Ramayana is full of interesting characters. Each of them have their background and some bring their own stories to gently merge with the epic, where their stories meet their ends. Let me write about one of the very important characters of Ramayana today. The very nectar of this very great epic is a north indian prince's southward journey in exile with his younger brother and wife and ultimately waging a war against the most powerful king ever born and winning this war, to free his wife. Ramayana is too good a story to be wasted by narrating or reciting it in one monosyllabic way. It has to be looked from different angles and one might eventually ponder that who's story is it, Ram or Ravana's. For, in a broader context, several parallel stories run for generations, all of which find a climax in a special immortal combat in Lanka.
Saumitra is the prince of Ayodhya who accompanies his elder brother to a life in distant forests for 14 years. He is married to Urmila, sister of Sita. With a quiet and unnoticed separation from Urmila, he leaves for exile which was his destiny,as Saumitra, without Urmila, was to be part of a mythology to be sworn by Asian landscape for perpetuity.
Blessed with a silvery look and an unrivaled physique, commanding knowledge and practice in archery and other weapons, he is known to possess a very good demeanor. He is known to lose temper and become aggressive sometimes. Saumitra , none-the-less, is an extension of Rama's controlled aggression and manifestation of 'maryada purushottam' (the best among men in terms of behavior).Many believe that, he and some other characters of the story are incarnations of divine souls who come together to end Ravana's reign as the emperor of all worlds.Unknown to Ravana, thus is a divne plan which gradually takes shape and the story builds up , so that divine forces in a particular combination find way through the loopholes of boons granted to Ravana.
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