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Ooh that's neat. Did it help tho?

Originally posted by: Viswasruti

Here is the story Pro--- It may be a hypothesis or maybe a fact.

According to the Story known to me, Chess was created by Ravana's wife Mandodari As we know according to Ramayana, Ravan mostly was indulged in wars with other Kings. So Mandodari created the game of Chess to complete the fun of war for Ravan.

Here are a few interesting stories about Mandodari from Google.

Though Valmiki's Ramayana does not record Mandodari as being the mother of Sita, some later adaptations of the Ramayana depict Mandodari as the mother of Sita or at least the cause of the latter's birth.

The Adbhuta Ramayana narrates: Ravana used to store the blood of sages he killed in a large pot. The sage Gritsamada was practicing penance to acquire the goddess Lakshmi as his daughter. He stored milk from Darbha grass and purified it with mantras in a pot so that Lakshmi would inhabit it. Ravana poured the milk from this pot into his blood pot. Mandodari is frustrated seeing the evil deeds of Ravana, so she decides to commit suicide by drinking the contents of the blood-pot, which is described to be more poisonous than poison. Instead of dying, Mandodari gets pregnant with the incarnation of Lakshmi due to the power of Gritsamada's milk. Mandodari buries the fetus in Kurukshetra, where it is discovered by Janaka, who named her Sita.[16][17]

The Devi Bhagavata Purana says: When Ravana wants to marry Mandodari, Maya warns him that her horoscope indicated her first-born would destroy her clan and should be killed. Ignoring Maya's advice, Ravana buries his first child by Mandodari in a casket in Janaka’s city, where it is discovered and grew up as Sita.[16] Jain adaptations of the Ramayana like Vasudevahindi, Uttara-Purana, and others also state that Sita is the daughter of Ravana and Mandodari, and is abandoned when she is prophesied to be the cause of the end of Ravana and his family.[18]

In the Malay Seri Rama and the Indonesian-Javanese Rama Keling, Ravana wants to possess Mandodari, the mother of Rama but instead marries a pseudo-Mandodari, who looks like the real one. Rama's father has a union with this pseudo-Mandodari, resulting in the birth of Sita, who is nominally Ravana's daughter.[19]

According to the Ananda Ramayana, king Padmaksha had a daughter named Padma - an incarnate of the goddess Lakshmi. When her marriage is organized, Rakshasas (demons) kill the king. The grief-stricken Padma jumps into fire. Ravana discovers her body, which had turned into five jewels, in the fire and takes it to Lanka sealed in a box. Mandodari opens the box and finds Padma inside it. She advises Ravana to cast off the box containing the ill-fated Padma, who led to the doom of her father. When the lid of the box is closed, Padma curses Ravana that she will return to Lanka and cause his doom. Ravana buries the box in the city of Janaka, who discovers Padma and brings her up as Sita.[1

Did Ravana know that Sita is his daughter?

Originally posted by: vyapti

Did Ravana know that Sita is his daughter?

Sita is said to be the daughter of Ravana's queen Mandodari. It was predicted that the first child of Mandodari would bring annihilation to the family. Hence, Ravana deserted the child when she was born.

https://detechter.com/was-sita-a-daughter-of-ravana/

https://www.speakingtree.in/allslides/sita-was-the-daughter-of-ravana

In Ramayana that used to air with Gurmeet Choudhary,I saw an episode where Ram was going through proceedings of his daily court . A great sage was seated in his court. Then a king of a place comes to visit Rama in the court and then leaves .This king did not notice the sage but the sage was angry that he was not wished by this king. He threatens to never come to Rama's court because of this insult. Ram begs pardon from the sage and vows to bring head of the king who did not wish the sage. Soon Ram beheads this king and offers the head to this sage to pacify his anger.

Can anyone throw some light on this ? I never understood why Rama did this .

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Originally posted by: MagadhSundari

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Hey, Lola, on your YouTube page, didn't you have a missing scene of Bharat refusing to enter Kaikeyi's chamber, and Rama convincing him after telling him that he got Dasharath to forgive Kaikeyi for banishing him? I had a look at your page, since I've been re-watching both this as well as the Ananda Sagar Ramayan, and that particular one seems to be gone.

Originally posted by: .Vrish.

Hey, Lola, on your YouTube page, didn't you have a missing scene of Bharat refusing to enter Kaikeyi's chamber, and Rama convincing him after telling him that he got Dasharath to forgive Kaikeyi for banishing him? I had a look at your page, since I've been re-watching both this as well as the Ananda Sagar Ramayan, and that particular one seems to be gone.

I had the Manthara one, a fellow youtuber priyadarshi has the Kaikeyi one... here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUePX2RB1Rw

He's also digitized and posted from the VHS tapes directly for the majority of the series (it had 26 cassettes, he's done maybe 18 of them). Enjoy!

Speaking of deleted scenes, I want to use the momentum of this retelecast to get the Sagars and Doordarshan to finally release a proper collectors' edition DVD set of both Ramayan and Shri Krishna with all deleted scenes restored. It's kind of ridiculous that we get additional deleted scenes in DVDs for normal movies, but for these classics they went and deleted existing scenes. Can we all band together and make this happen?!

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