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Rahasya: The story of Dashratha and Shravan Kumar

News Nation Bureau 31 July 2016, 03:57 PM

According to the legend in Ramayana, while hunting in the forest of Ayodhya, then-Prince Dashratha heard a sound near a lake and unleashed an arrow, hoping to hit an animal. When he crossed the lake to collect his kill, he found that his arrow had fatally struck a teenage boy who was bleeding. The boy, Shravan Kumar, told Dasaratha, that he had come to the lake to collect water for his sick and aged parents, who were both blind and who he had been carrying on a sling. News Nation tries to unveil the truth of Dashratha's treasury.

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