RAMAYAN DAILY DISCUSSION THREAD - Page 30

Originally posted by: Mandodari

Actually in Valmiki Ramayan, Bharat brings a golden paduka ( I think it was) and it was embedded with many precious gems. This paduka was fit for a king and Bharat brings that hoping to crown Ram and take him back to Ayodhaya. When Ram refuses, he asks Ram to step on the princely gem studded paduka for a minute and then places that paduka on his head. He does not take the paduka that Ram wears for the vanvas. I was very surprised when I was reading Valmiki Ramayan the other day. I always believed that Bharat took Ram's vanvas padukas with him because that is the way it is shown in the movies and serials.

Originally posted by: Mandodari

Actually in Valmiki Ramayan, Bharat brings a golden paduka ( I think it was) and it was embedded with many precious gems. This paduka was fit for a king and Bharat brings that hoping to crown Ram and take him back to Ayodhaya. When Ram refuses, he asks Ram to step on the princely gem studded paduka for a minute and then places that paduka on his head. He does not take the paduka that Ram wears for the vanvas. I was very surprised when I was reading Valmiki Ramayan the other day. I always believed that Bharat took Ram's vanvas padukas with him because that is the way it is shown in the movies and serials.

Originally posted by: Chandraketu

Agreed. However, while deviations are deviations, somehow, the 2 incidents you mention aren't as story altering as the one I cited about Duryodhan cremating Karna (and there are far more throughout the MBH). You might have picked a more stark example in Kumbhakarna falling asleep in battle, which was funny, yet story altering (unless any of the other translations have that), or Kaushalya, Sumitra & Urmila reconciling with Kaikeyi, or Shurpanakhas prominence in the Yudhya-kand.

At any rate, your original point is well taken.

Originally posted by: Vibhishna

The whole thing of all six of them asking for a job in the same place and the same time was a big clue. If people had paid attention to the terms of the exile and that it was the last year - the year they should be hidden in cities, they would have found out who they really were. Nakul, Sahadev, Yudhishtr and draupadi were all too prominent to have been mistaken for someone else. Yudhishtr was really intelligent. Nakul and Sahadev were too good with horses, cattle and weapons. Draupadi wore her hair loose at all times - as she had taken an oath not to bind it till she had the blood of the ones who humiliated her. And the incident when Draupadi called out to her 'five Gandharva husbands' was another clue.

Sita

Agreed! Didn't mean to participate in derailing the thread, just got carried away by the discussion on Krishna's adventures.

I've driven the topic back to Ramayan

Originally posted by: sita11

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Originally posted by: Mandodari

Another example of 'making things up' was Kaikeyi telling Bharat that she will take the Ayodhay sena and help Ram/Lakshman during the battle. Unless this episode and dialogue is present in some Ramayan, I cannot reconcile myself with the situation and dialogue they showed on screen. 😡

That's actually the best example, because it just demonstrates a shamelessness which Kaikeyi may likely not have had at that point in time. Particularly her comment to Bharat about how Rama struggling in battle would be good for him (Bharat) when it was ather behest that Rama had to leave, not Bharat's.

Originally posted by: Chandraketu

Like crocs?

Originally posted by: Chandraketu

Sita

Agreed! Didn't mean to participate in derailing the thread, just got carried away by the discussion on Krishna's adventures.

I've driven the topic back to Ramayan

Originally posted by: Vibhishna

Crocodiles??? Probably, but much more than that. I think princes and kings prefer deer, boars, bears, lions, tigers for game. If this is the case, I'd guess it was deer. Becasue deer would provide good meat and its skin is useful to.

My double entendre😆😆