Rama and Sita

What you need to know before your trail

Prince Rama had a beautiful wife named Sita. However, there was a demon king, by the name of Ravana. He was a strange looking creature with twenty arms, ten heads,  who was the most featured king in the land. He wanted Sita to be his wife and so one day he kidnapped her but Sita was smarter than he thought and she left a trail of jewellery for Rama to follow.

Rama followed the trail of glittering jewellery until he met the monkey king, Hanuman, who became his friend and agreed to help find Sita, spreading the word around all the other monkeys. After a very long search, Hanuman found Sita imprisoned on an island. They had to build a bridge before they could go and rescue  them.

Rama killed the evil Ravana with a magic arrow, and then everyone was happy! rejoiced. Rama and Sita began their long journey home and everybody lit lamps to guide them along the way and to welcome them back home

Ever since that day, people light lamps at Diwali to remember that light triumphs over dark and good triumphs over evil.