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Originally posted by: Brahmaputra

😲 Ravana raped Nala-Kubera's wife? That I am coming across for the first time. I like Rama more. But cannot take such a stupidity on Ravana. Had he already been a rapist, why did he wait for Seetha to accept him herself? I don't get that. I too am not much aware of Valmiki Ramayna. I have read only in bits and pieces. So not sure whether it is a part of it.

Originally posted by: Brahmaputra

@Anu - Ramayana actually has only five Kandas. Even Bala Kanda is a later addition, formed from some parts of original Ayodhya Kanda and other irrelevant stories, say many scholars.

@amrita - AFAIK, Seeta did not enter fire as per the version MB Vana Parva has and in Valmiki Ramayana, she entered fire and Agni deva appears holding her. This was before Rama returning Ayodhya after killing Ravana. When Rama sees Seetha he tells her that he came Lanka and killed Ravana only to show the world he had been a dutiful husband and now she was free to choose even a monkey or rakshasa as her husband for Rama did not want her anymore as she had spent pretty good time in Lanka. To this, Seetha gives a taunting and mocking reply, asks Lakshmana to prepare a pyre and jumps in. But there are practical difficulties to believe this.(a tiresome task to type that right now) So I consider this jumping in fire was a finding of later male chauvinists who did not want to believe Rama accepted Seetha as she was.

Originally posted by: Brahmaputra

Fearless, steadfast, Karn never backs down - A witty cynic teenager who hangs around with his band of boys, killing time & smartly fighting rival gangs. === This show is still stuck here.😆

Originally posted by: Brahmaputra

@Anu - Ramayana actually has only five Kandas. Even Bala Kanda is a later addition, formed from some parts of original Ayodhya Kanda and other irrelevant stories, say many scholars.

@amrita - AFAIK, Seeta did not enter fire as per the version MB Vana Parva has and in Valmiki Ramayana, she entered fire and Agni deva appears holding her. This was before Rama returning Ayodhya after killing Ravana. When Rama sees Seetha he tells her that he came Lanka and killed Ravana only to show the world he had been a dutiful husband and now she was free to choose even a monkey or rakshasa as her husband for Rama did not want her anymore as she had spent pretty good time in Lanka. To this, Seetha gives a taunting and mocking reply, asks Lakshmana to prepare a pyre and jumps in. But there are practical difficulties to believe this.(a tiresome task to type that right now) So I consider this jumping in fire was a finding of later male chauvinists who did not want to believe Rama accepted Seetha as she was.

Originally posted by: amritat

Actually...as per my friend who has read that book...Ma Sita did not give Agni Pariksha right away.
Lord Ram did not ask her to give Agni Pariksha then...
It was only after this drawing incident that she was asked to give Agni Pariksha...

I dont know wat is true... 😭

Seems to me like another Jambu fruit.

I had lost respect for Devdutta Pattanaik the day I heard that in his book he had made Lord Krishna scold Draupadi for rejecting Karna n blamed all her misery for that one insult.

Well...had it been a random novelist then we could have called it 'creative liberty'.
But Devadutta Pattanaik is a well-known mythologist n a scholar who has done research for years.
So much so that he has even concluded that the Bhagavad Gita is a later addition.

Someone who knows SO MUCH and considers Indra, etc as a post n not one God...who knows Bhagavad Gita is a later addition, does not know that Sutaputra comment is a later addition too...Huh!!

On top of that it is he who had suggested(if I am not wrong) that Draupadi kicked out her other co-wives from Indraprastha...something which I never found in the epic...please correct me if I am wrong.
His blogs are quite famous n the perfect agent for brainwashing novice readers.

Originally posted by: Sabhayata

Devdutt Patnaik in both his books Jaya and Sita mentions incidents and stories from other versions ,folktales and plays as well

And he even mentions in his notes that it is from which version or play

Originally posted by: Arijit007

what is the reason for spreadib such stories within the epics?