RAAMA DISCONSOLATE

She charged me with having turned traitor to you and with having come to the forest with treasonable intentions, and, O brother, she found it possible in her anguish to say I would be glad of your death out of sinful intentions to wards herself! I was half dead with horror on hearing those words of hers and then she announced that she would kill herself if I did not go on the instant. Mad herself, she maddened me with her words of reproach and I ran towards you not knowing what else to do."

But Raama was not satisfied. "Whatever a foolish woman might have said in her fright, you should have stayed and not left her unprotected. How could you do such a foolish thing? You have brought calamity on me. I shall never see Seeta again."

The two hurried to the aashrama. Many bad omens appeared on their way. And Raama repeated, as he saw them one by one: "I fear, I fear we shall never see Seeta again!"

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