BHADRACHALAM

Apprehending danger to her divine person, if left alone, the dutiful brother drew a line in front of the hermitage and bade her not to cross it under any circumstance, before leaving the asram unwillingly. But she transgressed. And there followed then a disaster of incomprehensible magnitude that drew tears from the incarnated divinity, and can do so even now from stone heart that can withstand my dynamite, to be frank with. The cruel desakanta descending straight here in his Pushpak, begged and beseeched Mother Sita to step out of the Lakshmana Rekha, and ultimately carried that holy Janaki, the ayonija that sent up in smoke all the yonijas of Lanka. Then a series of calamitous misfortunes sprouted from this sacred soil, when the Ayodyapathi lived for a short period here. That is legend which left many vestiges standing as in erasable testimony to the visitation and habitation by Sri Rama. Though this happened in the bygone distant past, its sanctity is still manifest in this region and surging out from the ordeals of true devotees, the beacon lights for the perpetuation of devotion. Now enter the modern world for witnessing the concrete evidence of that abstract reality recorded in legends.

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