Everyone seems pleased. This plan fulfills the rules of dharma because an eldest son should rule and, if a son can take over one's responsibilities, one's last years may be spent in a search for moksha.
In addition, everyone loves Rama. However Rama's step-mother, the king's second wife, is not pleased. She wants her son, Bharata, to rule. Because of an oath Dasharatha had made to her years before, she gets the king to agree to banish Rama for fourteen years and to crown Bharata, even though the king, on bended knee, begs her not to demand such things. Broken-hearted, the devastated king cannot face Rama with the news and Kaikeyi must tell him.
Sita convinces Rama that she belongs at his side and his brother Lakshman also begs to accompany them. Rama, Sita and Lakshman set out for the forest.
Bharata, whose mother's evil plot has won him the throne, is very upset when he finds out what has happened. Not for a moment does he consider breaking the rules of dharma and becoming king in Rama's place. He goes to Rama's forest retreat and begs Rama to return and rule, but Rama refuses. Bharata then takes Rama's sandals saying, "I will put these on the throne, and every day I shall place the fruits of my work at the feet on my Lord. Rama and Lakshman destroy the rakshasas evil creatures who disturb the sages in their meditations.
One day a rakshasa princess tries to seduce Rama, and Lakshmana wounds her and drives her away. She returns to her brother Ravana, the ten-headed ruler of Lanka Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon , and tells her brother who has a weakness for beautiful women about lovely Sita. 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.
Vishnu and Laksmi. Birth of Rama. King Dasaratha's four sons. Demonesses at Ravana's Palace. Ravana loses his heads. By using this site, you agree we can set and use cookies. For more details of these cookies and how to disable them, see our cookie policy. Sign up for our e-newsletter. Search our website. Back to Image Gallery. Rama worships the god of the ocean Varuna, requesting him to make way for the army. Varuna informs Rama that within his army a monkey named Nala, the son of the divine architect Vishwakarma is blessed by his celestial father, and has the ability to create a huge bridge for the monkey army to cross over to Lanka.
In this exquisitely drawn page the artist depicts the scene when Nala has built a bridge across the vast ocean to Lanka, and an unending sea of monkeys traverse the bridge snaking into the horizon.
Within the mass of figures, Rama and his brother Lakhmana are highlighted as they ride on the backs of monkeys, with Rama seated on the back of the chief of the monkey army, the mighty Hanuman himself. The use of an oblique perspective with strong diagonals and the suggestion of receding planes and diminishing figures meandering into the horizon, impart a wonderful dynamism to the painting.
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