yuddha kAnDam – The grand reunion

• 6.001. The rewarding embrace
• 6.002. The friend comforts and exhorts
• 6.003. Feigned captivity of hanumAn pays off!
• 6.004. They move for the conquest
• 6.005. Ah, the cruel distance!
• 6.006. The demons confer
• 6.007. Counsellors turn sycophants
• 6.008. The demons exude overconfidence
• 6.009. Lone and sane voice rises in lanka
• 6.010. Wise counsel falls on twenty deaf ears!
• 6.011. Decisive assembly of the demons called
• 6.012. Admonition and assurance
• 6.013. rAvaNa reveals his dark secret
• 6.014. vibhIshaNa speaks truth to power
• 6.015. vibhIshaNa blasts indrajit
• 6.016. Insulted and insinuated, vibhIshaNa takes a stand
• 6.017. A contrasting assembly!
• 6.018. rAma, tavAsmi – I am yours
• 6.019. lanka has a king-designate
• 6.020. The ultimate Refuge, even of the enemy – rAma
• 6.021. Whose wrath even the gods fear!
• 6.022. The ocean falls in line and the bridge is built
• 6.023. The omens of a great battle ahead
• 6.024. rAma draws strategy, rAvaNa thumps chest
• 6.025. Ultimatum using the enemy’s spies!
• 6.026. Profiling the enemy camp
• 6.027. The profiling continues…
• 6.028. An ocean of an army ready to take lanka
• 6.029. Different spies, same story!
• 6.030. The battle beckons
• 6.031. The trickster is at it again
• 6.032. In her love, she forgets His valour and grieves
• 6.033. saramA, the good samaritan
• 6.034. sItA employs a spy!
• 6.035. mAlyavAn speaks truth to the power
• 6.036. Power abhors truth!
• 6.037. rAma marks out the enemy warriors
• 6.038. From a vantage point
• 6.039. The astonishing lanka in the lap of nature
• 6.040. sugrIva’s daring assault
• 6.041. lanka under siege as the final warning is served
• 6.042. The battle begins
• 6.043. Rampaging vAnaras draw the first blood
• 6.044. Overwhelmed indrajit goes invisible
• 6.045. Hiding behind magic, the coward attacks
• 6.046. vAnaras battle gloom
• 6.047. The demon king day-dreams
• 6.048. trijaTa to the fore, again
• 6.049. Despair in the camp
• 6.050. A friend in need is garuDa indeed!
• 6.051. dhUmrAksha to the fore
• 6.052. hanumAn decimates dhUmrAksha
• 6.053. vajradanshTra on his way…
• 6.054. vajradanshTra vanquished by angada
• 6.055. Out goes akampana, ignoring the omens
• 6.056. hanumAn accounts for akampana
• 6.057. Desperate rAvaNa casts his chief
• 6.058. nIla pulverizes prahasta
• 6.059. rAvaNa destroyed and spared!
• 6.060. Awakening of the sleeping giant
• 6.061. The making of the sleeping giant
• 6.062. rAvaNa confides his fear to his brother
• 6.063. The last and the lost counsel
• 6.064. A yes-man schemes
• 6.065. The giant sets off
• 6.066. Valiant angada rallies his scared mates
• 6.067. The undefeated giant falls to rAma
• 6.068. Ruinous feeling hits rAvaNa
• 6.069. Demons seek revenge, narAntaka nullified
• 6.070. Bravo! Team rAma knock five demons down
• 6.071. lakshmaNa accounts for atikAya
• 6.072. A fleeting moment of realization
• 6.073. Invisible indrajit devastates the enemy
• 6.074. Heroic hanumAn rescues them all
• 6.075. lanka gutted again and the battle resumes
• 6.076. The vAnara prince and the king win the day
• 6.077. nikumbha nixed by hanumAn
• 6.078. makarAksha hurtles to the battle
• 6.079. rAma slays makarAksha
• 6.080. indrajit back to the battle
• 6.081. A devastating trick
• 6.082. A poignant hanumAn attacks and reflects
• 6.083. Poignant lakshmaNa weighs in on dharma
• 6.084. vibhIshaNa to the rescue
• 6.085. rAma deploys lakshmaNa on a mission
• 6.086. indrajit forced out of nikumbhilA
• 6.087. vibhIshaNa serves the final warning
• 6.088. lakshmaNa and indrajit in fierce face off
• 6.089. indrajit grounded in an engaging battle
• 6.090. lakshmaNa accomplishes the mission
• 6.091. lakshmaNa secures praise that matters
• 6.092. For once, good counsel prevails
• 6.093. rAma annihilates!
• 6.094. Fear and laments grip lanka
• 6.095. No one to shield him, rAvaNa out to war
• 6.096. sugrIva vanquishes virUpAksha
• 6.097. Swift sugrIva slays the mighty mahOdara
• 6.098. angada clears the way for rAvaNa
• 6.099. The ultimate face off begins
• 6.100. rAma shows why he is the greatest
• 6.101. Revived lakshmaNa exhorts rAma
• 6.102. The ultimate battle rages on
• 6.103. Charioteer saves his fear-stricken master
• 6.104. rAvaNa rebukes and then rewards
• 6.105. Aditya hRdayam – the conquest conferring hymn to the Sun
• 6.106. Ominous signs surround rAvaNa
• 6.107. The battle like no other rages on
• 6.108. Vanquisher rAma reigns supreme
• 6.109. vibhIshaNa laments, rAma comforts
• 6.110. Wives reflect on rAvaNa
• 6.111. The end of enmity
• 6.112. rAma crowns vibhIshaNa
• 6.113. hanumAn brings good news
• 6.114. She sees him!
• 6.115. The king’s dharma brings a twist
• 6.116. sItA gives a fiery reply
• 6.117. Gods rush to remind rAma!
• 6.118. The grand reunion
• 6.119. daSaratha finds peace
• 6.120. They earn his gratitude and their life
• 6.121. rAma longs to meet bharata
• 6.122. They too want to be in ayOdhyA
• 6.123. Rewind, replay and ayOdhyA in sight!
• 6.124. A brief halt before entering ayOdhyA
• 6.125. bharata’s Joy returns…
• 6.126. bharata’s pining bears fruition
• 6.127. The grand reunion
• 6.128. The rAma rAjya

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