Week 5 Story: Rama's Exile

When a new King was crowned, Rama was sentenced to exile by him. The king was threatened by Rama, for if Rama would have tried to take the crown, he would have succeeded. However, instead of fighting the exile, Rama accepted it. His lover, Sita begged and pleaded with Rama to allow her to accompany him. But Rama believed the woods to be too dangerous for her. He told her of all the wild animals, poisonous snakes, lack of food, water, and the many other dangers that awaited him in the forest.
 But Sita simply looked at him with tears in her eye and said, “As long as you are with me, there is no evil that I shall fear”.
She told Rama of the prophesy she received numerous times as a child by many seers, that she would one day live out in the woods. She told Rama that being with him was heaven and hell did not exist. And so, they set off together into the woods.
It was not just Sita who wished to follow Rama into his exile, but also Lakshman. Lakshman vowed to set out before Rama and gather roots and fruits that would be needed to survive. He did not wish for Rama or Sita to have any hardships in the woods, and he wished to do all the work for them. Rama Lakshman to bring him weapons as a bridal gift. After much time, the three said their goodbyes to their respective families and set out into the woods, where they would share in Rama’s exile.




Rama and Sita


Author's Notes: This story was a little hard to read. Not necessarily because I chose to read an online version, but the translation was to "old english" so there were a lot of Thous and Thy's and similar vocabulary. However, I did my best to share with everyone the main points of the story as best as I could. As usual, I did not really change anything about the story, and part of it along side with wanting to share the original is as I said before, the story was not easy to read. I was able to make out many of the main points which is why I chose to share those with the reader. Anyways, hope you enjoy it as I'm sure it's not my best work.


Bibliography: Bibliography: Source  Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists: Ramayana Sister Nivedita 1914



Comments

  1. rosa trnaFebruary 20, 2018 at 12:43 PM

    Hi Jake! I agree that a lot of the stories took me a while to read and get into because I would stumble upon words that I’m not used to reading in the stories and I would have to stop and look up names or places that I had never heard of. I’m glad that you were able to lay down the main framework of the story.

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  2. UnknownFebruary 24, 2018 at 9:55 PM

    I enjoyed your story Jake, you made it very easy to read. I often have found it difficult to read some of these Epics because of the unfamiliar words. After going back and looking at the original I would say you achieved your goal of pulling out the main points while making for an easy read. I think it would be interesting to see this story from the perspective of one of the characters. Maybe from Rama's perspective would be a fun story to read in my opinion.

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  3. UnknownFebruary 25, 2018 at 9:14 PM

    Hey Jake! You did a good job summarizing the original points of the story. Rewriting it seemed to make it easier for you to digest the difficult source that you read. I feel as though there were differences between the versions of the Ramayana that we read. In the version I read, it was the existing king that was forced to exile Rama, and the soon to be new king did not desire to take the throne from him. From what I have seen concerning these epics there is a large amount of variety in the stories that are told, and even more so they are all considered to be correct. A concept that is very difficult to wrap your mind around!

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