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I know it was a very typical daily soap thing that Dussharat kept the arrow locked in a room which no one was supposed to enter. However there is something that crossed my mind while watching the episode. No one can escape KARMA. Dussharat killed Sharvan Kumar accidentally but that didn't stop karma from giving the same fate to the King. He died in putra viyog like Sharvan's parents. This arrow, I believe sowed the seeds of Ram's exile. The promises he gave to Kaiyeki years before she used them to banish Ram were probably the fertilisers needed for the seed to grow.
What I like about the epic is that such small incidents played major roles in the story. Like death of Sharvan Kumar was not a momentous episode in the great epic but without that, without curse of Sharvan's parents Ram's exile might never have taken place. When you see the epics like Ramacharitramanas and Mahabharat as a whole you realise how small dots connected to form the bigger picture.
