Ramayana - Another Great Epic

[Raghu]

Raghu
He breaks the back of Kuni by sending arrows when he was just a boy.This is why she takes revenge on Rama by asking kaikeyi to make bharatha as king.

By man,i meant he never does any magic like Lord Krishna does.Krishna is a mayavi.Lord Rama faces all troubles like an ordinary man and overcomes them like ordinary men.

Viggop

Who was Kuni?

[jaiganes]

Rama is a paradox!
In one scene he sacrifices his throne and lved ones to go to the jungle at the behest of his father. In another scene he is seen losing all composure at the loss of Sita and even scolds Lakshmana for having lost guard and thereby losing sita.
He asks Ravana to comeback again another day since he(Ravana) had lost all his weapons, but kills Vaalee by hiding behind a tree. crowning "glory" is the "test by fire" of Sita.
In spite of all this what sets Rama apart is he accepts his mistakes readily.

[Thiru]

Raghu
He breaks the back of Kuni by sending arrows when he was just a boy.This is why she takes revenge on Rama by asking kaikeyi to make bharatha as king.

By man,i meant he never does any magic like Lord Krishna does.Krishna is a mayavi.Lord Rama faces all troubles like an ordinary man and overcomes them like ordinary men.

Viggop

Who was Kuni?

kuni is the one who instigates kaikeyi to ask for the boons to send Rama to the forest.. She's kind of God mother to Kaikeyi.. :)

[Raghu]

Raghu
He breaks the back of Kuni by sending arrows when he was just a boy.This is why she takes revenge on Rama by asking kaikeyi to make bharatha as king.

By man,i meant he never does any magic like Lord Krishna does.Krishna is a mayavi.Lord Rama faces all troubles like an ordinary man and overcomes them like ordinary men.

Viggop

Who was Kuni?

kuni is the one who instigates kaikeyi to ask for the boons to send Rama to the forest.. She's kind of God mother to Kaikeyi..

Oh Antha Old lady-a

[SRS]

Nice to see this thread here.

Since we are starting with Shri Ram:

Valmiki has recorded in Bal Kaand Sarga 19 and shloka 8 and 9 (1/18/8,9) that Shri Ram was born on the ninth tithi of Chaitra month when the position of different planets vis-a-vis zodiac constellations and nakshatras (visible stars) was as under :- 1 Sun in Aries ii) Saturn in Libra iii) Jupiter in Cancer iv) Venus in Pisces v) Mars in Capricorn vi) Lunar month of Chaitra vii) Ninth day after no moon viii) Lagna as Cancer (Cancer was rising in the east) ix) Moon on the Punarvasu (Gemini constellation & Pollux star) x) Day time (around noon)

Yr/Month of birth: January 10, 5114 BC

Place of Birth: Ayodha. Ayodhya was located over the banks of Saryu River with Ganga and Panchal Pradesh on one side and Mithila on the other side.

Lineage: Shri Ram belonged to the Surya Vansh and was the 64th ruler of this dynasty. The names and other relevant particulars of previous 63 kings are listed on in Ayodhya Ka Itihas written about 80 years back by Rai Bahadur Sita Ram and the ancestors of Shri Ram have been traced out as under: Shri Ram, S/o King Dashratha, S/o King Aja, S/o King Raghu, S/o King Dilip and so on.

[viggop]

Erudite persons can post about the avathara of Lord Vishnu as Rama.Why he did the things he did.

One important slokam in Ramayana is Aditya Hrudayam.I think Rama is apprehensive about war and Sage Agastya(mythological founder of Tamil language) recites the Aditya Hrudayam.

[Raghu]

Raghu
He breaks the back of Kuni by sending arrows when he was just a boy.This is why she takes revenge on Rama by asking kaikeyi to make bharatha as king.

Is that why she had bent back?

[viggop]

I think yes.It was Lord Ramam playful mischief which broke her back

[aravindhan]

crowning "glory" is the "test by fire" of Sita.

Compare this scene in the Kamba ramayanam and the Valmiki ramayanam sometime. They are quite different, and the differences are extremely interesting.

[Raghu]

crowning "glory" is the "test by fire" of Sita.

Compare this scene in the Kamba ramayanam and the Valmiki ramayanam sometime. They are quite different, and the differences are extremely interesting.

True I find the same in Mahabhartha as well, I mean the Tamil Version from Sanskrit Version.