Reading Diary B

A lot more information came from this version of the Ramayana that was from Sita's point of view.  This version focuses on Sita and how misfortunate her life seems, it focuses on her destiny as Ravana's ultimate destruction, however that makes her life full of unhappiness.  There are good times whenever she, Rama, and Lakshmana are in the forest  in their little hut and come to think of it that seems the only time she was truly happy except for right after their wedding.

In these last few scenes Ravana is killed with an arrow to the heart and all of Lanka is sad. Then as in the other version of the Ramayana, Rama tests Sita's purity and she walks into the fire to prove that she was still pure.  Then after they reach home, the citizens of Ajodhya whisper of Sita's possible impurity reach Rama and he decides that his people come before his queen.  So Rama asks his brother to take his PREGNANT WIFE and LEAVE her in the forest!  He left his pregnant wife in the forest alone by herself! So then she is found by Valmiki and he takes her in as his daughter and helps her raise her twin boys, and he becomes a poet of the Ramayana and so on.  Then Sita returns to Rama with her sons but asks the Earth to swallow her up when he asks her to prove herself again.  Her suffering and unhappiness is over.

There's also the addition of the story of Promila, the wife of Indraji and crown princess.  The whole scene is completely different from the public domain Ramayana.  It depicted Indrajit as a proud prince who spent time with his wife in their pleasure palace surrounded by a beautiful garden full of flowers.  His wife Promila was very beautiful and brave and she entered the city of Lanka following her husband by riding up to Rama on a charger and telling him that she will enter the city whether he wishes her to or not, and he allows her to enter the city.  In this version Vibhishana betrays Ravana and allows Lakshmana to enter a hidden door in a temple and kill Indrajit while he is trying to pray to the fire god Agni.  Promila is so loyal that she burns herself with her husband during his funeral!

(Indrajit)