Rama, Sita, and the Demon King
Classical Stories · No. 19 — The exiled prince, the stolen queen, and a bridge across the sea.
- Classical Stories
- 43 min
- Ages 8–13
- 6 chapters
About this audiobook
On the eve of Rama's coronation, an old promise is called in: his father owes Queen Kaikeyi two boons, and she claims them — her own son crowned, and Rama exiled to the forest for fourteen years. Rama accepts with a calm that has amazed listeners for two thousand years; Sita and his brother Lakshmana refuse to be left behind. The forest years are almost happy — until a golden deer, a crossed line, and the demon king Ravana's flying chariot take Sita to the island fortress of Lanka, and the greatest rescue in world literature begins.
Why it's worth a listen
One of the most beloved stories on Earth, told for thousands of years and still celebrated every autumn in lamplight. A prince keeps a promise that costs him a throne; a queen's courage outshines her captor's whole golden city; a monkey hero leaps an ocean in a single bound. Adventure on the grandest possible scale, wrapped around the hardest questions about duty and love.
A question to keep
When keeping a promise costs you everything, what makes a person keep it anyway?
Chapters
- The Promise of Ayodhya
- Into the Great Green Wild
- The Flight of the Demon King
- The Leap of the Monkey King
- The Bridge of Stones
- A Question to Keep