In Kamban Raamaayana also, addressing his brother 'raging like the fire of
Dissolution,' Raama says: "It is not the river's fault that the bed is dry. Even so,
my going hence is not that the King's fault, nor Queen Kaikeyi's nor her son's. The wrong
is the work of fate. Why should one be angry then?"
This explanation calmed Lakshmana for a
while. But soon his anger boiled up again. He said: "Very well, then. This is the
work of fate. Fate, I grant, is the cause of our step-mother's sudden folly. And I am not
angry with her. But are we, on that account, to sit still and do nothing? It is Kshatriya
dharma to overcome evil and establish justice. |
