1) The Ramayana was written by Maharshi Valmiki and contains 24,000 verses across 500 chapters and 7 books.
2) According to the Ramayana, King Dashrath organized a fire sacrifice with the help of sage Rishyashring to have children when he was 60 years old.
3) There are some differences between the versions of the Ramayana - for example, Tulsidas' version mentions Rama breaking Shiva's bow at Sita's swayamvar while Valmiki's version does not.
1) The Ramayana was written by Maharshi Valmiki and contains 24,000 verses across 500 chapters and 7 books.
2) According to the Ramayana, King Dashrath organized a fire sacrifice with the help of sage Rishyashring to have children when he was 60 years old.
3) There are some differences between the versions of the Ramayana - for example, Tulsidas' version mentions Rama breaking Shiva's bow at Sita's swayamvar while Valmiki's version does not.
1) The Ramayana was written by Maharshi Valmiki and contains 24,000 verses across 500 chapters and 7 books.
2) According to the Ramayana, King Dashrath organized a fire sacrifice with the help of sage Rishyashring to have children when he was 60 years old.
3) There are some differences between the versions of the Ramayana - for example, Tulsidas' version mentions Rama breaking Shiva's bow at Sita's swayamvar while Valmiki's version does not.
1) The Ramayana was written by Maharshi Valmiki and contains 24,000 verses across 500 chapters and 7 books.
2) According to the Ramayana, King Dashrath organized a fire sacrifice with the help of sage Rishyashring to have children when he was 60 years old.
3) There are some differences between the versions of the Ramayana - for example, Tulsidas' version mentions Rama breaking Shiva's bow at Sita's swayamvar while Valmiki's version does not.
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Ramayana has been written by Maharshi Valmiki.
This epic has 24,000 shlokas, 500
upkhand and 7 Kand with answers. The time when King Dashrath had organized a ya gya for the birth of Lord Rama, his age was 60 years. According to Ramayana, King Dashrath had organized the yagya with the help of sa ge Rishyashring. Rishyashrings father was Vibandak. One day while Vibandak were b athing in the river, he ejaculated inside water. A female drank that water and R ishyashring was born. In Tulsidass Ramayana, it is mentioned that in Sitas Swayamvar, Lord Rama had lift ed the bow and arrow of Lord Shiva and it broke. However, there is no mention of this incident in Valmikis Ramayana. as per Shri Ramcharit Manas, during Sitas swayamvar, Parshuram had come, but acco rding to Ramayana, when Lord Rama was returning to Ayodhya after marrying Sita, that time Parshuram had come. When Lord Rama went to exile he was 27 years old When Lakshman came to know about Lord Rama being asked to go on exile, he was ve ry angry and had asked Rama to fight with his own father and win the throne. But he calmed down after Rama explained him When King Dashrath asked Lord Rama to go to a forest, he wanted to give him lots of wealth so that he remains happy there. However, his third wife Kaikayi didnt allow for the same. Bharat had come to know about his father, King Dashraths death through his dream. He had seen his father wearing black clothes in his dream. As per Hindu religion, there are 33 croreGods and Goddesses. However, as per Ram ayanas Aranyakand, its mentioned that there exists only 33 Gods and Goddesses It is known that when Sita was kidnapped by Raavan, Jatayu, the king of birds tr ied to save her, but lost his life. However, as per Ramayana, it wasnt Jatayu who went to save Sita, but his father Arun. Vidyutjinn was the husband of Shrupnakha who was Raavans sister. He was a senapat i in the army of Kalkay King. When Raavan was out to conquer the world, he fough t with Kalkay too. In this battle, Vidyutjinn died. Angry Shrupnakha cursed Raav an that she will become a reason for her brothers death. The day Raavan kidnapped Sita and brought to Ashok Vatika, the same night, Lord Brahma had sent Indra Dev to Sita to give her kheer (sweet dish made of milk and rice). Indra Dev first through his supernatural powers made all demons present at Ashok Vatika sleep and then gave the kheer to Sita. When Lord Rama and Lakshman were searching for Sita in the forest, they had come across a demon, Kambadh whom they killed. Actually Kambadh had become a demon d ue to a curse. When Lord Rama went to burn his dead body, his soul was relived f rom the curse and he told him to do friendship with Sugreev. As per Ramayana, it had taken 5 days to construct a bridge over the ocean. Once Raavan went to Kailash Mountain to meet Lord Shiva. At Kailash he made fun of Nandi and laughed at him. In anger Nandi cursed Raavan. His curse was that a monkey will become a reason for Raavans destruction. As per Ramayana, when Raavan had lifted Mount Kailash to impress Lord Shiva, God dess Parvati had got scared and cursed Raavan that he will die because of a woma n When the battle between Rama and Raavan was being fought, Indra Dev had sent his magical cart for Rama. Lord Rama sitting in that cart had killed Raavan Raavan used to like in Lanka, which was made of gold. Lanka was first ruled by R aavans elder brother Kuber. Raavan had won Lanka from his brother in a battle. Once Raavan was going somewhere in his Ppushpak Viman when he saw a beautiful wo man busy in worshipping Lord Vishnu to marry the God himself. Raavan pulled her hair and ordered her to go with him. The woman sacrificed her body on the spot a nd cursed Raavan.