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Rolling Assault Fixed a condition where an Astral Arrow gained while using this ability would not deal bonus damage or cripple when consumed. Now costs 25 mana per shot. Basic attacks have had their effects updated to originate from his bow instead of his stomach. Astral Barrage Fixed an issue with this ability dropping astral arrows.
Fixed an issue with ranks slowing for 2s instead of 1s. Fixed an issue where the ability can't be toggled with less than 9 mana. Pick Me Up Rama's allies can no longer pick up his arrows for him. Astral Barrage Fixed rank 2 applying a slow.
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About Smite Wiki Disclaimers Mobile view. Passive - Astral Quiver. Rama's Astral Quiver generates an Astral Arrow every 12s. Also, every basic attack that Rama lands will reduce the amount of time to generate an arrow by 2s. Astral Arrows are used with his other abilities. Rama switches to a more powerful arrow that pierces and slows enemies. This ability consumes 1 of Rama's Astral Arrows and deals bonus damage with every shot.
Rama cannot toggle this ability if he has no Astral Arrows. The slow can be stacked up to 3 times. The pickup adds one Arrow to Rama's Astral Arrow count. Rama gains increased attack speed. Drop chance for Arrow Pickup: Rama performs a roll in the direction he is currently traveling. After performing a dodge roll, for 5s Rama's next basic attack will consume an astral arrow that cripples the target and deals bonus damage.
Rama incurs no movement penalty during this shot. Rama launches into the air and shoots 3 powerful arrows at the ground, each successive shot increasing in damage: Rama will fall down as soon as the 3 arrows have been used, or after 5s have passed.
Rama is untargetable for the duration. Active Cooldown seconds. Active Effect Using this item makes you invulnerable to damage and healing for 1. Active Effect This is a ward that allows you to see normal enemy movements with 45 units. Active Effect Unlocks at level Active Effect This is a ward that allows you to see enemy movements and other wards within 45 units. Rama states that his father should keep his word, adds that he does not crave for earthly or heavenly material pleasures, neither seeks power nor anything else.
He talks about his decision with his wife and tells everyone that time passes quickly. Sita leaves with him to live in the forest, the brother Lakshmana joins them in their exile as the caring close brother. Rama heads outside the Kosala kingdom, crosses Yamuna river and initially stays at Chitrakuta, on the banks of river Mandakini, in the hermitage of sage Vasishtha. The region has numerous Rama temples and is an important Vaishnava pilgrimage site.
After ten years of wandering and struggles, Rama arrives at Panchavati, on the banks of river Godavari. This region had numerous demons rakshasha. One day, a demoness called Shurpanakha saw Rama, became enamored of him, and tried to seduce him. Shurpanakha retaliated by threatening Sita. Lakshmana, the younger brother protective of his family, in turn retaliated by cutting off the nose and ears of Shurpanakha. The cycle of violence escalated, ultimately reaching demon king Ravana, who was the brother of Shurpanakha.
Ravana comes to Panchavati to take revenge on behalf of his family, sees Sita, gets attracted, and kidnaps Sita to his kingdom of Lanka believed to be modern Sri Lanka. Rama and Lakshmana discover the kidnapping, worry about Sita's safety, despair at the loss and their lack of resources to take on Ravana. Their struggles now reach their heights. They travel south, meet Sugriva, marshall an army of monkeys, and attract dedicated commanders such as Hanuman who is a minister of Sugriva.
Rama ultimately reaches Lanka, fights in a war that has many ups and downs, but ultimately prevails, kills Ravana and forces of evil, and rescues his wife Sita. They return to Ayodhya. The return of Rama to Ayodhya is celebrated with his coronation. It is called Rama rajya , described to be a just and fair rule. Upon Rama's accession as king, rumors emerge that Sita may have gone willingly when she was with Ravana; Sita protests that her capture was forced.
Rama responds to public gossip by renouncing his wife, and asking her to undergo a test before Agni fire. She does, and passes the test. Rama and Sita live happily together in Ayodhya, have twin sons named Luv and Kush, in the Ramayana and other major texts. Through death, he joins her in afterlife. Rama's legends vary significantly by the region and across manuscripts. While there is a common foundation, plot grammar and an essential core of values associated with a battle between good and evil, there is neither a correct version nor a single verifiable ancient one.
