Ravana devises a plan to abduct Sita. He sends a magical golden deer which Sita desires. Rama and Lakshman go off to hunt the deer, first drawing a protective circle around Sita and warning her she will be safe as long as she does not step outside the circle. As they go off, Ravana who can change his shape appears as a holy man begging alms. The moment Sita steps outside the circle to give him food, Ravana grabs her and carries her off the his kingdom in Lanka.
A band of monkeys offer to help him find Sita. Ravana has carried Sita to his palace in Lanka, but he cannot force her to be his wife so he puts her in a grove and alternately sweet-talks her and threatens her in an attempt to get her to agree to marry him. Sita will not even look at him but thinks only of her beloved Rama. Hanuman, the general of the monkey band can fly since his father is the wind, and Hanuman flies to Lanka and, finding Sita in the grove, comforts her and tells her Rama will soon come and save her.
With his tail burning, Hanuman hops from house-top to house-top, setting Lanka afire. He then flies back to Rama to tell him where Sita is. A might battle ensues. Rama kills several of Ravana's brothers and then Rama confronts ten-headed Ravana. Ravana is known for his wisdom as well as for his weakness for women which may explain why he is pictured as very brainy.
Rama finally kills Ravana. Rama frees Sita. After Sita proves here purity, they return to Ayodhya and Rama becomes king. His rule, Ram-rajya, is an ideal time when everyone does his or her dharma and "fathers never have to light the funeral pyres for their sons.
This lesson focuses on how the Ramayana teaches Indians to perform their dharma. Encourage students to pick out examples of characters in the epic who were faithful to their dharma and those who violated their dharma.
Review with students the Indian concept of dharma. Remind them that dharma is like one's role in a play or position on a team. For the play to go well or for the team to win, each person must "stay in character" or "play his position. When people or things violate their dharma, things fall apart. As an alternative strategy, tell students that Rama, Bharata and Sita are very important in India because they always did their dharma.
Tell them to listen carefully to the story and then figure out what they think dharma means. Hand out the different visuals and ask groups of students to figure out what part of the story their picture illustrates. Get the students to tell the story again by describing what's happening in their pictures. Discuss how Rama, Sita and Bharata all did their dharma.
Ask students to explain in their own words what they think dharma means based on how the characters acted.
Was Rama a good son? A good husband? A good ruler? Was Bharata a faithful and trustworthy younger brother? Was Sita a faithful and loyal wife? Several characters violate dharma. How did Ravana violate the dharma of a faithful husband and a good king? How did the raksasa sister of Ravana violate her dharma? Based on this story, what is dharma?
Why do Indians consider it so important? Imagine if tree started to walk or apples to talk. Could society function if nothing had discrete properties and appropriate ways of acting? Review the concept of dharma and remind students that Indians consider doing one's dharma is one of the four main goals in life. Synopsis of the Ramayana Story 1. Procedure 1. Tell the story of the Ramayana to the students. Frustrated about the warnings, Roopesh hatched a plot to kill Lakshamna.
He then contacted his aide Hemanth Kumar and was successful in getting Lakshmana killed within two days of his release, after he was arrested with land mafia kingpin Mirle Vardaraju in December last year. Lakshman goes to the Sarayu river and gives up his life, to fulfill his brother's promise. As Lakshman is the incarnation of Sheh-Naag on whom Lord Vishnu rests, it was essential for Lakshman to die before Ram so that when Ram gives up his life and returns to Vaikunth as Vishnu, his seat is already ready.
At what age Rama died? Rama killed Ravana by the end of 14 years and returned back to Ayodha directly from Lanka on Pushpaka. So by the time Rama killed Ravana, he would be at 42 years old. Though Rama ruled the kingdom for 11 thousand years, the first 42 years of his life was full of miseries and adventures. How many wives did Rama have? Mr, C. R Sreenivas Iyengar, translation of valmiki Ramayan says; Though Rama had married Sita to be Queen, he married many other wives for sexual pleasure in accordance with royal customs Ayodha Kandam 8th chapter page 28 [The trem 'Rama's wives'' has been used in many places in Ramayana.
How did Rama die? In these revisions, the death of Sita leads Rama to drown himself. Through death, he joins her in afterlife. Rama dying by drowning himself is found in the Myanmar version of Rama's life story called Thiri Rama. Did Rama and Sita have a child? Kusha or Kusa Sanskrit:??? Their story is recounted in the Hindu epic, Ramayana and its other versions.
Kusha is said to be a Raghuvanshi Ikshvaku Suryavanshi. Why did Urmila not go with Lakshman? So, the reason Lakshmana didn't take his wife with him to the exile is that she could have been an obstruction in his future sexual affair with Seetha! Srimad Ramayana was silent on this issue. Neither Urmila's wish to accompany Lakshmana nor her name was mentioned in Ayodhya Kanda.
Did Rama have many wives? According to it, Rama is the son of Dasharatha, the king of Ayodhya, the modern Banares. In due course Rama was married to Sita. Rama who is belived to have one wife, Sita as per Tulsidas Ramayan, actually had many wives as mentioned in Valmiki Ramayan.
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