Report in Literature

1. RAMAYANA
By: VALMIKI

2. Who is Valmiki?
 He is the greatest poet or the Poet
of Poets in India.

3. He was born along the banks
of the Ganges in ancient India
to a sage by the name of
Prachetasa.
His birth name was
Ratnakara.
Author of RAMAYANA, the
very first poem in the Sanskrit

4. He apparently got lost in the
jungles as a child and was
found by a hunter who raised
him as his own son.
When he grew up he became a
hunter like his foster father but
also took to being a bandit to
supplement his livelihood. Once
it so happened he met the
Maharishi Narada and tried to

5. He narrated the story of Rama
to him and asked him to write
it down for posterity.
Ratnakara did penance for
many years and an ant-hill
grew around him. Hence his
new name 'Valmika' which in
Sanskrit means an ant-hill. He
came out of the anthill and
penned the great epic.

6. RAMAYANA

7. Characters:
 Dasaratha – the king of Ayodha; He
has three
queens, Kausalya, Kaikeyi and Sumit
ra; and had 4
sons, Rama, Bharata, Lakshmana a
nd Shatrughna.

8. Rama – incarnation of the God
Vishnu; he is the favorite son
of Dasaratha to Kausalya
Bharata – son of Dasaratha
and Kaikeyi
Lakshmana & Shatrughna –
sons of Dasaratha and
Sumitra

9. Sita – wife of Rama
Ravana – king of Lanka; ruler
of the demons
Indrajit – Ravana’s son
Hanuman – a devoted follower
of Sugriva who is the king of
the monkey army; he helped
Rama to find Sita

10. King
Dasaratha

11. Kausalya, Kaikeyi, Sumitra

12. RAMA

13. Sita
chooses
Rama to be
her
husband by
putting a
garland
around his
neck.

14. Dasaratha realizes that he is
growing old and he must pass
his crown to Rama.

15. A wicked maiden
talked to Kaikeyi
and told her if
Rama will be the
King, she will lose
her control to the
whole kingdom.

16. Kaikeyi ask Dasaratha to make
her son, Bharata the king instead
of Rama.

17. Kayeiki told Rama the King’s
decree.

18. One day, a
she-demon
tried to
seduce
them.

19. Ravana planned a revenge
against Rama.

20. One of the demons pretended to be a
deer.
Sita asked Rama to get it for her.

21. They asked help from the
monkey army.

22. They
returned to
the kingdom
of Ayodhya.

23. King Rama heard that
his wife, Sita has been
impure when she was
held as a hostage by
Ravana.

24. •He talked to his brother and
commanded him to send his
wife to the forest and leave
her there.

25. •Sita gave birth to her twins.
An old man in the forest let
her stay into his house and
taught her twins the song
“RAMAYANA”

26. •A feast was held in the
Kingdom and everyone was
invited. The twins went to join
the festival and sing the song.

27. •The King heard the song and
declared that the twins are his
sons.

28. THE END

29. Powerpoint by:
Francinne Gacilo