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Rama Returns back to Ayodhya and Maharishi Vasishta advices he get coronated immediately.

Rama agrees and All brothers, Rama, Lakshmana, Bharata and Shatrughna along with Vibheeshana and Sugreeva are finally have managala Snaana. Rama and Sita get Coronated in a great celebratory event.

Don’t miss out the phalashruthi this great epic and story offers for all who listen to it. With folded hands, I Thank all who took the interest to listen.

Jai Sri Rama

Ravana brings twice as much army with him. A war like no one can ever imagine takes place between Rama and Ravana..

Rama cuts off the head of Ravana 101 times.. hoping he would give up the fight and surrender. Finally, when clear that Ravana wouldn’t budge, Rama kills Ravana. He falls to the earth.

Gods including Bramha and Shiva shower blessings from the sky. Everyone is rejoicing the death of Ravana

Mandodari, wife of Ravana comes to the battle field and sheds lots of tears. She understands that Rama is Vishnu himself. Vibheeshana takes her back to the palace. All the last rites are done for Ravana.

Garuda comes and sprays Amruta because of which all the dead monkeys come back to life. A few Rakshasas come back to life too but would be better people under the king Vibheeshana

A voice from the sky calls Rama. Rama immediately identifies his father Dasharatha who was like a God. Dasharatha is very happy and offers a boon. Rama asks for forgiveness for their mother Kaikeyi and Bharatha.

Sita was brought. To stop the stampede, Rama asks Sita to walk down so everyone can have a glimpse of her. Rama asks her to take a test of fire. She does Agni pravesham and comes out successful.

Vibheeshana offers his pushpaka vimaana to take Rama back to Ayodhya quickly.

Kumbhakarna is woken up from his sleep for the sake of war. He creates a havoc amongst Rama’s army. Literally scooping up the monkeys and eating them or crushing hundreds under his feet. After speculating on what’s the best way to deal with such a huge enemy, Rama decides to tear him apart, part by part.

Ravana is feeling the heavy loss of his brother kumbhakarna and is loosing his confidence when Indrajit, the ever powerful son of Ravana steps in to help his dad.

Indrajit puts the entire army to sleep so he could buy time to do his Nikumbini yaaga, which would ensure he’s never defeated.

Lakshmana’s sleep is causing his heart rate dip to dangerous levels. Hanuman manages to wake up Rama who gets immediately worried about Lakshmana. The doctor from Rama’s kingdom, Sushena is brought in to treat Lakshmana. Sushena says the only way to save Lakshmana now, is to treat him before sunrise with a herb that’s available only in Himalayas

Hanuman flies to the Himalayas and brings in the mountain with the life saving herbs. Sushena wastes no time and treats Lakshmana who immediately recovers.

Vibheeshana urges that Lakshmana has very less time remaining to kill Indrajit as only a person who hasn’t slept for 14 years is able to kill Indrajit. Without wasting a second, despite his weakness from recovery, Lakshmana goes to the secret place where Indrajit’s yaaga is going on. They have a fearceful war and Lakshmana finally manages to kill Lakshmana.

Ravana is broke. He’s unable to accept his son is lost too. He finally decides to go in to the war himself with the reserve army.

Rama is unstoppable. He exhibits the peak of his valour, destroying crores and crores of Ravana’s army single handedly.

After talks with Angada failed, The war was inevitable. One of the major trouble for Ravana’s army is that the army on the other side is a completely untrained army whose main weapons were nails and teeth.

For the first 3 days, Ravana’s army was winning. On day 3, Indrajeet launches the Nagaastra. The snakes released from the weapon paralyses the entire Rama’s army. Seetha is brought to the battlefield to see Rama in the state. She’s distraught at the sight and is not able to fogive herself. Vibheeshana’s wife informs Sita that its not reality.

Majestic Garuda enters the battlefield and scares away all the snakes. Hanuman informs the recovered Rama that Sita was here. Rama strings his bow to generates the sound to ensure Sita he was alright.

