The Legend of Ram - Sight Beyond Sight

A Point of Argument

-"Forgive my ignorance, 'O great sage for that we couldn't understand the moral of this storyline; what is the exact point that we are missing here, Maharshi?"

-"War is a kill zone of humanity, Subhamangal! Look over there, near that hummock; what do you see? Can you spot that lad there? Non-Aryan, approximately sixteen years of age! If somebody contradicts and argues that he's fourteen, I won't be surprised. That boy is supposed to enjoy life at this age; life, isn't it Subha? But, against all default rules now he is lying dead there with three arrows in him; in the neck, in the chest, and in the head! Isn't that an irony?"

A moment's silence again, then Maharshi started to speak-

-"It all started with a tiny matter that results in increasing tension between 'Aryans' and Non-Aryans. Imperial politics created this tension between these two races; both the rulers from either side wanted to occupy each other's land to form a unified kingdom under a sole, All-in-all ruler. Accompanied with this sort of imperial aggression, someday the war was raged upon between two races on behalf of the dominance over a small piece of land at the boundary of both the kingdoms; Ayodhya lying at the heart of 'Aryabarta', and 'Avanti', the non-Aryan kingdom residing at the Southern part of this great land between 'Vindhya' mountain range and oceans in the rear. In the preliminary stage which seemed to be a controversy between two kingdoms, later turned out to be an unquenchable feud between two blood-thirsty races. This transformation took place within a very shorter span, within three generations only! Two ancient races were set to murder each other.

Battle, skirmish, murder, abduction – those were set as if a trend, the battle was a regular event! Both the Kingdoms happened to be great and huge in dimension! The Kingdom of 'Avanti' was far-stretched from the foot of Vindhya Mountain to the coastline of the ocean; whereas the Kingdom of 'Ayodhya' spread its wings from The Ganges to the East to the Narmada at the West. No one was eager to keep one's hand out of the dust!

The now King Shailendra of 'Avanti' kingdom had an infirmity to his character; he used to be allured at pretty young and beautiful women easily. Revathi, the daughter to the King Dashapal of 'Ayodhya', is considered as an unmatched beauty and the most talented woman of the entire land of 'Aryabarta'; so there shouldn't be any wonder that she will grab the attention of Shailendra and this is what happened exactly in reality. Shailendra also knew that Revathi is never going to accept him as her fiancé; that is why he started to chalk out some plans to resolve the situation.