I wrote notes about this scene from the Ramayana PDE I read the previous week so I wanted to do the notes on this scene again but this time written by a different person to focus on some key differences. The first difference is that the scene starts off with the narrator talking about how Kaikeyi is generous and kind but not innocent enough to avoid being persuaded by evil which foreshadows what is coming. In the PDE version, you don't see it coming. Also, Manthara talks about how Rama's mom might take revenge on Kaikeyi for something that Kaikeyi had done to her in the past. Kaikeyi also gets mad and exclaims that Rama must be banished, but in the other version, you don't find out what she was going to do with the 2 boons until the next scene when she talks to the king. Manthara in this version tells Kaikeyi to banish him for 14 years but she never said that in the other version which is why I wrote my story based on the fact that Manthara was not the one who suggested those things to Kaikeyi but in this version, she did.
Manthara and Kaikeyi: Netzone
Bibliography. "Kaikeyi's Scheming" from Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists: Ramayana by Sister Nivedita, web source
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