One important point is that this "Law" is always the same no mater how many lifetimes have passed by. The story states that future Buddhas would preach the same "Law" to all creatures, thus creating a sense of "Sameness", a sense of unity. And this was to be emulated by the South East Asian leaders, to preach a common ideology in the hope of unifying his people. South East Asian leaders proliferated Buddhist texts around their kingdom, to propagate this common ideology and thus to create a sense of "Sameness" around their kingdoms.
A king would want to instill good moral values among his people and the stories from the Ramayana and Buddha"tms Life help to further emphasize the importance of good values. From the Ramayana, the stories usually revolve around the theme of good triumphing over evil. For example, how Rama would kill demons to protect the Sage. And good values and morals and explained in stories like "Ahalya"tms story" where the woman was turned into stone, for being unfaithful to her husband, for eternity until someone pure and filled with good values touches it. These stories serve to further emphasize the importance of having good values or fac
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As Indian epics infiltrated into the South Asian communities and cultures, the locals began adapting these stories with their own figures. For example, original characters such as Rama were replaced by local kings or leaders plus parts of the stories were changed to give it a more local flavour. The stories may have been slightly changed so that the South East Asian people are able to grasp the values and morals these stories depicted easily. But problems arose when different versions of the stories came about thus bringing about slightly different results and hence would not have a complete unifying effect that kings and leaders were looking for.
Thus in this way, South East Asian people localized the epics to make it easier for them to understand and to identify with such stories so that it can be applied to everyday life. Being faithful and loyal to ones parents is another theme found in the Ramayana and the life of Buddha and this can been seen in the Folk tales in stories like "The fortune teller of pagan" where the fortune teller felt extreme "remorse" for cutting off his own father"tms tongue. Localizing such epics, would make the underlying messages easier to spread and the locals would find stories like these interesting like how the Indians found their own epics interesting.
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