ALONE BY THEMSELVES

While Raama was plunged in thinking of the mothers left behind, Lakshmana ministered to him with loving words of course age and hope.

They spent that night under a banyan tree and left early next morning for Bharadwaaja's aashrama which they reached at sun set.

Partaking of the hospitality of the sage, they besought him to tell where they could spend the years quietly in the forest and on his advice and with his blessings left for Chitrakoota.