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Reading Notes: Tiny Tales, Ramayana, Part B


Rama and Sita: Wikimedia

PLOT: Most of Part B contains stories following Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana, after Rama is exiled from Ayodhya. Throughout these stories Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana meet different creatures and travel through different places. Some of the creatures/people they met: 

  •  The goddess of sleep, Nidra-Devi
  • Rishi Sutikshna
  • The Ashram of rishi Sharabhanga
  • Tumburu cursed to live as a fierce rakshasa 
  • (they heard) Apsaras
  • Agastya
  • Indra
  • Anasuya, wife of Atri
  • and more....
Some of these stories also included mini stories, like the story of the Five-Apsaras Lake, A hermit who Indra tricked into losing his powers, and the story about the Ilvala and Vatapi brothers. 

When I visualize these stories they look like a quest, with many different settings and checkpoints. I feel that these stories are leading to a specific point, a climax, that hasn't been reached yet but is approaching quickly. 

Part B also ends on a "cliff-Hanger" being that Sita was just kidnapped by Ravana and now Rama must find her. 

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Laura Gibbs, Tiny Tales from the Ramayana

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