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Story of Rāma in Jain Literature
Sanghadāsa
Valmiki
Vimala
of Kaikeyi (and Dasaratha).
born of Sumitra (and Dasaratha).
Šatrughna- born of Kaikeyi (and Dasaratha).
6. Dasaratha's promising two gifts to Kaikeyi
Once, pleased with her skill in attending to her relations, he offers her one boon and another time, being pleased with her marvellous exploits in a fight with a frontierking, he promises her another boon.
Book II canto 9 tells
Dasaratha wins Kaius that when gods and keyi in the demons fought of old, Svayamvara. The Dasaratha, with Kaikeyi, disappointed kings sped to the war to aid
fight against Indra. He heroically
Dasaratha. In the fought long but at length fight Kaikeyi conducts fell wounded by the de- the chariot of her mon's darts. He fell
husband, who, unconscious, and removed by pleased with her, Kaikeyi from the battle- promises her a boon field and wounded nigh to death, he was by her care restored to health. Well pleased, the great monarch promised to grant her two boons.
7. Manthara's role in the Court-Intrigue
Mantharā instigates Kaikeyi, as in the Välmiki Rámāyaṇa, to send Rāma into exile and get the throne for Bharata by way of fulfilment of the two boons. Sanghadāsa, however, does not speak of any particular period of years for Rama's exile, which according to Valmiki is of 14 years.
Manthară finds no mention in Vimala's account.Kaikeyi seeks throne for Bharata in order to hold him back from entering 'pravrajyä. 'There is no court-intrigue. Rāma voluntarily chooses to lead a forest-life.
