Reading Notes: Pages 1-59
Important Notes:
- Valmilki turns into a poet because she curses the hunter of a dying bird and her curse comes out in a song format. Brahma tells the Ramayana to Valmilki who then in turn tells the Ramayana to Lava and Kush; the sons of Rama
- Ravana challenges Indra who then goes and begs Vishnu to incarnate himself and defeat Ravana
- The rahshasas are like 3 demon children. Vishnu kills Mali, but the other two escape to the Naga Kingdoms
- Sumali, one of the escaped demon children, sent his daughter Kaikasi to have Vishravas's babies. Four more rahshasas appeared. 10 headed Ravana, giant Kumbhakarna, good guy Vibhishana, and demon-daughter Shurpanakha.
- Ravana was a demon of many powers. Only thing that could defeat him was a human. Ravana was given the city of Lanka by Vaishravana and got married and had a son named Meghanda
- Ravana caused a lot of chaos and pain. Even when Vaishravana asked him to stop, he didn't. Instead he went and attacked Mount Kailasa where Vaishravana was staying..
- Ravana ended up getting cursed by Indra and by Shiva's bull, Nandi.
- Ravana tried being smart and attacking the King while he was bathing. King caught him and squeezed him with his 50 arms
- Ravana conquered Yama, Surya, Chandra, and almost Amaravati. Indra was captured by Ravana's son and thus got the name Indrajit.
- Rama becomes Vishwamitra's student
- Rama releases Ahalya from her curse that was placed on her by her husband who caught her in bed with Indra
- Rama breaks the bow of Shiv and is now allowed to marry Sita. Rama's 3 other brothers also marry girls from the same family as Sita. Then Dasharatha brings his sons and their wives back to Ayodha.
Thoughts and Predictions:
- Why does Rama exile Sita because of gossip? I definitely thought their love was truer and more mature than that.. I wish there was more on why Rama exiled her instead of confronting her for the truth.
- How did a random "good demon" appear from demon Sumali's daughter and Vishravas? This makes me want to do some genetics and find out the probability of a demon girl and a good guy getting married and looking at the odds of the child becoming a demon or not.
- I think that Ravana is such a trouble maker. I feel like he has no morals or ethics. Trying to harm someone that gave you the city you live in is super messed up.. I'm glad he got cursed. Hopefully Karma gets to him
- I hate how Narada is such an instigator. I feel like Narada is constantly starting fights and urging Ravana to challenge other gods and characters
- That family marriage was really sudden and weird. It's crazy how that worked out and how all 3 brothers found enough girls in that family to marry them.
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