Rama and Sita story, The Legend of Ramayana

Rama and Sita Story

King Dasharatha of Ayodhya in India was childless and made a special sacrifice to the gods, hoping that they would give him sons. Meanwhile, the gods begged their lord Brahma to help them against Ravana, the demon king. So Brahma asked the god Vishnu to vanquish the demon. Vishnu agreed and was born, in his seventh incarnation, as Rama and his three brothers Bharata, Lakshmana, and Shatrughna.

Unaware of their divinity, the brothers grew up as the sons of King Dasharatha and his three wives and married. Rama married Sita, an incarnation of Vishnu’s wife Lakshmi, and was made his father’s heir. However, owing to the intrigues of one of his father’s wives, he left the city with Sita and Lakshmana, to live in the forest.

There, they lived a quiet life for ten years, until one day Ravana tricked the brothers into leaving Sita alone, and abducted her. Read more »