RamayanaJatayu
Jatayu: who Jatayu is in the Ramayana and the role in the story, in plain words.
The old vulture, a friend of Dasharatha, who fought Ravana to save Sita and was fatally wounded; Rama performed his funeral rites as for a father.
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.