Urmila Devi's Slumber
Urmila & Her Exile
Long long ago, one fine day in the past, the sun is overhead and the weather is very bright and sunny but the Mansion of the „Surya Vamsh‟ appears to be gloomy. The king‟s palace is hugely crowded with people flooding in from all parts of the kingdom and neighborhood as well. The whole of the Dasarath‟s castle, everyone had their shoulders dropped, signifying their staunch disappointment in the series of events that occurred leading to the exile of Rama. Janak, indentured by the promise he gave to Kaika is looking helpless and had locked himself inside the room so as to avoid the painful sight of his beloved son leaving all the worldly pleasures. The others in the kingdom were in no less than pain of losing a very vital limb of their body, on losing Rama for 14 years. Sita and Lakshmana granted some sorts of relief are getting ready to accompany Rama on his expatriation. Ironically, the tale on the other side of coin is totally different. Most of the others were worried and saddened by the absence of Rama however Urmila is being bugged by the mere thought of absence of Lakshmana. She burst into tears from the moment she learnt about this sore moment and couldn‟t help do anything but hope to drown her agony in the tear drops. Urmila, the central character of this story, a.k.a. Urmila Devi, is the younger daughter of Janak and also the younger sister of Sita. She has been married to Lakshmana on the same day as that of Sita and Rama. When Rama left Sita believing the words of a washer man, people described the anguish and sorrow of sita, but no one did explain the 14 years of sorrow of urmila when she was left by her husband Lakshmana to accompany his brother Rama to the vanavas. Urmila‟s misery was even worse than that of Sita during the vanavas. When Urmila urges her husband Lakshmana to take her along with him, lakshmana refuses with a reason that she has to take care of her in-laws and even asks her not to shed tears. The painful agonizing
Long long ago, one fine day in the past, the sun is overhead and the weather is very bright and sunny but the Mansion of the „Surya Vamsh‟ appears to be gloomy. The king‟s palace is hugely crowded with people flooding in from all parts of the kingdom and neighborhood as well. The whole of the Dasarath‟s castle, everyone had their shoulders dropped, signifying their staunch disappointment in the series of events that occurred leading to the exile of Rama. Janak, indentured by the promise he gave to Kaika is looking helpless and had locked himself inside the room so as to avoid the painful sight of his beloved son leaving all the worldly pleasures. The others in the kingdom were in no less than pain of losing a very vital limb of their body, on losing Rama for 14 years. Sita and Lakshmana granted some sorts of relief are getting ready to accompany Rama on his expatriation. Ironically, the tale on the other side of coin is totally different. Most of the others were worried and saddened by the absence of Rama however Urmila is being bugged by the mere thought of absence of Lakshmana. She burst into tears from the moment she learnt about this sore moment and couldn‟t help do anything but hope to drown her agony in the tear drops. Urmila, the central character of this story, a.k.a. Urmila Devi, is the younger daughter of Janak and also the younger sister of Sita. She has been married to Lakshmana on the same day as that of Sita and Rama. When Rama left Sita believing the words of a washer man, people described the anguish and sorrow of sita, but no one did explain the 14 years of sorrow of urmila when she was left by her husband Lakshmana to accompany his brother Rama to the vanavas. Urmila‟s misery was even worse than that of Sita during the vanavas. When Urmila urges her husband Lakshmana to take her along with him, lakshmana refuses with a reason that she has to take care of her in-laws and even asks her not to shed tears. The painful agonizing