Dasharatha, the king of Ayodhya, performed a fire sacrifice on the advice of his priest Vashishta to seek blessings for a child. As a result of consuming the sacred payasa, Dasharatha's three queens - Kausalya, Kaikeyi, and Sumitra - each gave birth to a son. Kausalya bore Rama, Kaikeyi bore Bharata, and Sumitra bore the twins Lakshmana and Shatrughna. Later, Kaikeyi demanded Rama's exile for 14 years and the crowning of her son Bharata instead, due to a past debt owed to her by Dasharatha. In the
Dasharatha, the king of Ayodhya, performed a fire sacrifice on the advice of his priest Vashishta to seek blessings for a child. As a result of consuming the sacred payasa, Dasharatha's three queens - Kausalya, Kaikeyi, and Sumitra - each gave birth to a son. Kausalya bore Rama, Kaikeyi bore Bharata, and Sumitra bore the twins Lakshmana and Shatrughna. Later, Kaikeyi demanded Rama's exile for 14 years and the crowning of her son Bharata instead, due to a past debt owed to her by Dasharatha. In the
Dasharatha, the king of Ayodhya, performed a fire sacrifice on the advice of his priest Vashishta to seek blessings for a child. As a result of consuming the sacred payasa, Dasharatha's three queens - Kausalya, Kaikeyi, and Sumitra - each gave birth to a son. Kausalya bore Rama, Kaikeyi bore Bharata, and Sumitra bore the twins Lakshmana and Shatrughna. Later, Kaikeyi demanded Rama's exile for 14 years and the crowning of her son Bharata instead, due to a past debt owed to her by Dasharatha. In the
blessings of God for a child. The king received the gift joyfully and distributed the payasa to his three queens, the three wives of Dasharatha gave birth to 4 sons. Kausalya, the eldest queen gave birth to the eldest son Rama. Bharata, the second sin was born to Kaikeyi, and Sumitra gave birth to the twins Lakshmana and Shatrughna. Kaikeyi, on the other hand, is resentful of Rama's position as crown prince. She brought up a debt Dasharatha owes her and requests that Rama be exiled for over fourteen years and that her son Bharata be crowned instead.
In the deep forest, sita went missing, Rama and
Lakshmana searched everywhere to find sita but had no luck. Rama and Lakshmana as well the vanar army won an epic battle in Lanka and Ravana who is killed by Rama, Sita is now freed, they returned to Ayodhya, where Bharata returns the crown to Rama.