Doubts and Discussions from the Ramayan - Page 35

Originally posted by: Vibhishna

Thank you Chandraketu, ananyacool and chen2chic for the information on Kaushalya and Sumitra. I never knew half of those facts.

Chandraketu, congrats on hitting more than 800!

Ananya, congrats on making 500!

Mandodari ji, congrats of hitting 300!

chen2chic, congrats on reaching 100!

Great going, friends!

⭐️

Congratulations everyone above (aside from myself) for their respective milestones. Quite interesting to see so many milestones hit simultaneously.

Vibs, you're just 19 short of 500 yourself. I'm rooting for you & Ananya to both hit goldie before me😆👏

Originally posted by: Chandraketu

Congratulations everyone above (aside from myself) for their respective milestones. Quite interesting to see so many milestones hit simultaneously.

Vibs, you're just 19 short of 500 yourself. I'm rooting for you & Ananya to both hit goldie before me😆👏

Originally posted by: chen2chic

Thankyou! Can't believe I made it to 100 in a week, well almost...

Prompted by Ananya, I happened to google Ramakatha rasavahini and found this website vahini.org It has the details of Dasaratha' wedding with Kausalya and mention of his wedding to Sumitra. As per this Sumitra is from Kashi while Dasaratha's mother Indumathi was from Magadh.

And Ananya Congo..........yippee.....👏

Indumati, as per Kalidas's Raghuvansa, was from Vidharbha. There is that story that shortly after her Swayamvar and marriage to Aja, the other suitors, who were all rulers that Raghu had subjugated, tried to take their revenge on Aja by starting a battle against the wedding party. Leaving Indumati in the care of some officials, Aja fought a tough battle, and finally used a javelin given to him by a Gandharva that put all his enemies to sleep (not kill them). Once that was done, he and Indumati returned to Ayodhya, and shortly thereafter, Raghu handed over the kingdom to them.

Sumitra, you could be right about. Just that a careful reading of the Valmiki site has 1-13-26 listing the rulers of Kosala & Magadh in the same verse. While it's true that due to Kaikeyi's status as favorite, Kekaya was mentioned first (1-13-24), there is nothing to suggest that Dasharath prefered Kaushalya to Sumitra or vice versa. Therefore, it could be implicitly implied that the rulers of Kosala & Magadh were mentioned as Dasharath's in-laws.

Originally posted by: Chandraketu

Okay, thanks for this link.

Indumati, as per Kalidas's Raghuvansa, was from Vidharbha. There is that story that shortly after her Swayamvar and marriage to Aja, the other suitors, who were all rulers that Raghu had subjugated, tried to take their revenge on Aja by starting a battle against the wedding party. Leaving Indumati in the care of some officials, Aja fought a tough battle, and finally used a javelin given to him by a Gandharva that put all his enemies to sleep (not kill them). Once that was done, he and Indumati returned to Ayodhya, and shortly thereafter, Raghu handed over the kingdom to them.

Sumitra, you could be right about. Just that a careful reading of the Valmiki site has 1-13-26 listing the rulers of Kosala & Magadh in the same verse. While it's true that due to Kaikeyi's status as favorite, Kekaya was mentioned first (1-13-24), there is nothing to suggest that Dasharath prefered Kaushalya to Sumitra or vice versa. Therefore, it could be implicitly implied that the rulers of Kosala & Magadh were mentioned as Dasharath's in-laws.

Originally posted by: Chandraketu

Congratulations everyone above (aside from myself) for their respective milestones. Quite interesting to see so many milestones hit simultaneously.

Vibs, you're just 19 short of 500 yourself. I'm rooting for you & Ananya to both hit goldie before me😆👏

Originally posted by: bharat999

whrs da party?
on the ground floor!!!!!!!!!😆

Originally posted by: rajnish_here

in every doubt i forgot to mention, whether you want scientific reply or not😃, i myself in delima now science cannot answer most of the things and scriptures indeed cannot answer many things, one request to all of you,( as i am student of science as well) should i open another thread to come to conclusion or rational discussion of our scriptures related to present science😊, or continue our discussion here, i need all of yours suggesion here😊

Originally posted by: Chandraketu

Congratulations everyone above (aside from myself) for their respective milestones. Quite interesting to see so many milestones hit simultaneously.

Vibs, you're just 19 short of 500 yourself. I'm rooting for you & Ananya to both hit goldie before me😆👏