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How a tradition frames it · 2 tellings

Rama the monk and Krishna the cousin

Jain tellings keep Rama and Krishna as great men in a fixed roster of sixty-three: Lakshmana kills Ravana, Rama becomes a monk, and Krishna is Neminatha's cousin.

Rama, Lakshmana, Ravana, Krishna

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