RamayanaDasharatha
Dasharatha: who Dasharatha is in the Ramayana and the role in the story, in plain words.
The king of Ayodhya and father of the four princes, bound by his word to Kaikeyi and dying of grief after Rama left. His name means "ten chariots", for he could fight in all ten directions.
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.