The Ramayana

Volume six; The Book of War.
The Monkey army under command of Sugriva and Rama marched up to the shores of the Southern Sea where they find Vibishana, the brother of Ravana. When they brought him as a prisoner to Rama he explained that he got exiled because he spoke in favor of a honorable return of Sita to Rama. Rama made him one of his closest advisors and the monkey engineer Nala, with the help of the other monkeys, build in five days a bridge to Lanka. After the army crossed the bridge, Rama sent an ultimate messenger to Ravana with the demand to elease his wife, but an angered Ravana ordered him out of his palace. After a lengthy battle, the monkey army won the battle and Rama killed Varana, thus completing the task that Vishnu put upon his incarnation into Rama. Upon his victory he installed Vibishana upon the throne of Lanka.

Volume seven; The Last Book
When Sita heard of Rama’s victory, she happily put on her best perfumes, make up and clothes and ordered a palanquin to bring her to Rama. When she reached her husband, he wanted her to prove that she remained pure while being imprisoned by Varana. In despair she orders a big funeral fire to be build and stepped into the flames, praying to Agni, the God of the fire, to spare her if she remained pure. The god acknowledges her fire and lifts her out of the fire while proclaiming her purity and all rumors fell still. Meanwhile Rama’s term of exile expired and they returned to Ajodhya where Rama was crowned.

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