In every chapter of the Ramayana there is an element of misunderstanding. Dasharatha Raja gives only two of his three wives the stew made from Putrakameshti to avoid unhappiness. Kaikeyi and Kausalya, the Sapatnis, gave Sumitra a share each from their share, and Sumitra had two sons.
In Ahalyamoksha, Gautama’s wife Ahalya is approached by Devendra in the form of sage Gautama and mistaking the satiratna Ahalya for Swapati, Ahalya is turned into stone by Gautama’s curse. The biggest turning point in the Ramayana is through a misunderstanding that Srisaraswatheedevi Manthara’s tongue inculcates the Kutsitabhayas in Kaikeki’s mind. The misunderstood Maharaja Dasaratha has to send his all, Sri Ramachandra, into exile. When Dasharatha Raja was out hunting, hearing the sound of collecting water for his old parents to drink, he shot Sravanakumaran with an arrow, thinking that the elephant was drinking water, and received the curse of the elderly.
Seeing Bharata’s arrival, Guhan mistakes it for Anuja’s departure to fight Jayesh and repents after realizing the truth. On seeing Jatayu, who is wounded in the encounter with Ravana on the way to capture Sita, Sri Rama Lakshmana mistakes him for some evil demon and blesses Jatayu with moksha while preparing for battle. When Marichan lures Sita in the form of Ponman, mistaking it for a golden animal, Lord Rama sends Rama to capture it, then sends Soumitri there, and Ravana disguises himself as a monk and takes Sita away in the Pushpaka Vimana. Finally, Goddess Sita enters the fire to clear the misunderstanding of Sri Ramachandra, a resident of Saketapura.
In this way, the world epic ‘Ramayana’, which is based on the storylines of misunderstandings, presents the images of ordinary life’s idiosyncrasies combined with the rays of self-consciousness, the studies of knowledge, the ego of power and the subsequent fall.