RamayanaBharata
Bharata: who Bharata is in the Ramayana and the role in the story, in plain words.
Kaikeyi's son, who refused to take the throne gained for him by his mother, went to the forest to bring Rama back and ruled Ayodhya in Rama's name with his sandals on the throne.
See the story of the whole epic in seven books and the other characters.
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A retelling in our own words of a story that is told in many different ways across India and Asia. Tellers differ on many episodes; where it matters we say so. It is not a scholarly translation.