Lord Rama

About Lord Rama

Lord Rama (श्रीरामः) is the central figure of the Valmiki Ramayana — the seventh avatar of Lord Vishnu, born in the Ikshvaku (Solar) dynasty as the eldest son of King Dasharatha of Ayodhya and Queen Kausalya. Across the 23,402 shlokas of the epic, Rama is portrayed not merely as a hero but as dharma embodied — Maryāda Puruṣottama, the ideal of righteous conduct for every relationship a man can hold: son, brother, husband, king, friend, and warrior.

Born to destroy the ten-headed rakshasa king Ravana, Rama's life traces an arc of renunciation and restoration. At the eve of his coronation as Yuvaraja of Ayodhya, his stepmother Kaikeyi invokes two boons granted long ago by Dasharatha: the throne for her son Bharata, and fourteen years of forest exile for Rama. Without a moment's protest, Rama leaves the palace for the forest — accompanied by his wife Sita and his devoted younger brother Lakshmana — and begins the journey that takes him through Chitrakoot, Panchavati, Kishkindha, and across the ocean to Lanka.

The heart of the epic is Sita's abduction by Ravana and Rama's war to rescue her — an alliance of vanaras led by Sugriva and Hanuman against the might of Lanka. The bhakti of Hanuman, the loyalty of Lakshmana, the dharma of Vibhishana, and the purity of Sita all illuminate different aspects of Rama's divinity. After Ravana's fall, Rama returns to Ayodhya and is crowned king, inaugurating the Ram Rajya — a golden age of righteous rule that remains the benchmark of dharmic kingship across cultures.