According to Paula Richman, there are hundreds of versions of "the story of Rama in India, southeast Asia and beyond". The stories vary in details, particularly where the moral question is clear, but the appropriate ethical response is unclear or disputed. In the Indian tradition, states Richman, the social value is that "a warrior must never harm a woman". Similarly, there are numerous and very different versions to how Rama deals with rumors against Sita when they return victorious to Ayodhya, given that the rumors can neither be objectively investigated nor summarily ignored.
The variation and inconsistencies are not limited to the texts found in the Hinduism traditions. The Rama story in the Jainism tradition also show variation by author and region, in details, in implied ethical prescriptions and even in names — the older versions using the name Padma instead of Rama, while the later Jain texts just use Rama.
The historicity of Rama, and when he lived in case he indeed reflected a real individual, is a disputed subject with wide variation among authors. In some Hindu texts, Rama is stated to have lived in the Treta yuga or Dvapar yuga that their authors estimate existed before about 5, BCE, while a few others place Rama to have lived in , 67 or 8 BCE. According to Hasmukh Dhirajlal Sankalia , an Indian archaeologist , who specialised in Proto- and Ancient Indian history, this is all "pure speculation". According to Arthur Bonner, "what may have happened" is that some early Gupta Empire king built his capital on Sarayu river, called this new city as Ayodhya, claimed that Rama was born "millions of years earlier" on this exact spot so as to link his dynasty with the gods, and this belief got widely accepted in India after the Gupta Empire ended.
The composition of Rama's epic story, the Ramayana , in its current form is usually dated between 7th and 4th century BCE. In Brockington's view, "based on the language, style and content of the work, a date of roughly the fifth century BCE is the most reasonable estimate". Rama iconography shares elements of Vishnu avatars, but has several distinctive elements. It never has more than two hands, he holds or has nearby a bana arrow in his right hand, while he holds the dhanus bow in his left.
He is shown black, blue or dark color, typically wearing reddish color clothes. If his wife and brother are a part of the iconography, Lakshamana is on his left side while Sita always on the right of Rama, both of golden-yellow complexion. Rama's life story is imbued with symbolism. According to Sheldon Pollock, the life of Rama as told in the Indian texts is a masterpiece that offers a framework to represent, conceptualize and comprehend the world and the nature of life.
Like major epics and religious stories around the world, it has been of vital relevance because it "tells the culture what it is". Rama's life is more complex than the Western template for the battle between the good and the evil, where there is a clear distinction between immortal powerful gods or heroes and mortal struggling humans. In the Indian traditions, particularly Rama, the story is about a divine human, a mortal god, incorporating both into the exemplar who transcends both humans and gods. A superior being does not render evil for evil, this is the maxim one should observe; the ornament of virtuous persons is their conduct.
A noble soul will ever exercise compassion even towards those who enjoy injuring others. As a person, Rama personifies the characteristics of an ideal person purushottama , [43] He had within him all the desirable virtues that any individual would seek to aspire, and he fulfils all his moral obligations.
Rama is considered a maryada purushottama or the best of upholders of Dharma. According to Rodrick Hindery, Book 2, 6 and 7 are notable for ethical studies. Second, he emphasizes through what he says and what he does a union of "self-consciousness and action" to create an "ethics of character". Third, Rama's life combines the ethics with the aesthetics of living. Rama's life and comments emphasize that one must pursue and live life fully, that all three life aims are equally important: Rama also adds, such as in section 4.
The epic had many versions across India's regions. The followers of Madhvacharya believe that an older version of the Ramayana , the mula-Ramayana , previously existed. The Madhva tradition considers it to have been more authoritative than the version by Valmiki. Versions of the Ramayana exist in most major Indian languages; examples that elaborate on the life, deeds and divine philosophies of Rama include the epic poem Ramavataram , and the following vernacular versions of Rama's life story: The epic is found across India, in different languages and cultural traditions.
Adhyatma Ramayana is a late medieval Sanskrit text extolling the spiritualism in the story of Ramayana. The text represents Rama as the Brahman metaphysical reality , mapping all attributes and aspects of Rama to abstract virtues and spiritual ideals. The Ramayana is a Sanskrit text, while Ramacharitamanasa retells the Ramayana in a vernacular dialect of Hindi language, [71] commonly understood in northern India. Tulsidas was inspired by Adhyatma Ramayana , where Rama and other characters of the Valmiki Ramayana along with their attributes saguna narrative were transposed into spiritual terms and abstract rendering of an Atma soul, self, Brahman without attributes nirguna reality.
