Suvarna Nalapat's video: Rama in South India

Did Rama live in South India? Did his sons Lava and Kusa live n South India ? These were some questions asked to me recently. Rama was born in Ayodhya , for a definite purpose of destroying Ravana , and therefore it was mandatory for him to come and live in South India. Story of Ramayanam is that karma of Rama. The visit to Deccan happened even before that, when he came to protect the yajna of Viswamithra from Thadaka and her retinue. The visit of Sabaripeeda and Pampa saras is described in detail in Ramayana. The construction of Nalasethu at the very end of India is also wellknown. These structures are still seen as evidences of his South Indian life.lavakusa were born in Pulppally Valmiki ashram, wynad according to tradition. Regarding the Lava Kusa life in Kerala, the existence of a Cherai Kalari in VanneriNad , who claim to have come to kerala with the soldiers of Lava is there. To know the truth in this claim, we must read a lot of ancient stories. The Parappanad kings of Kerala are Suryavansi , and they have matrimonial relations with Mooshaka Chandravansi Yadava kings of Vannerinad. Lava who lived in wynad has every possibility to have established this branch and then the kalari soldiers accompanying the Suryvansi must also have come there. The fact that Cherayi , the word is retained in all Chandravansi kerala king's centers and the chief of the branch of kings is termed Cheravayil Moop (Chera , vayil door first person) shows the connection with the army chief. Thus anthropologically and literally evidence is there. The many number of Ramaa temples also is noteworthy. Rama must have been respected and worshipped both in south and North alike, from such evidences.