Reading Notes : Narayan Ramayana, Reading D
Ravana in Council
- Hanuman wrecked Lanka but Ravana asked Maya to rebuild it
- Ravana's council asks to seek and kill Rama and his brother
- Vibishana tries to speak reason but was ignored. He leaves his brother and join Rama
Across The Ocean
- Surgreeva and Jambava did not trust Vibishana
- Hanuman is portrayed very modest in this chapter because he didn't speak up until Rama asked him to do so.
- Hanuman trusts Vibishana since he spared Hanuman when he was initially captured by Ravana in Lanka
- Rama ordered everyone to treat Vibishana as a leader of Lanka in exile.
- Rama possesses immense power since he threatened to evaporate the sea in front of the sea of God, Varuna.
The Siege of Lanka
- Ravana failed to seize the messenger since Angada proved too powerful to subdue. As soon as Angada came back, Rama attacked the city since he tried to deemed that there was no redemption
- I was surprised when Indrajit made Rama and Lakshmana passed out by using poison. Garuda showed up and cured them
- Kumbakarna made an epic appearance but was killed off too quickly in my opinion by Rama. It depicted that he killed thousands of monkeys and almost finished off Surgreeva but that was it
- All this chaos for Sita. Story is similar to the background of Troy in a sense that a great war broke out over a single girl
Rama and Ravana in Battle
- God's helped out Rama to put an end to Ravana
- This part of the book is very epic as the scale of the battle covers whole earth
- Eventually Rama is announced victor when he kills off Ravana
The Coronation
- Rama tells Sita to leave if she wanted to. Makes no sense since he started a war to get her back
- Sita jumps into a fire to prove her innocence and love. Another version shows her disappearing into the fire and Rama regrets accusing her of her innocence since she does not come back. Read an interesting article that this could have cause a long time tradition in India called Sati, which is burning of a widow when her husband dies. Horrible tradition.
Bibliography: R.K Narayan, The Ramayana
- Hanuman wrecked Lanka but Ravana asked Maya to rebuild it
- Ravana's council asks to seek and kill Rama and his brother
- Vibishana tries to speak reason but was ignored. He leaves his brother and join Rama
Across The Ocean
- Surgreeva and Jambava did not trust Vibishana
- Hanuman is portrayed very modest in this chapter because he didn't speak up until Rama asked him to do so.
- Hanuman trusts Vibishana since he spared Hanuman when he was initially captured by Ravana in Lanka
- Rama ordered everyone to treat Vibishana as a leader of Lanka in exile.
- Rama possesses immense power since he threatened to evaporate the sea in front of the sea of God, Varuna.
The Siege of Lanka
- Ravana failed to seize the messenger since Angada proved too powerful to subdue. As soon as Angada came back, Rama attacked the city since he tried to deemed that there was no redemption
- I was surprised when Indrajit made Rama and Lakshmana passed out by using poison. Garuda showed up and cured them
- Kumbakarna made an epic appearance but was killed off too quickly in my opinion by Rama. It depicted that he killed thousands of monkeys and almost finished off Surgreeva but that was it
- All this chaos for Sita. Story is similar to the background of Troy in a sense that a great war broke out over a single girl
- God's helped out Rama to put an end to Ravana
- This part of the book is very epic as the scale of the battle covers whole earth
- Eventually Rama is announced victor when he kills off Ravana
The Coronation
- Rama tells Sita to leave if she wanted to. Makes no sense since he started a war to get her back
- Sita jumps into a fire to prove her innocence and love. Another version shows her disappearing into the fire and Rama regrets accusing her of her innocence since she does not come back. Read an interesting article that this could have cause a long time tradition in India called Sati, which is burning of a widow when her husband dies. Horrible tradition.
Bibliography: R.K Narayan, The Ramayana
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