It inspires the audience to view their own lives from a spiritual plane, encouraging the virtuous to keep going, and comforting those oppressed with a healing balm. The Ramacharitmanas is notable for being the Rama-based play commonly performed every year in autumn, during the weeklong performance arts festival of Ramlila. Yoga Vasistha is a Sanskrit text structured as a conversation between young Prince Rama and sage Vasistha who was called as the first sage of the Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy by Adi Shankara.
The Yoga Vasistha text consists of six books. Yoga Vasistha is considered one of the most important texts of the Vedantic philosophy. Another historically and chronologically important text is Raghuvamsa authored by Kalidasa. It mentions that Ayodhya was not the capital in the time of Rama's son named Kusha, but that he later returned to it and made it the capital again. This text is notable because the poetry in the text is exquisite and called a Mahakavya in the Indian tradition, and has attracted many scholarly commentaries. It is also significant because Kalidasa has been dated to between the 4th and 5th century CE, suggesting that the Ramayana legend was well established by the time of Kalidasa.
The Mahabharata has a summary of the Ramayana. The Jainism tradition has extensive literature of Rama as well, but generally refers to him as Padma, such as in the Paumacariya by Vimalasuri. The chapter 4 of Vishnu Purana , chapter of Padma Purana , chapter of Garuda Purana and chapters 5 through 11 of Agni Purana also summarize the life story of Rama. Rama's story has had a major socio-cultural and inspirational influence across South Asia and Southeast Asia.
An Outline of the Religious Literature of India. Studies in Ritual Behaviour. Transnationalism in Ancient and Medieval Societies: His siblings included Lakshmana , Bharata , and Shatrughna. Hindus and Muslims in India. Shiva's boon grants the demon-king invulnerability against gods and beasts.
Few works of literature produced in any place at any time have been as popular, influential, imitated and successful as the great and ancient Sanskrit epic poem, the Valmiki Ramayana. According to Arthur Anthony Macdonell , a professor at Oxford and Boden scholar of Sanskrit, Rama's ideas as told in the Indian texts are secular in origin, their influence on the life and thought of people having been profound over at least two and a half millennia. Rama Navami is a spring festival that celebrates the birthday of Rama. The festival is a part of the spring Navratri , and falls on the ninth day of the bright half of Chaitra month in the traditional Hindu calendar.
Rama or Ram also known as Ramachandra, is a major deity of Hinduism. He is the seventh avatar of the god Vishnu, one of his most popular incarnations along . Rama is the legendary Indian king regarded as an incarnation of Vishnu. Rama may also refer to: Contents. 1 Within the scriptures of India; 2 People. Kings.
This typically occurs in the Gregorian months of March or April every year. The day is marked by recital of Rama legends in temples, or reading of Rama stories at home. Some Vaishnava Hindus visit a temple, others pray within their home, and some participate in a bhajan or kirtan with music as a part of puja and aarti.
The festival is an occasion for moral reflection for many Hindus. Rathayatras, the chariot processions, also known as Shobha yatras of Rama, Sita, his brother Lakshmana and Hanuman , are taken out at several places. Rama Navami day also marks the end of the nine-day spring festival celebrated in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh called Vasanthothsavam Festival of Spring , that starts with Ugadi. Some highlights of this day are Kalyanam ceremonial wedding performed by temple priests at Bhadrachalam on the banks of the river Godavari in Bhadradri Kothagudem district of Telangana , preparing and sharing Panakam which is a sweet drink prepared with jaggery and pepper, a procession and Rama temple decorations.
Rama's life is remembered and celebrated every year with dramatic plays and fireworks in autumn. This is called Ramlila , and the play follows Ramayana or more commonly the Ramcharitmanas. In some parts of India, Rama's return to Ayodhya and his coronation is the main reason for celebrating Diwali , also known as the Festival of Lights. In Guyana , Diwali is marked as a special occasion and celebrated with a lot of fanfare.
It is observed as a national holiday in this part of the World and some ministers of the Government also take part in the celebrations publicly. Just like Vijayadashmi, Diwali is celebrated by different communities across India to commemorate different events in addition to Rama's return to Ayodhya. For example, many communities celebrate one day of Diwali to celebrate the Victory of Krishna over the demon Narakasur. Rama's life story, both in the written form of Sanskrit Ramayana and the oral tradition arrived in southeast Asia in the 1st millennium CE.
The Ramayana was translated from Sanskrit into old Javanese around CE, while the performance arts culture most likely developed from the oral tradition inspired by the Tamil and Bengali versions of Rama-based dance and plays. Other than the celebration of Rama's life with dance and music, Hindu temples built in southeast Asia such as the Prambanan near Yogyakarta Java , and at the Panataran near Blitar east Java , show extensive reliefs depicting Rama's life.
