Week 3, Reading Diary B: The Ending

When they reach the southern shore, Hanuman grows into a giant monkey and steps in to Lanka and then shrinks down to small size. He goes and looks for Sita and first mistakes Ravan’s wife to be Sita. He finally finds her in a garden where Hanuman and Sita exchange jewelry. After exchanging jewelry Hanuman again goes big and destroys the garden, and then Ravan’s brother tries capturing Hanuman, Hanuman allows himself to be captured and be presented in front of Ravan. Hanuman advises to let Sita return or he’s going to be in big trouble but Ravan doesn’t listen and lights fire to Hanumans tail. Hanuman then burns Lanka down with the flame. Vibhishan, one of Ravan’s brothers, advises to return Sita or he will be killed but Ravan denies and exiles Vibhishan. Vibhishan now goes to Ram, where Ram treats him like he is the king. Ram tells the sea god to make a path a so they can cross the waters, but the sea god tells him he can make a bridge so all creatures and men help build a bridge. They cross and Ram and Ravan fight, Ram continuously chops off Ravan’s head but with no result, and then he finally kills him by sending a Brahma astra. Ram finally gets Sita back but he doesn’t believe Sita of purity so then Sita jumps into the fire proving she is pure. They return to Ayodhya. Overall the story was close to what I was taught but Sita dies in the fire and comes back in the next life, because marriages are a knot of seven lifetimes.