KUTALAMANIKYAM

Bharata of that celebrated poet, when emerged in flesh and blood from his palm leaf manuscript, dazzled and dazzled that none but himself could stand equal as younger, loyal, regal brother at whose feet altruism falling flat confesses. its inferiority. He is the gem of a man for whom dharma comes first and self next. He is the personification of selflessness - a solidified nissvarthajivi and a mobile Swarthathyaga with none to stand before him in that form and role.

Listen! he simply spurned the Sarvabhoumatva of Kosala desa wrung from the senile but duty - bound Rajadhiraja Dasaratha openly and rudly, expressing his contempt at such extortion; pleaded with streaming eyes for Rama's return to the throne; accepted at last, under heaviest pressure to be the deputy of the legitimate ruler for a long period of 14 years; carried the Ramapadukas on head all through the way to Ayodhya, installed them with due reverence as the in sigma of the exiled brother's scepter; led an ascetic life for full 14 years in a parnasala shunning publicity and eschewing conjugal comforts and imperial privileges; and above all prepared to jump into blazing fire in the event of the brother's failure to turn up on the expiry of the fixed moment to relieve him from royal obligations.

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