Casey's Blogs: Indian Epics 4993-995

Rama In this Wikipedia page, I discovered that Rama's life story is full of symbolism. In many Indian texts, his purpose is to represent, conceptualize, and comprehend the world and the nature of life. His story differs from western religious epics in that he is a divine human, a mortal god, incorporating both into the exemplar who transcends both humans and gods. Rama Navami This is a Hindu festival that celebrates the birthday of lord Rama. This is important because Rama is important to the Vaishnavism tradition of Hinduism as the seventh avatar of Vishnu. The festival celebrates the descent of god Vishnu as Rama avatar, through his birth to King Dasharatha and Queen Kausalya in Ayodhya. Dasharatha He is the descendant of the Raghuvanshalkshvaku-Suryavansha dynasty and the Maharaja of Ayodhya. He is the son of Aja and Indumati. He had three wives Kausalya, Kaikeyi, and Sumitra. With his wife Sumitra, they had Rama the 7 incarnations of Vishnu. Sumitra She is the third w...

I looked more into the Pandava brothers on Wikipedia. I specifically looked at Arjuna who is the third Pandava brother. His name means earning and that he a very virtuous person. He is very focused and has complete devotion to Krishna. My second page was completely devoted to Arjuna himself. In pop culture and modern references, he is mentioned a decent amount. The name Arjuna is a popular name for many Hindu male children. There is also a series of asteroids that are named after Arjuna. The Arjuna Award is presented to a male athlete every year for their achievement. Lastly Arjun is the name of a third generation battle tank in the Indian Army. The third page I looked at was the Arjuna asteroids. They are a dynamic group of asteroids in the solar system. They are near Earth objects whose orbit is very earth like. They have low inclination and periods that are similar to earth. The fourth page I looked up was near earth objects. They are object that orbit earth closely. It is considere...