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Reading Notes-Ramayana Part D

Simhika leads Draupadi into the forest (by  Raja Ravi Varma ) While this picture doesn't completely correlate with the stories of Part D, it does remind me of how Sita would have looked after the battle had died down and she was expected to walk back to her husband and her future.  The concept that stuck out to me the most during this portion of the Ramayana epic is, of course, the battle scenes. I'm not sure if it's just me and how I process scenarios, but I can never quite get a grasp of battle scenarios. In these scenarios, specifically, I noticed that the characters often got lost in what they were doing and who they were doing it to. It was significantly easier to process the scene if it worked with the main characters that had been a part of each story, like Hanuman, Ravana, and Rama. Their actions, whether it was written out differently or not, seemed easier to understand and the reasoning for their actions was usually clear. When it got to external chara...