Reading Notes: Ramayana Part A



Rama Wins Sita 1

This story to me showed many similarities to King Arthur and Excalibur. With Rama needing to do an previously impossible task that no man had done before, in exchange for a gift of extraordinary worth. In this case Rama wins Sita in the contest of power, while Arthur won the rite to be king. It would be fun to intermix these two stories into one that still retains the original themes of both.

Dasharatha's Karma 2

"Hasten to my sire and inform him of my fate lest his curse should consume thee as a fire consumes a withered tree." This line was foreshadowing of how both the mother and the father of the young boy would jump into his funeral pyre with him as how a 'fire consumes a withered tree'.

Dasharatha's Sons 3

I found this story interesting because of the horse sacrifice and the detail that went into it. It was cool that as a part of the ritual the horse got to live it's last year, completely free to go wherever it wanted.

Bhagiratha and Ganga 4

This story had a more magical fairy-tale feeling than the other stories in Part A. The main driving point for this idea is the ages given for the generations in Ayodhya. Additionally, the fact that the mother was expected to have sixty-thousand sons is quite preposterous. With these obscurities set aside the story of the formation of the River Ganges is still interesting. The amount of begging that was necessary for Ganga to descend unto Earth was the culmination of many year. Even then the force of this falling required a reaction from Shiva in order to absorb the shock of the descent. In the end the sixty-thousand were cleansed in the underworld.


File:Ganges River bank in Varanasi.jpg
Bank of the River Ganges

Bibliography

Rama Wins Sita
Dasharatha's Karma
Dasharatha's Sons
Bhagiratha and Ganga

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