Ramayana · Vol 1
Uttara
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Ravana is dead and Rama is on the throne of Ayodhya when the sage Agastya comes and tells the origins of his enemy. The story starts in a Lanka that once stood empty and arrives at a ten-headed child who counts humans as grass.
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- Ramayana
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- 22 chapters, 25,555 words
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About this work
Ravana is dead, and Rama rules in Ayodhya. The sages come to offer congratulations, and they praise Indrajit, Ravana's son, above his father. Rama asks why. To answer, the sage Agastya recounts the line of his enemy from the days when Lanka was a golden city with no inhabitants. Kaikasi, a rakshasa's daughter, goes to the sage Vishrava at a fierce hour, and her first child is born with ten necks. That child, Dashagriva, cuts off his own heads one by one in penance until Brahma grants him a boon. He asks to be invulnerable to gods and rakshasas, and humans he counts as grass. He then demands Lanka from his elder brother, Kubera, and Kubera leaves for the sake of their father's honor. When Kubera sends a messenger to counsel him, he kills the messenger and sets out to attack Kailasa. This is the last volume of the Ramayana, faithfully retold from Valmiki's Uttara Kanda in the Indian version.
