Reading Notes: Ramayana Part A

I really love Ramayana and I have watched it so many times.  Sometime people in India make Ramayana movie as a cartoon so kids will watch and learn about it.  As a kid it was fun to watch Ramayana and I really like it.  They also made the show based on Ramayana and it was on Indian TV channel named StarPlus, which my dad bought so he can watch all of the TV channels from India.  I watched the whole Ramayana and it came five days a week for twenty minutes a day.

Rama is the main character who learn everything and he was respectful towards his people and other people as well.  He will help anyone that needed help and wouldn't hesitate to help, but the character that interest me most was Parashurama who is a son of sage and his parents were killed by arrogant King.  He said that he won't rest until he killed that King who killed his parents for not giving the cow.  Parashurama was God Vishnu's avatar so he was born to kill the Kings who were arrogant and did not help his people.

This was the reason I like his character most, who will kill anyone if they were doing the wrong thing.  In Ramayana, King Janaka announce the marriage for his gorgeous daughter Sita and said that anyone who can put the string on the bow of God Shiva will be the husband of Sita.  Many Kings came to pick the bow up but nobody could lift it, even Ravana came he was able to lift little bit and cannot hold for long time.  King Janaka has thought that there is there no one who can pick this bow and marry my daughter Sita.  Rama came at the end and with request from his teacher he pick the bow up and break it from the middle and everyone was surprised.

Parashurama come and said "who was arrogant enough and dare to break the bow of God Shiva".  He hated the arrogant people and Lakshmana brother of Rama said "It was old bow that my brother snapped in half and why are you angry." Parashurama got angry at Lakshmana for being disrespectful and almost hit him with his axe but Rama came in between and join his hand for respect.  And after that the sage Parashurama calm down and handed God Vishnu's bow to Rama and told him to shoot. Rama did and Parashurama got to know that his is the avatar of God Vishnu.

I really like how he makes his entry and everyone became scared of his presence.  He is the type of person who will not tolerate the injustice toward other people or being too much arrogant.

Rama shooting and Parashurama watching.  Source

The author is Laura Gibbs, Title PDE Ramayana: Parashurama, Source