Divine Heroes: the Epic Tradition. The Ramayana is a story of the Hindu religion and some of its most important characters and deities. The basic story of the Ramayana is about Dasharatha’s several sons that were born to his three wives. His eldest son, Rama, is much loved by all of the town’s citizens, and is on the path to succeed his father as king. Rama’s stepmother, Kaikeyi, is very reluctant to …showed first 75 words of 323 total…

…showed last 75 words of 323 total…the reader as someone who has all of those qualities in one-way or another. Rama is truthful and obedient to his father’s requests and never breaks a promise, which is why he ends up being king. In a way this story relates back to Karma, because Rama did everything right, and he did everything he was supposed to do, and at the end of the story it paid off, as he became the king.