Ravana was shocked to see they were alright now. Ravana enters the battlefield on Day 5 of the battle. Rama manages to Everything Ravana was wearing. His chariot, armour, crown and everything including his footware. Rama allows Ravana to leave the battlefield, rest and come back the next day.

Ravana’s ego is severely hurt. He’s unable to sleep for the night and decides to wake up his brother Kumbhakarna. Despite knowing that waking Kumbhakarna would mean his untimely death, Ravana decides to go ahead and take his help in the war.

Loads of different ways are engaged to wake up Kumbhakarna who finally does wake up for the smell of food.

After Vibheeshana’s Pattabhisheka, they decide that the best route to reach Lanka along with the huge army is to build a bridge across. Vibheeshana suggests its Rama’s turn to do Sharanagati to the sea God. Despite waiting for 3 days, nothing happens. Rama gets angry on Samudra, the God of sea and gets ready to leave an arrow to dry up the entire sea. Samudra appears immediately and asks sorry as he was too scared to come out.

Samudra suggests Rama and his army could bring in stones for the bridge. He would make sure they’d never sink. He also advises that Nala, the son of Vishwakarma has mastery in building bridges and so he take the lead in planning and building it.

The bridge gets build in 5 days. The entire Army now reaches the shores of Lanka at astonishing speed.

Ravana and Indrajeet are beyond surprised at the feat Rama and his army achieved. But still in denial mode.

Angada is sent as one last messenger to check if Ravana was to change his mind. But that never happened. Angada returns back. War is now unavoidable.

In this part, Yuddha Khanda starts. Rama along with Sugreeva, Jambavanta, Hanuman etc were discussing on the stratergy to reach Lanka asap. Rama wakes up very early next morning and starts walking towards the sea closest to reach Lanka. They take 5 days in total.

Meanwhile in Ravana’s court, Ravana and his ministers are speculating on what if more such monkeys land on Lanka.. would they really be able to handle? Kumbhakarna advices Ravana should not have taken Sita this far. VIbheeshana adds his observations and criticizes Ravana for abducting Sita. He insists Ravana approach Rama, make friends with him and return Sita with great respect.

Ravana is angered by Vibheeshana’s statements. Indrajeet criticizes his uncle to be a coward. Ravana ends up kicking his own brother. VIbheeshana immediately leaves the court and heads towards Rama along with 4 of his trusted friends.

Vibheeshana reaches the shores of the sea where Rama and his army are camped. He requests the monkeys to inform Rama of his arrival and that he’s willing to help Rama. Despite lots of opposing suggestions, Rama takes Hanuman’s advice and accepts friendship with Vibheeshana.

Rama also coronates Vibheeshana as the King of Srilanka

Hanuman sets off to start eating something out of the plush garden filled with fruit bearing trees, but he’s on to something more mischievous…. He starts destroying the personal garden belonging to Ravana. It came as a surprise to Ravana’s guards and army to see a monkey so powerful.

Ravana sends a sizeable army to catch the ‘Monkey’. Was enormously surprised to see that some of his best generals couldn’t stop him either. So, he finally sends his son Indrajit.

Ravana’s son Indrajit, with a history of having won over Indra was a very powerful man. He shoots a Bramhastra at Hanuman. But Hanuman had a boon that even the Bramhastra wouldn’t work on him. Out of respect to the weapon, Hanuman stops the destruction and surrenders. He’s now tied up and taken to Ravana’s court.

In the court, Ravan sees Hanuman. A conversation takes place between them in which Hanuman is advising Ravana to return Sita to Rama. Not to underestimate the power of Rama and his strength. He reminds Ravana that Rama has already killed a few whom Ravana couldn’t win over.

Ravana’s ego couldn’t accept praise for someone else. He is angry beyond control. And is ready to get Hanuman killed. Ravana’s brother Vibheeshana stops him and advices that messengers should never be killed and that there are other forms of punishing them. Its decided that Hanuman’s tail should be set on fire and so, it was set on fire.

