It's kind of irrelevant I understand. Yet just a little history of Rama in Radha Krishna forum.
What to do this show is nonsense and there is nothing interesting to write about in it
So Raghu's son was Aja who had an amazing love story with Apsara Indumathi.
Indumathi and Aja fell in love and wanted to get married. Indra told Indumathi that you are an Apsara. You can spend time with a mortal man and bear his child but you cannot stay with him forever as you are immortal, you will always be this young beautiful girl and he will be a mortal affected by age eventually and will die so have your fling and come back before he gets old. Give him a son if he wants one, then you can come back and have a new love affair
But Indumathi decides she will become a mortal and only way for that to happen is to get cursed. She promptly gets to the task and gets cursed by one of the Rishis to be a mortal and know the pain of death.
She and Aja then get married live happily for a while and then have a son Dasrath. When Dasrath is 5 years old, Indu's curse gets her killed in an accident. She has to return back as Apsara to swarga.
Aja is distraught. He hands over Dasrath and his kingdom to Vashishtha and takes Sanyas and does Tapasya and eventually gets to go to swarga to be with Indumathi forever.
But at Ayodhya this causes a problem
Like the 5 tribes of Panchalas the suryavanshi were 3 tribes ruling together and living in extended joint family set up divided into three kingdoms Uttara Kosala capital at Ayodhya. Dakshina Kosala capital at Sravasti and Kasi capital at Kasi city
So after Aja abdicated his kingdom Uttara Kosala goes into the hand of his cousin.
When Dasrath grows up he married his two cousins daughter of king of Dakshina Kosala (Kousalya) and daughter of king of Kasi (Sumitra / Kasya)
However he doesnt have a son. Kousalya becomes mother of Shanta in some versions in many specially Valmiki Ramayana Shanta is biological daughter of Romapada's not adopted
He then marries Kaikeyi daughter of king Ashwapati of Kekaya at the time of war with Rakshasa, she becomes his charioteer and saves his life and general perception is she would be giving him the son who would rule Ayodhya
When that doesn't happen Rishyashringa is called to officiate Putrakameshti. It could have been a straight forward adoption of Rishyashringa and Shanta's sons or Niyoga.
Eventually 4 sons are born. The four sons have their own two sons each.
Rama's son Luva gets Ayodhya and Kusha gets Dakshina Kosala and establishes a new city Kushasthali there as his capital
Lakshman had two sons Angad and Chandra ketu they ruled over Karupada and Chandrakanta (Malwa in MP) basically Dandakaranya the place where they were exiled. This was Khara and Dushan's teritory
Bharat had two sons Pushkala (he established the city of Pushkalavati) and Taksha (he established Takshila) in the Kekaya kingdom that Bharat took over from uncle
Shatrughana's sons were Shatrughati and Subahu. His son Shatrughati ruled over Mathura after him while second son Subahu rules over a territory near modern day Vidhisha, both territories of Ravana's sister Kumbhinasi family
Edited by Chiillii - 4 years ago