Ramayana · Vol 1
The Bridge
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Rama knows where Sita is held captive, but his vanara army is stopped at the edge of the sea. In Lanka, Vibhishana begs his elder brother, Ravana, again and again to give Sita back, until he is standing in the great hall with a mace in his hand.
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Hanuman returns from Lanka with the jewel from Sita's hair and word that Ravana's deadline has only two months left to run. Rama, Sita's husband, leads the vanara army south to the edge of the sea, and there the road ends. On the far shore Ravana, king of the rakshasas, holds council with generals competing to promise victory. His younger brother, Vibhishana, sees the sacred fire refuse to burn and asks that Sita be returned. Ravana refuses and orders him away. In the great hall Kumbhakarna, newly awake, blames his elder brother and still chooses to fight. Indrajit, Ravana's son, calls his uncle a coward. Ravana calls Vibhishana a stain on his line. Vibhishana lifts his mace, and four captains rise at his side. They fly across the sea, straight to the shore where thousands of vanaras wait with stones in their hands. This novel retells the first half of the Yuddha Kanda of Valmiki's Ramayana, in the Indian version.
