Originally posted by: Chandraketu
Actually, when Kumbhakaran asked for his boon, Ravan was shocked and pleaded with Brahma to rescind it, and grant him something else. He also pointed out that anyone could murder Kumbhakaran while he was asleep. Brahma therefore granted that while he was asleep, and the one day in 6 months that he woke, he'd be unconquerable, but if anyone woke him up any other day, all bets were off. Ravan, in his humiliation and shock, forgot this when he issued orders to wake Kumbhakaran, and remembered it only after getting the news of Kumbhakaran's death, and was filled with remorse at having waking him at the wrong time.
On Indrajit's shakti, there are 2 versions of this. In Valmiki, it's actually Ravan who downs Lakshman after Indrajit's death with the Shakti, tries to lift him but fails, and does all sorts of tricks, like trying to get Surya-deva to rise early, and Hanuman imprisoning him under his armpit. In Tulsidas, it's Indrajit who downs Lakshman at the start of the war with the shakti, following which the whole story of Hanuman lifting the Dronagiri mountain appears, and this happens even before the naag-paash that was used to down Rama & Lakshman. In the previous serial, this wounding of Lakshman was shown towards the end, even after the naag-paash - thereby deviating from both scripts. I'm curious as to how the Sagars will do it this time.
Therefore, in addition to showing battles that didn't happen (Rama vs Indrajit), the Sagars are also shuffling the sequence of events as they happened (the episode of Mahiravan took place after the killing of Kumbhakaran and Indrajit, when Ravan was desperate for someone who could pull off what they couldn't, but here, it's shown happening even before the war).
