Ramayana
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Books By Rajaji

TO THE FOREST

"Do not touch me," said Dasaratha to Kaikeyi. "I bate the sight of you, sinful woman! Everything is at an end between you and me. I renounce you here and now."

"If Bharata agrees to your arrangements and accepts the kingdom," he said again, "be need not perform my obsequies, and even if he did, my departed spirit would reject his offering of waters."

"How can Raama live in the forest? Will he sleep on the bare ground with a stone or a log for a pillow? Will he eat fruits and berries?"

Thus the king went on lamenting helplessly.

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