Hanuman takes this as an opportunity, jumps out and uses the fire on his tail to set fire to every corner of Lanka. Somewhere in between, Sita is informed that Hanuman’s tail is set on fire. She prays to the lord of fire, Agni to not burn Hanuman.. suddenly Hanuman starts feeling the fire to be very cooling on is tail. He understands this must be some blessing from somewhere.

Finally, while cooling his tail in the sea, Hanuman suddenly realises Sita Mata is in the very Lanka that he set to fire. He flies immediately to check if she was ok…. And Yes, she was. She blesses him and asks him to return quickly with Rama.

Hanuman reaches the shores where his friends were waiting. He shouts again and again that he saw Sita. The entire group of monkeys is rejoicing his victory. They immediately reach Kishkinda. In the nearby forest, they drink honey and eat all they can. Finally, they’re summoned by Sugreeva to meet him and Rama immediately.

Hanuman relates Sita’s story and gives the choodamani Sita sent. Rama is overjoyed and Hugs Hanuman. The best gift anyone can receive from Rama.

Hanuman and Sita sit down to chat with each other.. Sita is very curious to know how Rama got in touch with the king of monkeys and she felt it rather strange that there could be friendship between Humans and monkeys.

Hanuman explains that Rama got in touch with Sugreeva, a king in exile, helped him get his kingdom back from his brother Vaali and so, now has the backing of the entire army of monkeys. Sita was very happy to hear that.

Even then, she continues to test Hanuman by asking him to describe how Rama and Lakshmana look. Hanuman began describing how beautiful Rama’s eyes are… Even the monkeys, which are always distracted stood still in admiration of Rama’s eyes.

Sita is now very convinced about Hanuman being a messenger from Rama.

Hanuman then gives her Rama’s ring. Sita feels very relieved to see it and narrates a story related to the ring.

She then tells him 2 other stories so Hanuman to relate it back to Rama when he’s back. She then hands him the choodamani that Rama made for her.

Its nearly evening now and Hanuman is too hungry. He requests if he’s ok to go and eat some fruits off the lovely garden. Sita.

Hanuman sits on the Pushpaka Vimaana and meditates on the Beeja mantra.. He then finds a little walk way from Ravana’s bedroom into his huge private garden, the Ashoka Vana. Hanuman discovers the Shimshupa Vriksha under which a really tired lady is sobbing. He sees she’s being guarded by loads of Rakshasis.

He sits on the tree looking down at the lady… He has a feeling it is Sita Maata. But he chose to observe her for a while. She’s constantly chanting Rama’s name.

Its very early in the morning when there’s a lot of noise. Hanuman sees that Ravana, along with a huge following of wives and servants is hurrying towards Sita. He’s constantly looking at Sita with Lust…. Asking her to give up waiting for Rama and just marry him. He’s ready to give up his riches and provide her with every possible pleasure the 3 worlds can offer her. He warns her that the one year he’s given her has only 2 more months to completion. Right after, if she still refuses, he could eat her up for breakfast.

Ravana keeps away from touching Sita as he had a curse. He would meet his death if he touched any woman against her will… this kind of saved Sita to some extent.

Sita now takes a blade of grass in her hand, turns her face away and shows it to Ravana, she says he’s worse than the blade of grass and he’s making a big mistake by forcing Rama’s wife. That he’s no better than a Dog that ran away in scare of Rama and Lakshmana.

Her statements make Ravana very angry. He removes his sword and charges towards her but is stopped by one of his wives. Ravana returns back to his palace. Sita is sobbing at her fate.

Amongst the Rakshasis guarding her, Trijata, calms her friends from tormenting Sita any further. She speaks of her dream in which the whole of Lanka was burning and Vibheeshana had a white umbrella (signifying a kingly status) and how Sita protects all the guarding Rakshasis.

Sita is lost in a flood of emotions and thoughts. She’s distraught that it’s 10 months and she hasn’t heard anything about rescuing her rom Rama. Hope seems like a lost thing. She decides to hang herself with her own long hair. Looking for a low hanging branch, Sita wraps her hair around her neck and the branch….

