Janaka with Sunayana had one girl child named Urmila of their own and one adopted that is Sita. Although the Ramayana doesn’t mention the name of Janaka’s wife but her name, as other texts mention, was Sunayana. Let’s know about the family of Janaka in the details. Janaka became the obedient disciple of him and learnt the deep philospophy which can be explored in the Ashtavakra Gita. Ashtavakra was the very intelligent sage but his eight body parts were bent hence his name. He, Hindu texts say, was a seeker of knowledge and that can be learnt in King Janka and Ashtavakra episode. Janaka was the king of Videha Kingdom, which can be traced to region around modern-day Nepal, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. King Janaka, who is often described as Rajarshi-a sage who is also the king, is the father of Sita, the (only) wife of Rama, the hero of the epic. King Janaka Story, Raja Janak 4 Daughters Name in Hindi In the Ramayana, the wife of Rama is Janaki, popularly known as Sita, the princess of Videha kingdom, ruled by King Janaka. The last one, according to the popular belief, was added later into original Ramayana.
Originally chronicled by Valmiki, it compromises almost 24,000 slokas which are divided into seven kandas-Balkanda, Ayodhyakanda, Aranyakanda, Kishkindhakanda, Sundarkanda, Lankakanda, and Uttarakanda.
This is the fourth such blogpost and we will let you know the King Janaka Story here.Īs we have earlier mentioned, Ramayana-the word is made up of Rama+Ayana, which collectively means the journey of Rama-is an ancient Indian Hindu epic whose protagonist is Shri Ramachandra (henceforth Rama) and antagonist being Ravana. We talked about those stories in previous three blogposts.
Ramayana stories series#
Through our series of Ramayana Stories, we are giving information about the Ramayana in every interesting way possible.
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