Who is the daughter of Dasaradhan ?

Ratheesh P.R.'s picture
Submitted by Ratheesh P.R. on Mon, 07/27/2009 - 15:26.

Dasaradhan had four sons. SreeRam, Laxman, Bharathan & Sathrugnan. Seetha & Oormila were the wives of SreeRam & Laxman respectively. But Dasaradhan had an own daughter. Who was that ?

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the daughter of Dasaradhan !
Mon, 07/27/2009 - 15:35 — billa

In Ramayana ,Dasharatha and Kaushalya also had a daughter named 'Shanti' and she was married to 'Ekashringa'.Shanti was a handicap child when she was given in adoption to Romapada,the king of Angadesa.

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Shanti -daughter of Dasaratha
Mon, 07/27/2009 - 16:46 — lima

First he married Kausalya. From Kausalya, only one daughter was born. She was named Shanti, or "peace." But Dasaratha had no peace, because he only had one daughter, and that daughter would only get marriedand go to another dynasty. The Vedic system is that when a woman marries, she belongs to the husband's gotra or family line. So if Shanti married to another dynasty, she would belong to it.Then he married Sumitra. At least Kausalya had a daughter, but Sumitra had no child. Then Dasaratha was getting old. He gave up the idea ofproducing dynasties. As he was getting older he saw that some lesspowerful kings were doing small yajnas, so he did big yajnas.

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