Week 7: Reading Diary B (The End)

Buck's Ramayana
Pages 374-432:

• Flying back towards Ayodhya, Rama shows Sita all the locations and events that occurred on their way to her rescue. 
• Rama then sends Hanuman ahead to tell Bharata of their return, who was extremely glad to find out about their return.
• The coronation begins soon after Bharata ties the sandals back on to Rama's feet. Then all these gifts come for Rama and Sita.
• Gossip about Sita spreads throughout the Sita after about 10,000 years when she is pregnant with a child. They gossip about how Rama let her back after her living with Ravana, questioning her chastity. 
• Rama tells Lakshmana to take her to the Ganges and leaves her there. Lakshmana is conflicted but due to his loyalty to Rama, he takes her there. 
• Sita's banishment is seen as the continual of the curse where Vishnu was parted from his wife.
• The Ganges tries to get Sita to jump into the waters.
• Sita gives birth to her two sons Kusha and Lava in Valmiki's home in the forest.
• Rama plans a huge festival where he invites a lot of people including Sita's father. Shatrughna invites Valmiki—he doesn't know that Sita is with Valmiki. 
• Rama finally realizes that the two boys are his sons at the festival. They have been telling his story bit by bit each day, the festival lasting for a year.
• Sita, while proving her innocence, disappears for a thousand years.
• Time has a meeting with Rama. Lakshmana disturbs them during this meeting because of the hermit who wants to speak to Rama. Lakshmana has to die because of this and goes to Sarayu river where he dies. :(

Kusha and Lava: sons of Rama

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