RamayanaKaikeyi
Kaikeyi: who Kaikeyi is in the Ramayana and the role in the story, in plain words.
The queen who asked for Rama's exile, led by her maid Manthara. In many tellings she is the cause of the tragedy, though some tellers, including Tulsidas, say she was moved by the gods, so that Rama could fulfil his purpose against Ravana.
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.