RamayanaRama
Rama: who Rama is in the Ramayana and the role in the story, in plain words.
The eldest son of Dasharatha and the hero of the epic, the seventh avatar of Vishnu in the tradition. He is remembered as the ideal son, brother, husband and king: he accepted exile to keep his father's word, he treated the poor and the humble with respect and he ruled with justice. See also Rama.
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.