Kaikeyi | Ramayan Characters | Sagar World

Kaikeyi was one of the three wives of King Dasharath.
She was the mother of Bharat.Later, Dasharatha, with the approval of the royal assembly, selected Rama to be crowned King. However, Manthara, Kaikeyi's nurse, became worried that Kaikeyi would lose her status as Chief Queen at Court if Rama ascended the throne, as Kaushalya would thus become Queen Mother. She decided to instigate trouble. She tried to fuel Kaikeyi's jealousy and envy of Kaushalya by reminding her that her son's coronation would give Kaushalya her former status as the most important of Dasharath's Queens and would cut Bharat out of the royal lineage forever.
Manthara later convinced Kaikeyi to demand the two boons granted to her years earlier by Dasharath. King Dasharath was obliged to fulfill them. Kaikeyi demanded that Bharat be crowned king and Rama be sent to the forest for fourteen years.

After sending Rama into exile, a grief-stricken Dasharath died of a broken heart six days after Rama left Ayodhya.
Furthermore, Bharat swore never to ascend the throne as it was his older brother's birth-right. He further blamed her for his father's death and swore never to address her as Mother again. He also cursed her saying that no father shall hereafter name his daughter Kaikeyi.
Realising her mistake, Kaikeyi repented sending her most beloved son away for 14 years.
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