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I’M NOT LIkE RAMA WHO ACCEPTS A WIFE \, AFTER SHE HAS LIVED IN 4) ANOTHER’S HOUSE! MAHARAUJ, TODAY A LAUNDERER | WAS BEATING 4| HIS WIFE, AND HE SAID... SHOULD 1 TURN pay WHEE OUT BECAUSE py OF WHAT THE aN ReE SAD?a Pee DAY HE SENT ef YOU WiLL TAKE| SITA INTO THE JUNGLES AND CAXMANMA GOT HIS CHARIOT READY...JUST THEN A SERPENT APPEARED, AETER LAXMANA LEFT FOR AYODHYA, S/TA WAS ALONE IN THE JUNGLE. eeDON’T MAHARSHI WORRY MY]}\ VALMIKI! CHILD - IT’6 YOU! THESE ANIMALS ARE FROM MY HERMITAGE. VALMIK/ TOOK SITA 70 MS HERMITAGE. YOU WILL LIVE HERE. NOTHING WILL VALNURY SS HERMUTAGE BECAME STAS HAVEN SHE WAS BLESSED TH THI SONS.AS THRE PASSED, S1TA'8 TWIN SONS, LUV AND KUSH, GREW U2 HERE | AM, MOTHER, | BOXING THIS DEER’S EARS! BUT THE MAHARSHI MAHARSH, Wp FAUGHT YOU tee YALMIKL PERSONALLY ATTEM 70 74 TO BE CRUEL ENDED TO THEIR EDUCATION, TO ANIMALS! ‘ IT WAS THE DEER WHO WAS BEING |HE TAUGHT THEM THE USE OF ARMS AS WELL, > PULL WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT, THEN LET THE WHAT’S THIS? ARE YOU TWO TRYING TO KILL EACH OTHER? LET'S 60, PRACTISING I’ TIME FOR HOW TO STAY F EACH OTHER'S DINNER!UALMIKI TOLD THEM THE STORY OF THE RAMAYANA, OF HOW RAMA BROKE (HE BOW OF LORD SHIVA AYO WARRIEL AIDE. © KAKEY! BAMSHED RAMA INTO THe, JUNGLES FOR FOURTEEN YEARS. /"'M GOING INTO NS THE JUNGLES TO.) 1 WANT TO KEEP MY FATHERS) | GO WITH PROMISE! you! ONE DAV AS RAMA WENT AFTER A DEER RAVANA KIDWADDED “W THE BATTLE THAT FOLLOW RAUVAWA WAS KILLED BY Mae YOM.|"AFTER SDENDING FOURTEEN YEHES| | ONE DAY, BECAUSE OF WHATA WEXILE, CAA RETURNED 70 AVO-| | LAUNDERER SAID, RAMA DY AND WAS CROMMED RINE.) | BANISHED_VAIDEHI! z Th é VALIWIK? TAUGHT. THEM OF | [EVERY DAV THEY PRACTISED THE ARTS “ VASA” AND SUCH OTHER. OF WAR. THEY ALSO TEL ABOUT MATTERS TOO,| | VAIDEH. 5 I WONDER. HAPPENED a OAR IF EVER WE MEET HER, WELL. BRING HER TO. THE HERMITAGE , THEY DID NOT REALISE THAT ODE WAS OWE OTHER THAW SITA, THEIR MOTHER,MEANAHLE, IN AYODHYA RAIA PREPARED TO PERFOR) THE ASHNAWIEDHA YALA, ALL WERE INATED TO THE YAUNA,RULERS FROM ALL AROUND CAME WITH THEIR ARMIES. | AND, IF NEED_BE,TO FIGHT ON THE SIDE OF RAMA,8UT NARADA HAD SOME THING TO SAY TO WISH, A WHITE HORSE WITH BLACK EARS WAS GOT READY FOR THE YAMA, | 7HE MENTION OF SITA SET RAIMA THIIKING. PEQOLE MAY NOT LIKE (7. AGCOLLEW STATUE WELL HAVE 70 DOL-Soo eee WISHWVANMITKA TIED. THE ee THE HORSE WAS THEN GOLD CEAF ON (HEE E'S FOREHEAD, LET LOOSE AIVD THE f ARMY FOLLOWED IT.AS THE HORSE ENTERED A RULER'S. COMA — WHAT SHALL WE 20, My WE, CAN'T DO ANy- THING. WE ARE TOO WEAK, EVEN RAVANA WAS MANY 4 RULER ACCEPTED LAMBS SCREMACY