Sacred Lake where Shabari met Lord Rama. - Pampa Sarovar.
According to the legend, it is believed that Jatayu fell on the rocks in Chadayamangalam, 38 km from Kollam district of Kerala, India after his wings were chopped off by Ravana.
A beautiful historical village with a dramatic landscape, Hampi in Karnataka, can be mapped to Ramayana's Kishkindha - the kingdom of the Vanara king Sugriva. The kingdom of Kishkindha is said to be a part of the Dandaka forest, which stretched from the Vindhiya mountain range down to the south of India.
Raam broke the Shivdhanushya as He was trying to fix the bowstring. Then Janak sent a messenger to Dashrath and then got Raam married to Sita, Lakshman married to Urmila and Bharat and Shatrughna married to Janak's brother Kushadhwaj's daughters.
Hopping in a local transport like a bus or an auto is the best way to reach the lake. It is located near Anegundi, which is at 3kms from Hampi. You will not get any local vehicles to reach Anegundi as it is situated on the bank of river Tungabhadra and you have to cross the river for the sake of reaching Anegundi.
Dandakaranya, physiographic region in east-central India. Extending over an area of about 35,600 square miles (92,300 square km), it includes the Abujhmar Hills in the west and borders the Eastern Ghats in the east. The Dandakaranya includes parts of Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh states.
The Ramayana is an ancient Indian epic, composed some time in the 5th century BCE, about the exile and then return of Rama, prince of Ayodhya. It was composed in Sanskrit by the sage Valmiki, who taught it to Rama's sons, the twins Lava and Kush.
According to Valmiki Ramayana, Lord Hanuman met Lord Rama for the first time in the Rishyamukh parvat (mountain) during Kishkindha Kanda. Lord Hanuman was the minister of Sugriva at that time.
(1) Satyayug :- 17,28,000 Years. (2) Tretayug :- 12,96,000 Years. (3) Dwaparyug :- 8,64,000 Years. (4) Kaliyug :- 4,32,000 Years.
As per Valmiki Ramayana: Sita was around 16 years of age at the time of her Marriage with Lord Rama. She spends Two years in Ayodhya before accompanying Rama for 14 years of exile. So 25–18 = 7, hence the age difference between Lord Rama and Sita is 7 years.
As Lord Rama was Trikal Darshi (the one who can see three times past, present and future clearly) he dropped his ring purposefully in a cleavage on the floor and asked Lord Hanuman to find it.
Ravana couldn't attempt to rape her because he had got a curse in the past when he raped a celestial damsel. So, just for the love of his own life forces, he didn't attempt rape on Sita because she was unwilling.
When his people demanded he remarry for the Ashvamedha Yagna, Rama had enough. He placed a golden statue of Sita in place of his wife and challenged his kingdom to disprove him. He could abandon a queen for peace amongst his people, but he would never abandon his wife !
During the war between Rama and Ravana, he killed Indrajit and Atikaya, who were the sons of Ravana. Before he killed Indrajit, Lakhshmana and Rama were twice defeated by Indrajit and in both occasions Hanuman's intervention saved them from certain death.
According to the Mahabharata, a fight breaks out at a festival among the Yadavas, who end up killing each other. Mistaking the sleeping Krishna for a deer, a hunter named Jara shoots an arrow that fatally injures him. Krishna forgives Jara and dies.
