Rama

This verse repeats the same statement: Rama affirms his firm friendship with Sugriva, the righteous aim of restoring wife and kingdom, and the inviolability of the pledge he made publicly before the vānaras.

Seeing it and growing suspicious, Lakṣmaṇa said to Rāma: “I believe this very deer is none other than the rākṣasa Mārīca.”

Seeing Rāghava and the mighty Lakṣmaṇa, Vālī addressed him with words that were both harsh and framed in dharma: “You are the son of a king—renowned, pleasing to behold, noble-born, virtuous, brilliant, and faithful to right conduct. What…

Then Lakṣmaṇa—an obedient executor of Rāghava’s command—led her into that exceedingly dreadful forest, a place that brings suffering.

The sages said: “Thereafter, O greatly fortunate one, what did that Rāghava do? And what did the great-souled sages do after that?”

"‘Rāma, Rāma,’ thus repeating ‘Rāma,’ I delight in Rāma, O enchanting one. The name ‘Rāma,’ O fair-faced lady, is equal in merit to the thousand names (of the Lord)."

"If beasts are so distraught at parting from him, how will his subjects, and his mother and father, go on living?" Rama sent Sumantra away, though against his will, and then came on his own to the bank of the heavenly river. He asked for a…

Hearing the sound of her bracelets, girdle-bells and anklets, Rama reflected in his heart and said to Lakshmana: "It is as though Kama has beaten his war-drum, having set his heart on conquering the whole world." Having said this, he…

When night had set in, the sage gave the word, and all of them performed their evening prayers. Telling tales and ancient legends, they let two watches of the lovely night slip by. Then the best of sages went and lay down to rest, and the…

Śrī Rāma said: “In the Pampā forest, when we were helpless, O foremost of monkeys, it was you who consoled us—having brought about our friendship with the Sun’s son (Sugrīva).”

There, O brāhmaṇa, a man who bathes is freed from all sins. That pond, it is said, was fashioned by Sītā herself; and by Rāma’s granting of a boon it was made a treasury of great fruits.

Sūta said: Thus, having spent that night there, Raghūttama remained, being reverently attended by all those foremost Vānaras with sincere devotion.