But Sita is surprised by the positive signs showed by a little bird….She pauses and thinks.

Hanuman, observing all this is suddenly aware that he has very less time left. He sings the Ramayana for Sita. Sita is very happy and delighted to hear Rama’s name in the wretched land. She looks up the branchesand realises theres a little golden monkey sitting there….For a while she thinks she’s hallucinating but then realises its not a dream..

Hanuman chooses not to jump down immediately as it could scare her. He Eventually gets talking to her on how Rama is trying everything her can to reach her. Sita feels very happy and relieved seeing the choodamani Rama has sent with Hanuman.

Sugreeva approaches Rama after the 4 months of rainy season. Rama is astonished to see a sea of Monkeys and feels humbled that they were ready to help him.

Angada and Hanuman are assigned to divide the army of monkeys into 4 groups to go in 4 different directions in search of Sita. By now, it was pretty evident that Sita was more likely to be on the south side.

Hanuman, Angada, Jambavanta were in the south side army. They look in every possible place. They finally end up in a cave that was brightly lit and were astonished to see the cave full of lovely fruits and honey. They monkey army was tired and hungry. They meet Swayam prabha, the lady in charge of the cave. She allows them to eat to their contempt.

They request her to let them out of the cave. That’s when she informs that there is no exit to the cave. But she knew Rama’s task of finding Sita and so helps them out to the sea side.

The entire army is demotivated as they hit the end of the road and find no other route to look for. They discuss Rama’s story and mention Jatayu’s name. Suddenly, they see a huge bird hopping towards them as he had no wings. The giant bird speaks to them and asks why Jatayu’s name was mentioned. He introduces himself as Sampati.

Sampati feels sad to hear the news of his brother Jatayu’s death. He helps the army by informing that he is able to see a lady in the far land, that she’s very upset and she’s constantly remembering Rama.

Sampati immediately gets his wings back and flies away to give last rites to his brother. The army is now hopeful again but is troubled with the fact that there is no one who could go to the far off land. Jambavanta finally reminds Hanuman on his boon of strength and that Hanuman is capable of flying that far. Hanumantha realises his strength, climbs the Mahendra parvata and left with a huge force and leaves to Lanka.

On his way, a Golden mountain starts emerging from the sea. Its called the Mynaka parvata. He’s the friend of Hanuman’s father. He requests Hanuman to eat something on the mountain and relax before proceeding on the journey. Hanuman refuses as he’s on Rama’s Mission.

He then encounters Surasa. She opens her mouth wide enough to eat up Hanuman. Hanuman reduces his size to the size of a bee and quickly escapes out of her mouth. Surasa appreciates the thinking capability of Hanuman.

During the onward journey, a Daemoness, Simhika, with a capability of pulling creatures by pulling their shadow, starts pulling Hanuman towards her to eat him up for lunch. But Hanuman was strong enough to fight and kill her. Therefore releasing her from a curse.

Hanuman completes the rest of his journey, a total of 300 miles in 4 hours to reach Trikoota Shikara.

He manages to get a glimpse of the city of Lanka from the mountain top. He wonders if this is the city of Indra, the King of Gods. The richness of the city is undeniable. He waited until sunset.

He reached the city of Lanka, reduces to a small monkey and was about to enter the City, when he was stopped by Lankini. A daemoness who was guarding it. She wouldn’t let even a fly pass through and was sure the catch Hanuman. She asked him a few questions and asked him to return back. Hanuman tries to negotiate his entry into the city but realises it’s a waste of time. She tries to attack him, which is when Hanuman grows to the size of a huge mountain and touches her on the forehead.

Lankini is unable to stand the touch and collapses. She quickly gains back consciousness and tells him that She’s now free from a curse and that Bramha had given her a boon. The day she gets defeated by a monkey would be the last day on this job and the first day of Lanka’s collapse. She thanks him and allows him in.

Hanuman is astonished and mesmerised by the beauty of the city… every pillar made of Gold and studded with expensive stones