"A seed that sprouts at the foot of it's parent tree remains stunted until it is transplanted."
Viswanithia to King Dasaratha.
"We attain a full understanding only when we are aware of the divine
and other associations of every piece of ground we tread on."
Thataka's Story
This story is about Sukitha who is a demigod and her two sons, Mareecha and Subahu. Basically they went crazy and tore a bunch of stuff up on the earth. Sundra, their dad, dropped dead because a saint wanted him to. Sukitha and Sons wanted revenge! The saint said that since they were destroyers they would be degraded to demons. Their mother stayed and made the land bad, but the boys, I assume, just roamed about in whatever world that demons hang out in.
Mahabali's Story
This is a story about a sneaky little guy named Vishnu. Mahabali had seized the heavens and the earth and Vishnu told him he just wanted what he could cover in three steps. Vishnu appeared small to Mahabali, so he said, sure, why not, it can't be that bad and then BAM, Vishnu became HUGE and took one step on the earth, one step in heaven and the last on Mahabali's head and sent his butt straight to the netherworld. There are some other things that happened in that story towards the end, but that was the really cool part :)
The Wedding: Two Promises Revived
This is the story about how Rama and Situ met in this life. Before this life they had been husband and wife many times before. The beginning reminded me of Romeo and Juliet a little and I was hoping it wasn't going to end up the same and I wasn't disappointed. I was, however, surprised at the twist. So I guess the King had many wives, not sister wives, but anyway, so the one that wasn't Rama's mom decided she wanted her son, Bharatha, to have the kingdom and not Rama. Long story short, she conned the King into almost sending Rama away for 14 years.
Rama's Coronation. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Ravi Varma Press, 1910.
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