Why was there ajnata vasa in Mahabharata, but not in Ramayana?
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Why was there no Ajnaatvas for Lord Ram and there was Ajnaatvas for the Pandavas when both of them were exiled? Answer. The two contexts are entirely different. Kaikeyi wanted, primarily wanted her son to be the king.
And because she wanted Bharata to reinforce his hold on the kingdom, get a hold and to reinforce the hold. So, at the instigation of Mantara, she said that send Ram out of the kingdom for adequately long, adequate enough time by which Bharata can win over the people to his side. And then even after he comes back, Bharata will have a hold.
That was the idea. But in the case of the Kauravas, when they exiled the Pandavas, Duryodhana actually had no intention of getting, of giving the kingdom back. And that became apparent when he refused to even give five villages when Krishna came as Shanti Duta.
But so the plot of, the provision of Ajnaatvas was done. He, Shakuni, Dushasan and Karna had hatched that plot so that they could, they felt that the Pandavas, being so famous, it would be almost impossible for them to stay, stay concealed. And because he felt that it would be impossible for them to stay concealed.
So they decided that they, so they had that Ajnaatvas provision. And actually during that Ajnaatvas, after the 12 years got over in the 13th year, Duryodhana sent hundreds and hundreds of spies everywhere. And his hope was that if he could just take the Pandavas, then again, they would have to go for 12 years to Vanvas with one year Ajnaatvas.
And in this way, he hoped that he could keep them lifelong in forest and thus enjoy the kingdom lifelong. So the provision of, the condition of Ajnaatvas which Duryodhana had imposed was for the sake of perpetuating the sentence of exile lifelong. Of course, by the Pandavas expertise and the Lord’s mercy, Duryodhana’s scheme did not succeed.
But the point is that because the context were different and because Kaikeyi had no, certainly did not have that kind of deep rooted envy and malevolence towards Ram, that Duryodhana had towards the Pandavas. So Kaikeyi did not need any such, did not put any such provision of Ajnaatvas