Manthara : in Ramayana, a petty-minded hunch-back, princess Kaikeyi’s ayah who managed Kaikeyi’s mind resulting in the death of King Dasharatha, a 14-year exile for Rama, Sītā & Lakshman’s, & Kaikeyi’s estrangement from her only son, her shame, misery & self-hatred.
... truth, (ii) elimination of negative attributes in human person (like anger and *Values should transform the consciousness and right conduct. *Negative elements like suspicion raised by 'Manthara' led to disaster in 'Ramayana'. *An interesting story Leela Chanesar from Sindhi literature was read out by the speaker. Session VIII Theme: Contributions of Literature to Val ...
... of Ayodhya, 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 ...
... 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 character-revealing ...
... deformity & to extract poetry & grace out of the ugly. The classical instances are the immortal verses in which Valmekie by a storm of beautiful & costly images & epithets has immortalised the hump of Manthara & the still more immortal passage in which he has made the tail of a monkey epic. × Sri Aurobindo ...
... be gratified. (13) Surely I ought not to give offence to Providence (by crossing His purpose), as it is by Him that this idea has been infused (into the mind of Kaikeyī through the machination of Manthara) and her mind fully set at rest (on the question). I shall (accordingly) go into exile, let there be no delay. (14) "Providence alone should be regarded, 0 son of Sumitrā, as responsible for ...
... be sand, modifying Goldsmith's lines on Burke: Born for the universe, he narrowed up his mind, And to himself gave what was meant for mankind. It was not Satan, nor Achitophel, nor Manthara, nor Iago that tempted Pururavas or Ruru; they were but betrayed by the infinitesimal egoistic false within themselves. The Temptation was enacted, in the last resort, only in the theatre of ...
... 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 is poor ballad ...
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