
An Untold Tale of Lakshmana's Wife and the Fourteen-Year Sleep
The Queen Who Stayed Behind is a children’s picture book about Urmila, the queen the Ramayana almost forgot, and the vow she kept alone for fourteen years. It is written for children aged 6 to 14 and retold from the Valmiki Ramayana, with the sleep episode from later Ram-katha tradition, with the source printed inside the book.



Three pages from the book. Every illustration is printed edge to edge in full colour.