WITHOUT A FIGHT. LUV AND KUSH SAW THE HORSE FROM ALAR. LOOK AT THIS, LUV. ANYONE WHO. HOLDS THIS HORSE \ WILL HAVE TO FIGHT!LUV AND KUSH ee THE AY TOLOMERS CAME HORSE 70 A TREE 1e TO THEM. CHILDREN! GIVE) THAT. HORS! BACK TO ME SHAME ON YOU FOR BEGGING.QUE OF THE SOLQIERS HASTENED BACK TO SHATRUGHIVA. SIRE! THOSE TWO CHILDREN ARE IMPOSSIBLE | PLL TEACH THEM. HOW TO BEHAVE! LUV, SHOOT AT THE WHEEL! JUST ONE SHOT TOOKAB SHATRUGHMA FELL, RAWAS AMY FLED INV OISARKAY. SOME OF THE SALERS. WENT UP TO RAMA, PVE LOST A SHOE! VICTORY TO \ YES SIRE, THEY MADE HIM FALL CO) ROM HIS By EIN’ oA SHATRUSHNA FALLEN!! | oy, TWO CHILDREN, AND SO BRAVE! WHO COULD THEY BEP YOU TAKE OVER, LAXMANA. GO AND CAPTURE THOSE BO’|. HICH TOOK OFF WITH LAXMANAS HELMET.EMBRACED, LUV CHALLENGED LAXMAWA TOA DUEL.i" RAMA LAS VERY UPSET WHEN HE HEARO THE NEWS. NOW BHARATA, YOU MUST GO AND THE MONKEYS PREARED FOR BATTLE,LOV ANO KUSH EXCHANGE — EO MEAMIVGFUL LOOKS, SAY, LET’S MAKE MON- KEYS OUT OF THESE (MON -DON’T LOSE HEART, HANUMAN, {WILL COME MYSELF, 2,P/ WHO ARE YOUR KNOW ABOUT OUR FATHER FATHER.BUT SITA IS OUR AND MOTHER? MOTHER. BUT WHY ARE YOU SO INTERESTED ANYWAY? | RAMA DECIDED 70 FIND OUT ABOUT THE CHILDREN. WE DO NOT DBer THOUGH THE BOYS DD we KNOW THER FATHER, KAVA RECOGMSED THEV.MS BON DEOPEO FROM HS HANOS. LOOK, HE IS FAINTING! AND JUST BECAUSE OF WHAT WE SAID LET’S GOSOQV LUV AND KUSH HAD \\ "HEY TED AANALY NEAR THE THE MONKEYS AT THéie | |HORSE: THE MONKEYS DEALT WT, LOY ANVO KUSH RETURNED TO KAMA. GOODNESS! CONSCIOUS! ‘WITH THE HORSE AND THE CROWN, LUV ANP KUSH APIRO- ACHED THEIR MOTHER. & HEAVENS! NO! DID YOU KILL HIMP AS RAWIA RECQUERED CONSCIOUSHESS VALUE) BROUGHT LUV ANVO KUSH FO MEET MM. VAIDEHI OF THE RAMA- YVANA IS NONE OTHER THANWON’T YOU SE Mi SITA COULD NOT BEAR THE HUWULIATION ANY WORE, YOU MUST TAKE SITA BACK WITH \ MOTHER ANP EARTH, IE LAM “/(PURE,GATHER | ME TO YOUR LAP! -# HAVING ONCE SENT HER AWAY, HOW CAN Ul.[.. AWD SHIA BEGAN 70 SUUK 1. AND THE EARTH PARTED UNDER HER FEET. OER | IT WAS SAID, SITA HE DO NOT GRIEV MY SONS, i WAS BORN OF T Yo! MOTHER HAS EARTH. THIS PRO- GONE BACK TO / BABL WAS TRUE. HER MOTHER,WITH HIS SONS AND MS ANI, RAMA RETURNED 70 AYOOW" UE, THEY WILL MAKE GREAT RULERS!EPICS & THE SONS MYTHOLOGY OF RAMA No one dared challenge the might of King Rama of Aycdhya. fee ome me te Cl ESR celta Reni aes ed eee RL Rau RW ou TR ae eee Reed two little boys roaming the forest wilds. Luv and Kush laughed at [Pa Roca Dae oe Breer erates ae their war chariots. Little did the king realise that this young duo could Og remo ICUS Ce net aT OTHER ACK Gi ALSO LOOK FOR: = 3%“ URVASHI Nee acon NR ol IN) Raeaa ute oR ac)