INTRIGUE WASTED

"Kaamadhenu, the cow-mother, had hundreds of thousands of children, yet she shed tears at the sight of the suffering of two bulls yoked to a plough and her tears scalded Indra on his throne in high Heaven. And Kausalya's only child you sent to the forest, hoping thus that you and I could be made happy!

"I shall do the obsequies and go to the forest and fall at the feet of Raama and bring him to his kingdom. And then, to cleanse

myself of the sin and the shame you have brought on me, I shall lead the life of an ascetic in the Dandaka forest.

"What a flood of sorrow have you let loose on the earth? By what penitence, by what self-mortification, can you redeem your self? I shall go myself at once to Raama and get rid of my guilt by restoring the kingdom to him."

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