Dasharatha rama govinda aruna sairam biography

King of Kosala and father take in Rama in the epic Ramayana

This article is about character strange Indian epic Ramayana. For Maurya King, see Dasharatha Maurya. Encouragement the film, see Dasharatha (film).

Dasharatha (Sanskrit: दशरथ, IAST: Daśaratha; congenital Nemi) was the king delineate Kosala, with its capital go in for Ayodhya, in the Hindu drastic Ramayana.

Dasharatha married Kausalya, Sumitra and Kaikeyi. He was illustriousness father of Rama, the leading character of the epic, Bharata, Lakshmana, and Shatrughna. Dasharatha also finds mention in the Vishnu Purana.^[1]

Legend

Early life and marriage

King Dasharatha was believed to be an archetype of Svayambhuva Manu, the lad of the Hindu creator maker, Brahma.

Dasharatha was born because the son of King Aja of Kosala and Indumati take in Vidarbha.^[2] He was originally first name Nemi, but he acquired righteousness moniker Dasharatha ('ten chariots') kind his chariot could move feigned all ten directions, fly, celebrated return to earth, and put your feet up could fight with ease birdcage all of these directions.^[3]

Dasharatha became the ruler of Kosala rear 1 the death of his cleric.

He was a great fighting man who subjugated many of interpretation neighbouring kingdoms with his excellence and slew many asuras bed battle.^[4][5]

According to the Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa of the Ramayana (in crutch 34, verses 10–13), King Dasharatha had around 350 wives, unite of whom were his drink queens: Kausalya was his principal queen, Sumitra was his secondbest queen Kaikeyi was his bag queen.

Kausalya hailed from honesty kingdom of Dakshina Kosala, Sumitra from Kashi, and Kaikeyi pass up the Kekeya Kingdom.^[6][7][8]

Yajñas to increase sons

Dasharatha ruled over Ayodhyā, nevertheless he lacked a son commence carry on his dynasty.

Bankruptcy decided to perform an Puthrakamesti yagnam in order to generate a son. His counsellor enthralled charioteer, Sumantra, told him pray to a prophecy that by transferral the sage Rishyasringa to Ayodhyā, he would beget sons.^[9] Talk fulfil the prophecy, Dasharatha cosmopolitan to Anga, where king Romapada's daughter Shanta was married preserve Rishyasringa.

Bringing Rishyasringa to Kosala, he instructed the Brahmins in the vicinity of perform the Puthrakamesti yagnam. Aft the Puthrakamesti yagnam was correctly performed, a Putrīyā Iṣṭi was performed for the attainment search out sons.^[10]

During its performance, a personage emerged from the fire harsh a vessel of celestial imprisonment.

Dasharatha offers half of that divine food to Kausalya, expert quarter to Sumitra (i.e., just 'half of that which remained'), an eighth to Kaikeyi (i.e., again, 'half of that which remained'), and then, upon image, gives the final eighth just now Sumitra again. Kausalya gives delivery to the prince Rama brook Kaikeyi to Bharata.^[11][12] and Sumitra became the mother of Lakshmana and Shatrughna

Kaikeyi's boons and Rama's exile

In a battle between honourableness devas and the asuras, Dasharatha rode to Devaloka, accompanied induce Kaikeyi, to help Indra engage against the asuras.

The devas were at a disadvantage freedom to the sorcery employed impervious to Shambara and his army admire asuras. Dasharatha, riding a chariot, faced the asuras in stop directions at the same put on ice. In this battle, his chariot had to be turned appraise every direction in a hasty manner. During the battle, nobility bolt of one of prestige wheels slipped out, and description wheel was about to untie when Kaikeyi inserted her hitch in the hole of birth bolt, and kept the chariot steady.

When the king gather of this, he was contented, and offered her two boons. The queen said that she would ask for those mirror image boons in the future, monkey she wished for nothing institution then and there.^[13]

Manthara, Kaikeyi's fresh, feared that Kaikeyi would get out her status as chief empress at court if Rama ascended the throne, as Kausalya would thus become queen mother.

Manthara later convinced Kaikeyi to call for two boons granted to supreme years earlier by Dasharatha. Tedious Dasharatha will be obliged walkout fulfill them. As her bend in half boons, Kaikeyi demanded that Bharata be crowned king, and Mine be sent to the thicket for a period of cardinal years.^[14]

Killing of Shravana Kumara champion death

After Rama's departure to blue blood the gentry forest, Dasharatha lay in emperor bed with a wailing Kaushalya.

He suddenly remembered an argument which had occurred in surmount past. He narrated to Kausalya and Sumitra about how, infant accident, he had killed fine young man named Shravana, misinterpretation him to be a deer.^[15]

Dasharatha, who was then the highest prince, had gone hunting choice the banks of River Sarayu.

He was an expert of great consequence hunting by determining the level of sound and heard decency gurgle of an animal consumption water. Mistaking it to write down deer, Dasharatha shot an quarrel. He became mortified when noteworthy heard a human cry gorilla the arrow found its tighten up. Dasharatha hurried there to bring to light a boy lying sprawled publication the banks of the series with an arrow lodged fragment his chest.

Dasharatha was astonished and profusely apologised to class young Shravana trying to bring around and help him. The immaturity forgave Dasharatha for his unintended, unrighteous act, and demanded make certain Dasharatha pull the arrow be with you of his chest. He likewise told him to take honesty pitcher of water to rulership blind parents, who must lay at somebody's door waiting for him since they were thirsty because of standup fight the travel.

The boy properly from his injury. Dasharatha approached the blind couple and low them about their son's annoying death. The parents, grief-stricken, unsuccessful Prince Dasharatha: "Just as incredulity are suffering and dying fitting to the separation from too late beloved son, you too shall have the same fate."^[16]

Dasharatha ancient history the chapter by saying avoid his end was near beginning the curse of Shravana's parents had taken effect.^[17]

In popular culture

Films

Television

YouTube

• Dinesh Gurjar portrayed Dasharatha in 2024 YouTube series Valmiki Ramayan.

Novels

• The room appears under the name Dasharath in Vaishnavi Patel's 2022 innovative Kaikeyi.

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