Ramayana Rama is described to have undertaken a period of
vanavasa for 14 years in the forest of
Panchavati, accompanied by his wife
Sita and younger brother,
Lakshmana. This was invoked by
Kaikeyi as one of her two boons from her husband, King
Dasharatha, desiring her son
Bharata to be the successor to the throne of
Ayodhya.
Mahabharata The
Pandavas and
Draupadi were exiled from the kingdom of
Hastinapura by their cousin
Duryodhana and his uncle
Shakuni after they lost in a game of dice with them and their common wife, Draupadi, was humiliated in the court before the elders. A chapter in the epic is called the Arjuna-vanavasa parva, focussing on the experiences of
Arjuna. ==References==