Part B of this week’s reading starts back with where it left
us regarding Sita and Rama’s journey through the forest. Sita and Rama are busy
dealing with Ravana. Ravana now has Maricha working with him as he sends him to
Rama as a golden deer. Sita then encourages Rama to chase the deer, however,
when he kills the deer it cries out in Rama’s voice, which startles Sita.
Lakshmana goes in search of Rama, but during this time Ravana appears in front
of Sita in his elderly disguise. As soon as Ravana ditches his disguise he
grasps Sita and takes her away against her will, obviously. Luckily, Sita lets
her jewelry fall off to where the two monkeys are in hope of their realization
of the situation. We then learn that Ravana cannot rape Sita because his heads
would explode if he committed rape due to the curse that had been placed upon
him. Therefore, Ravana captured Sita and must convince her to give into him
willfully. Rama and Lakshmana return to find that Sita is gone. Luckily, they
get sent in the right direction as they start to discover clues ultimately
leading to the monkeys. Hanuman then is the one who takes Rama and Lakshmana to
Sugriva, who reveals Sita’s discovered jewelry. All of the monkeys go out in
massive search parties looking for Sita to lead her back to Rama and Lakshmana.
They leave us with the squad who went to the south that has encountered
Swayamprabha, she is in charge of the underground world. They are down there
for about a month, but they refuse to quit and emerge from the cave ready to
continue their search.
Sugriva
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