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chapters 4, 5 and 6

RAMAYANARAMAYANA CHAPTER CHAPTER

NOTESNOTES

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Chapter 4Chapter 4•R

avana hears of brother’s death. Revenge=CAPTURE SITA

•Maricha objects claiming that it will destroy the city.

•Ravana feels that Rama is no match for his wit or strength.

•Maricha devises a plan.

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Chapter 4Chapter 4•M

aricha’s plan=to lure Sita with a beautiful golden and silver deer with antlers of sapphire and skin as soft as petals of flowers

•Sita sees the deer and wants it.

•Lakshmana tells Rama to beware of the deer. He felt is could be a rakshasas in disguise.

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Chapter 4Chapter 4•R

ama doesn’t heed the advice and asks Lakshmana to watch Sita.

•Rama follows the deer, shoots it and Maricha resumes his shape.

•Maricha disguises his voice as Rama’s and calls Lakshmana.

•Sita hears the cry and tells Lakshmana to find Rama.

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Chapter 4•L

akshamana refuses. Sita is angry. Lakshmana goes.

•Ravana watches Sita and disguises himself as a holy hermit. The forest knew of Ravana’s deception.

•Ravana approaches Sita, introduces himself and asks her to choose him as her love.

•Sita refuses. Ravana kidnaps her as she shouts for her husband and Lakshmana.

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Chapter 4•B

rahma is happy because he knows that Ravana will die.

•Sita throws her golden veil and jewels to the earth/monkeys.

•When Rama return Sita is gone.

•Sugriva, the monkey king, tells Rama of his wife’s kidnapping and agrees to help Rama.

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Chapter 4•H

anuman will be able find Sita.•R

ama gives Hanuman his signet ring to show Sita so that Sita knows that Hanuman comes to help her.

•Hanuman turns into a cat and enters Lanka but cannot find Sita.

•Sita is in the forest with Ravana. She refuses him. Hanuman whispers to her and gives her the signet ring.

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Chapter 4Chapter 4•S

ita asks Hanuman to give Rama a jeweled token.

•Ten months pass…

•Rama speaks to Hanuman about his wife.

•Sugriva and Rama lead the monkeys to the great sea.

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Chapter 5Chapter 5

•Kumbha-karna promises to support Ravana in his plight to destroy Rama.

•Vibhishana will not fight as he states,”The warrior who fights the right fight is doubly armed”

•Ravana banishes Vibhishana and he joins Rama.

Hanuman burns part of Lanka.

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Chapter 5Chapter 5•V

ibhishana becomes king after Ravana is defeated.

•Battle: might #1=Rama, #2=Ravana

•Rama fights Ravana on the back of Hanuman, demolishes chariot, breaks crown and wounds Ravana with arrows.

•Rama doesn’t kill Ravana because he is too weak to fight. Look for the example of flaw of pity.

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Chapter 5Chapter 5•K

umbha-karna joins Ravana to fight, kills hundreds of monkeys and refuses to fight Lakshmana so that he may save his strength for Rama.

•Rama tears off Kumbha-karna’s arms and with Indra’s great arrow severs his head from his neck.

•Lakshmana kills Ravana’s son.

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Chapter 5Chapter 5• R

ama v. Ravana•R

avana enters with a new chariot and horses.

•Indra resolves to help the righteous Rama by providing him with golden armor and a horse drawn chariot.

•Rama uses Vishnu’s bow in battle.

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Chapter 5Chapter 5•R

ama slices off all ten of Ravana’s heads but they continue to grow back.

•Brahma’s arrow kills Ravana as Rama shoots it through Ravana’s heart.

•Rama sends Hanuman to retrieve Sita.

•Rama tells Sita that she bears a moral stain because she has lived with another man.

•Rama explains that he must publicly renounce her.

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Chapter 5Chapter 5•S

ita asks her husband why he rescued her.

•She claims that she has not been unfaithful and that Rama must work to restore her honor.

•Sita enters the flames and disappears.

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Chapter 5Chapter 5•T

he gods come to earth.•S

ita passes the test of purity.•T

he exile is over.•D

asa-ratha speaks to Lakshmana asking him to take care of Rama. Dasa-ratha asks Sita to forgive Rama.

•Indra gives Rama a gift of renewed life for the dead who fought for his cause.

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Chapter 5Chapter 5•H

anuman requests eternal life to tell the tale.

•Rama and Sita reign as the King and Queen of Ayodhya for 10, 000 years.

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Chapter 6Chapter 6•S

ita becomes pregnant.•R

ama meets wise men at the Ganges River.•R

ama asks what his subjects think of him. •T

he wise men say that his subjects criticize Rama for taking back Sita.

•The wise men tell Rama to renounce Sita again but Rama knows that she is pure.

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Chapter 6Chapter 6•L

akshmana is to take Sita to Valmiki’s and leave her to rest as she is pregnant.

•Sita accepts her exile because it is her dharma.

•Sita gives birth to twins.

•Valmiki teaches the children to sing The Ramayana.

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Chapter 6Chapter 6•B

rahma requests that Valmiki put Rama’s story into beautiful verse.

•Valmiki creates The Ramayana.

•Years pass and Rama has a celebration for his subjects. Valmiki attends with Rama’s twin sons.

•Rama realizes that they are his children and speaks to Valmiki about Sita.

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Chapter 6Chapter 6•R

ama wants his wife back after she proves her purity again.

•Rama apologizes to Sita.

•Sita claims that it is time to leave her life behind.

•The earth opens, a golden throne rises and Sita leaves.

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Chapter 6Chapter 6•B

rahma tells Rama that he will rejoin Sita. They will live as Vishnu and Lakshmi.

•Rama and his brothers enter the afterlife as Vishnu.

•THE END!!