The scion of ikshvaku

hai SKR ians.

Originally posted by: Bdaygirl

hai SKR ians.

I know many of u have read this book. The scion of ikshvaku,the first part in RAmchandra series by Amish Tripati.

This is also a new narration on Ramayan which is really well told. I just loved the book and the author perspective and his new kind of projection of characters.

I just wanted to know u r's opinion on this book.

Just by curiosity

Please feel free to comment. And sorry if I told something wrong

I am reading it dear. Not yet completed. It has a fresh perspective. What I liked about the book is the description of law. It is done beautifully. Law has to be same.

Hi I haven't read this one so thanks for feedback

I have read the book😃

Originally posted by: shruthiravi

I am reading it dear. Not yet completed. It has a fresh perspective. What I liked about the book is the description of law. It is done beautifully. Law has to be same.

But my major disappointments with respect to the book are these

1) There was no need to bring a Nirbhaya like case in that book. It looked so out of place

2) Sita is Lakshmi, she is not Shakti. Giving Sita more of a Shakti feel than a Lakshmi feel didnt quite connect it

3) There was no need to mix Panchali swayamvar in Sita swayamvar.

Amish Tripathi's books ( I have read Shiva triology) though tries to give a contemporary twist to the mythology, unfortunately he is unable to traverse the grey in the epics. Those moral conflicts, decisions on moral conflicts etc..needs quite a lot of improvising.

Mostly he treats things black and white. Shiva trilogy end you can feel it. He tried to give a happy ending, not a logical ending.

@Agnesfan Lakshman is the only character he has kept more or less true to the epic. He has heavily butchered Urmila as an empty headed woman, whereas she is actually very strong willed

Originally posted by: shruthiravi

@Agnesfan Lakshman is the only character he has kept more or less true to the epic. He has heavily butchered Urmila as an empty headed woman, whereas she is actually very strong willed

I read the book immediately on releasing (I had placed prelaunch order) as I was eager to read it after I had read his Shiva Trilogy and loved them. However I was not so enchanted by this book as I was with the other series. I was OK with Ram and Sita to some extent but the way he treated the Rishis (Vashist & Vishwamithra) was beyond my limits. And I was laughing at Bharat's portrayal and how suspective Lakshman was about Bharat.

Yes Jaya, that law aspects, the adherence to law that is what kept me going with that book. Because you could see Ram always adhering to dharma, at any cost.