The start of DKDM Fiction I mean Ramayan - Page 9

but by the looks of it-ALL Mytho shows are Bimaar with this same Bimaari...

Oh well!!

the 1000 Raavan version...errr

how did so many heads fit ONE Ravan??

the way 1000 arms fit sahastrabahu🤣

and those who love have right to criticize also

For 100 heads, Ravan's heads could be arranged in a 10x10 array, but then 64 of the heads would probably have to be facing upwards - otherwise the inner 8x8 heads would only be seeing the other heads. So the 100 headed Ravan would be seeing things on all 4 directions, as well as above (and may be below as well, if some of the heads faced downwards. Another way is to have his heads arranged in the shape of a square, w/ 50 of them facing front and 50 back. 😆

For the 1000 heads, it gets more complicated. You now have a 10x10x10 array, let's say arranged 3 dimensionally - imagine in the shape of a cube. Each side of the cube is the 10x10 heads, and so, you'd have something like this, where o represents a head facing forward and X represents a head facing diagonal (like if Ravan is facing north, the Xs on his left will face NW and the Xs on his right will face NE. And so on w/ all 6 sides. I've represented the corner heads by C, for reasons I'll describe below

Cx...xC

Xo...oX

Now this array of heads will be there on all 6 sides, facing up, down, and all the 8 directions. In fact, if one likes, one could even have the corner Xs facing something like NE up, so that instead of dasho-disha, one will have 36 dishas - 8 around him, 9 above and 9 below 😆

Now, for his 64 heads that face below, one slight complication does arise - how would they be attached to his neck? The only thing I can think of is that Ravan's neck would be like the core of a Rubik's cube, w/ all the heads attached. Actually, at this rate, I think it would save a lot of geometric complications if his heads were just wirelessly connected to his body 😆

But now we get to the inner heads - the ones that don't face anything outside at all. There would be 8x8x8 or 512 of them that won't see anything at all. Now the deal w/ these heads is that they would all be obstructed by Ravan's surface heads (I'll give you a minute while you choke on these concepts 😆), and so they may as well be deaf, dumb and blind, b'cos there is no point in them hearing, saying or seeing anything, since all they would be hearing, saying or seeing would be Ravan's other heads. So maybe he'd do his own internal thinking there and nothing else, and w/ all that brainwork, he ought to - theoretically at least - be formidable.

Another alternative - instead of arranging those heads in the shape of a cube, they could be arranged in the shape of a 14 sided polyhedron - the cube, and w/ the 8 corners shaved into a triangular surface, so that more heads can be exposed there. That would probably allow better room for those other heads to breathe 😆

All of the above would be a lot more interesting than a boring 32x32 2 dimensional array.

Hope I've gotten everyone's heads whirling after all of these 😈😆

Even if they take a story from that they are mixing with another story from somewhere else

If you mix snow white and Cinderella there is bound to be cristicisn

yes mine definately😛

I would imagine that the earliest of the Puranas would be most authentic. In the case of the Puranas, traditions do vary as one goes around, so you have the Skanda Purana describing Kartikeya's war w/ Tarakasura, and the Kanda Purana describing his war w/ Surapadman. And so on.

In case of Ramayan, it's more or less an open & shut case. Valmiki was a contemporary of Rama, so only his works made any sense. In fact, Dr RC Majumdar used Valmiki as his source to describe what took place in that era in his volume 'The Vedic Age'. Note that in Valmiki, while Rama's divinity is unquestioned, there are no miracles: Ahalya was not turned into a stone, but simply paralysed, and the touch of Rama unfroze her. There was no Lakshman rekha in Valmiki, nor was there Rama's healing Sugreev just by touching him after his battle w/ Vali. In fact, in Valmiki, Rama never knew that he was an avatar of Vishnu, which was essential to his success against Ravan, since Ravan's boon inured him against Vishnu as well, in addition to others. In fact, that is the biggest fundamental difference b/w Valmiki and all the others, which is why Valmiki has been sourced as a historical work and the others, be it Vyasa's Adhyatma Ramayan, Tulsidas, Kamban and so on, haven't.

There is another contemporaneous version of the Ramayan, but one that I've not seen or read anywhere, but I did see a reference to it once. It's a version written by Sage Vaishistha. Now, since he was Rama's guru, it would make sense that he would have a first hand account of everything that happened, similar to Valmiki. So if I were to read his work and see a difference from Valmiki, then I would really wonder who is right. But not when it's a question of Valmiki vs Swami Ananda, Tulsidas, Kamban, Krittivas or anyone else.

If you see the link I provided in the last page or so on what's there in the Ananda Ramayan, you can decide whether you think it's a legitimate source to use in any serial. For instance, in that book, Rama asks Lakshman to kill Sita and bring him back her arm. Lakshman gets Vishwakarma to make an arm exactly like Sita and brings it back to Rama. Maybe DkDM could show that as well, as a part of Vrinda's curse?