Week 7 Reading Diary B: Bucks Ramayana

• Rama, Hanuman and Sita make their way back to Nandigram.
• They stopped  to reminisce at the spot where Hanuman and Rama first met years before.
• Hanuman is then sent to Nandigram to inform Bharata that Rama and Sita are coming. 
• On arriving there was a great deal of celebrating. 
• Bharata puts Rama's sandals back on for him as a symbol of regaining the Kingship.
• Sugriva gives Rama all the water of worlds rivers to Rama as a present.
• Hanuman gets a pearl necklace from Sita.
• Everyone was dancing in the streets celebrating.
• Apparently during Ramas reign animals could talk.
• Rama ruled from Ayodhya.
• Sita becomes pregnant.
• Rama asked his ministers what the people thought of him and they told him they love him.
• The ministers also said people believe Sita was touched by Ravana.
• Rama then decides he must go to the Ganges and abandon Sita.
• Abandoned on the Ganges, she is beckoned to jump into the waters and kill herself.
• Valmiki sees this and rescues Sita from killing herself.
• He takes her into his hermitage where she gives birth to Kusha and Lava.
• They live in the hermitage for 12 years.
• At the year long festival Rama holds in the woods, Kusha and Lava sing the story of Rama.
• They are recognized and Sita is allowed to argue her innocence.