agreed to give up the throne and leave the kingdom of Ayodhya for fourteen years.īharata and Shatrugna had gone to a neighbouring kingdom, to meet their uncle, but Lakshmana was in the palace when this crisis occurred. Though Dasaratha tried to dissuade Kaikeyi from demanding that her wishes be fulfilled, Rama would have none of it. Kaikeyi, invoking that promise, listed her two wishes, namely that Rama should be exiled for fourteen years and that her son, Bharata, should be crowned king. Kaikeyi, who wanted her son to be the king, reminded Dasaratha that he had, when she had saved his life long ago, promised to grant her two wishes whenever she wanted them. As Rama was the eldest, Dasaratha planned to coronate him. Rama was an epitome of virtue and valour, as were all his brothers. Rama’s wife, Sita, is the heroine of the Ramayanam.
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Kaikeyi’s son, Bharata, and Sumitra’s sons, Lakshmana and Shatrugna, followed. Rama, the eldest of the sons, was born to Kausalya. His father, King Dasaratha, had three wives – Kausalya, Sumitra and Kaikeyi. Ramayanam is the story of Rama, a prince of Ayodhya, who lived five to six thousand years or more ago.