In the 14th century, the Ayutthaya Kingdom and its capital Ayuttaya was named after the Hindu holy city of Ayodhya, with the official religion of the state being Theravada Buddhism. In Jainism , the earliest known version of Rama story is variously dated from the 1st to 5th century CE. This Jaina text credited to Vimalasuri shows no signs of distinction between Digambara-Svetambara sects of Jainism , and is in a combination of Marathi and Sauraseni languages. These features suggest that this text has ancient roots. In Jain cosmology , characters continue to be reborn as they evolve in their spiritual qualities, until they reach the Jina state and complete enlightenment.
This idea is explained as cyclically reborn triads in its Puranas, called the Baladeva , Vasudeva and evil Prati-vasudeva. Jain texts tell a very different version of the Rama legend than the Hindu texts such as by Valmiki. The Rama of Jainism has numerous wives as does Lakshmana, unlike the virtue of monogamy given to Rama in the Hindu texts. Towards the end of his life, Rama becomes a Jaina monk then successfully attains siddha followed by moksha. In the Jain version, Lakshmana and Ravana both go to the hell of Jain cosmology, because Ravana killed many, while Lakshmana killed Ravana to stop Ravana's violence.
The Dasaratha-Jataka Tale no. It calls Rama as Rama-pandita. At the end of this Dasaratha-Jataka discourse, the Buddhist text declares that the Buddha in his prior rebirth was Rama:. The Master having ended this discourse, declared the Truths, and identified the Birth While the Buddhist Jataka texts co-opt Rama and make him an incarnation of Buddha in a previous life, [95] the Hindu texts co-opt the Buddha and make him an avatar of Vishnu. Rama is mentioned as one of twenty four divine incarnations of Vishnu in the Chaubis Avtar , a composition in Dasam Granth traditionally and historically attributed to Guru Gobind Singh.
Rama is a revered Vaishanava deity, one who is worshipped privately at home or in temples. He was a part of the Bhakti movement focus, particularly because of efforts of poet-saint Ramananda who created the Ramanandi Sampradaya , a sannyasi community. This sampradaya has grown to become the largest Hindu monastic community in modern times. Temples dedicated to Rama are found all over India and in places where Indian migrant communities have resided.
In most temples, the iconography of Rama is accompanied by that of his wife Sita and brother Lakshmana. In some instances, Hanuman is also included either near them or in the temple premises. Hindu temples dedicated to Rama were built by early 5th century, according to copper plate inscription evidence, but these have not survived. The oldest surviving Rama temple is near Raipur Chhattisgarh , called the Rajiva-locana temple at Rajim near the Mahanadi river. It is a Vishnu temples complex dated to be from the 7th-century with some restoration work done around CE based on epigraphical evidence.
Important Rama temples include: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the Hindu god, the seventh avatar of Vishnu, and the King of Kosala: For other Ram, see Ram disambiguation. For other Ramchandra, see Ramchandra disambiguation. For other uses, see Rama disambiguation. Bharata Ramayana , Lakshmana , and Shatrughna. Ravana , Jatayu Ramayana , Hanuman , and Vibheeshana. Responding to evil A superior being does not render evil for evil, this is the maxim one should observe; the ornament of virtuous persons is their conduct.
Human effort can be used for self-betterment and that there is no such thing as an external fate imposed by the gods. List of Hindu festivals. Rama in Jainism and Salakapurusa. Hinduism portal Hindu mythology portal Indian religions portal India portal. This may be because the concept and legends have deeper ancient roots. The Buddha idol of Kosala is important in the Theravada Buddhism tradition, and one that is described by the 7th-century Chinese pilgrim Xuanzhang.
He states in his memoir that the statue stands in the capital of Kosala then called Shravasti, midst ruins of a large monastery. He also states that he brought back to China two replicas of the Buddha, one of the Kosala icon of Udayana and another the Prasenajit icon of Prasenajit. He suggests either vocally repeating the name jap or silent repetition in mind ajapajap. This concept of Rama moves beyond the divinized hero, and connotes "all pervading Being" and equivalent to atmarama within.
The term atmarama is a compound of "Atma" and "Rama", it literally means "he who finds joy in his own self", according to the French Indologist Charlotte Vaudeville known for her studies on Ramayana and Bhakti movement. Lochtefeld , p.