History Of Indian Places

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Thanks Aruni. Good information.

One more important event between
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Ram, Lakshman and Sita also visited a place now known as Ramtek, in Vidarbha, on border of MP, AP and Maharashtra. This is a historic place where there exists an ancient temple on the hill, constructed by Rashtrakuta kings. Tradition records that there was Sage Agastya's ashram here, and Rama noticed mounts of human bones of Rishis left behind by Rakshasas. Seeing that, this was the place where Rama took a vow to eliminate all the Rakshasas from earth. That is why the place came to be knows as Ram-Tek ('Promise of Rama'). Later, Kalidas also lived here while writing Meghadutam. There are various other stories of Ram's vanavas in this region.