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  Ramayana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dasaratha, forced by one of his wives Kaikeyi commands Rama to relinquish his right to the throne for thirteen years and go into exile by his father.
Bharata is born to Queen Kaikeyi, and twins, Lakshmana and Shatrughna, are born to Queen Sumitra.
However, Kaikeyi's jealousy was aroused by her evil maid Manthara, because the son of Kausalya and not her own son Bharata, at that time absent from the city, was to be made king.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ramayana   (5944 words)

  
 Introduction to Ramayana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Kaikeyi the mother of Bharatha did not like this idea.
She asked that her son Bharatha should be made as the king of Ayodhya and Rama should be sent to forest for fourteen years.
Rama understanding the predicament of his father, who loved him most, agreed to the conditions of mother Kaikeyi.
www.e-prarthana.com /hinduism/articles/216/1/Introduction-to-Ramayana   (1788 words)

  
 Bibliography: Disabilities and Childhood in the Middle East and South Asia (N-Z)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
94-102 and end-notes), sowing mistrust in Queen Kaikeyi and plotting the exile of Rama.
Persuaded by Manthara, Kaikeyi praises her (Sarga 9, 28-39) suggesting that "this huge hump of yours, wide as the hub of a chariot wheel - your clever ideas must be stored in it" (p.101), and promising to have the hump anointed with liquid gold and to give Manthara her own hunchback maidservants.
Manthara's hump and her reasons for taking revenge on Rama; Dasaratha's accidental killing of a boy who supported aged, blind parents; the blindness of that boy's father had arisen from his revulsion when washing the legs of a sage who suffered from elephantiasis; Kaikeyi had also been cursed for mocking an aged, infirm, hearing-impaired Brahmin.
www.socsci.kun.nl /ped/whp/histeduc/mmiles/mesabib4.html   (9980 words)

  
 Hindutva Series : The Kshatriyas - The Martial Caste among the Hindu Community in India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The following anecdote from the Ramayana illustrates the role of the Ashvamedha sacrifice.
As we know Shri Ram, the eldest son of Dashratha the King of Ayodhya was banished for fourteen years from his kingdom due to the machinations of his step mother Kaikeyi.
In exile Rama's wife Sita is kidnapped by the Demon King Ravana and to liberate Sita from Ravana's clutches, Rama had to raise an army with the help of the monkey King Hanuman.
www.hindutva.org /castekshatriya.html   (3109 words)

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