Lord Rama Retursn to Ayodhya
Rama Returns to Ayodhya (Retold based on Valmiki Ramayana, Yuddha Kanda, Sarga 128) Nandigram - a small village near Ayodhya. People were gathered. Many looked like royals but in hermit clothes. There was a majestic monkey that was waiting with them. All eyes were turned southward towards the sky. Were they waiting for a celestial event? No. They were waiting for their brother, master, king and Lord – Rama and his beautiful consort Sita. Rama had been banished from the kingdom to spend 14 years in the jungle by his father King Dasaratha. Who were the people waiting? Bharata, Shatrugna, Hanuman (who had flown earlier with news of Rama’s expected arrival), the ministers, the queen mothers Kausalya, Kaikeyi and Sumithra, the other royal folk and of course the citizens who loved Rama as their own family. Then they saw it! A distant glint that became bigger and bigger and dazzled the onlookers with the sunlight hitting its go...