Kaikeyi Kaikayi Kekayie : youngest of the three queens of King Dasharatha she acted as his charioteer in a war. For this courageous act the king granted her three boons. Goaded by Mantharā her crooked ayah she forgot her love for the king & all four princes, forced him to exile Rāma & give the throne to her son Bharata who, the moment he came to know of her deed, banished her from his life.
... entry into the chamber of his father and his step- mother Kaikeyi; Kaikeyi's disclosure of the king's command for Sri Rama to go into exile for fourteen years to the forest and for the installation of Bharata as the king; Sri Rama's undisturbed state of mind even at this sudden reversal from coronation to exile; Sri Rama's dialogues with Kaikeyi, with Kausalya his own mother, Lakshmana and Sita and the... explained to him that their father was right in honouring the promise that he had given to queen Kaikeyi and that it was to uphold that right action of his father that he had accepted to be exiled. Bharata, the younger brother, given the crown by the father in fulfillment of his promise to queen Kaikeyi, refused to accept Page 15 In the dark forest, Rama kills Tadaka the demoness... Sri Rama, the king was compelled to take a decision to send his beloved Rama into exile for fourteen years and to bestow the crown on Bharata, the younger prince and the son of the youngest queen Kaikeyi. Only Valmiki has been able to describe the majesty and the divinity of Sri Rama, who even though dimmed by the unexpected turn of events, rose immediately to the supreme heights of firm resolve, golden ...
... s are awakened but in need of training, to use the comparative method for which Sj. Ramānanda Chatterji has supplied plentiful materials in this book; for instance, the three illustrations of the Kaikayi and Manthara incident which are given one after the other,—Sj. Nandalal Bose's original and Page 462 suggestive though not entirely successful picture, Sj. Durandhar's vigorous and cha ...
... the flames and perished also. Time passed. Dasaratha became king of Ayodhya and married the lady Kausalya. And his son was the glorious Rama. Rama was loved by all in the city, except Queen Kaikeyi, the king's second wife, and her maid. These two women plotted the downfall of noble Rama, and because of them he was sent into exile for fourteen years. Then Dasaratha mourned his son, as the aged ...
... trained in warfare. The Rig-veda speaks of girls joining the army in large numbers. They were so skilled that men did not regard it as shameful to fight with such women. In the Ramayana, queen Kaikeyi reminds her husband that she accompanied him in the battle and was even able to save him by pulling him away from the battleground at the time when he was wounded. Women of royal families were expected ...
... line See, see where Christ's blood streams in the firmament and Chesterton's facetious turn about the stretched necks and burned beards on a par. Humour can be poetic and even epic, like Kaikeyi's praise of Manthara's hump in the Ramayana; but this joke of Chesterton's does not merit such an apotheosis. That is ballad style, not mighty or epic. Again all that passage about Colan and Earl Harold ...
... of voice & wild freedom who seldom appear on the earth, their home is in the mountains & in the skies; he speaks of a young Kinnar snared & bound by men & the mother wailing over her offspring; and Kekayie lying on the ground in her passion of grief & anger is compared to a Kinnarie fallen from the skies. In all probability they were at first a fugitive image of the strange wild voices of the wind galloping ...
... some gains here and there. It is a knowledge of the battle of Life. It is a revelation of the real nature of Life: suddenly, in harmony, disharmony comes about. Suddenly, when Rama is to be crowned, Kaikeyi happens to demand certain things overnight; Rama is thrown out and a great tragedy occurs; a battle takes place and only after the battle does the victory come. So, in human life, there are forces ...
... perpetrated by him is in contravention of (all principles of) morality and is (therefore) utterly condemned in the world by the wise. (16) Be pleased to grant all this (prayer of mine) in order to save Kaikeyi, myself, father, our friends and relations as well as all the citizens and people of the countryside. (17) What congruity is there between forest life (on the one hand) and the duty of a Ksatriya (on ...
... then three forays into the magnificently dramatic Ayodhya Kanda . It is the perfect tragedy, the coronation turning into exile. The "reversal of fortune", of course, is engineered by Manthara, Kaikeyi and Dasaratha (in that order). But Rama's fate impinges with particular force on two women, Kausalya and Sita - the mother and the wife. Sri Aurobindo therefore chooses passages from Sarga 20 and ...
... mind of Kaikeyī (my own mother) if this idea of hers were not prompted by Providence? (16) You (already) know, 0 gentle brother, that I have never made any discrimination between my mothers, nor did Kaikeyi make any distinction, between her son and me. (17) As such I cannot hold anything other than the will of Providence responsible for her tormenting the king with harsh words, hard to utter (even for ...
... depends itself on the more or less dominating mind. 3 March 1963 Page 220 ( While translating the Mother's "Words of Long Ago" into Hindi, the disciple found that the story of Kaikeyi told there differed from the version in the Hindi Ramayana. He wrote: ) I am afraid people will criticise what is different from their belief on this point. They say that as Rama loved her so much ...
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