Wednesday, April 2, 2025

What are some shocking secrets of Ramayana?

 

  1. Rama was named eleven days after his birth by Vasishtha.
  2. Rama invoked a weapon called Manavastra which flung the demon named Subahu one hundred miles away.
  3. Hanuman lept up into the sky in childhood to seize Surya thinking the deity to be an apple.
  4. Indra broke Hanuman's left jawbone and killed him with the powerful thunderbolt known as Vajra.
  5. Vayu momentarily deprived the wind from the three worlds on seeing his son Hanuman killed by Indra.
  6. On Vayu's request, Brahma restored life back to Hanuman.
  7. Vali seized Ravana in a battle and put him under the armpits. On Brahma's request, Vali let Ravana go from captivity.
  8. Vali killed a gigantic buffalo named Dundubhi just with a mere blow of his fists.
  9. Ravana was defeated by Kartavirya Arjuna in a battle.
  10. Ravana had more than one thousand queen consorts at his palace in Lanka.
  11. Ravana married a princess named Dhanyamalini and had a son through her named Atikaya.
  12. Ravana's youngest son Akshayakumara was slain by Hanuman in the garden of Lanka.
  13. Hanuman never used a mace to fight in battles. He fought with rocks, boulders, trees and summits of uprooted mountains.
  14. Laxmana was protected by all the gods in the final fight with Meghanada.
  15. Rama distributed thirty crores of gold coins to the brahmanas of Ayodhya on returning from Lanka.
  16. On Rama's request, Sita took off the golden necklace from her neck and gave it to Hanuman.

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