AYODHYA
The Earthly August Seat of Dharma

They made themselves amarajivis for memorable deeds, such as valorous Paranjeya has the honour of being carried by Indra in the form of bull during his war against remorseless asuras, and hence gaining the title Kakutsa; Bhagirtha pleasing Maha Vishnu and Maheswar with his severe tapas for bringing Goddess Ganga down to liberate his ancestors; Samrat-sage Mandhata, releasing from imprisonment Ravana, the demon king of Lanka at the entreaty of Brahma, besides the fortune of sucking the thumb of Indra in his infacy for living; Dilip's magnanimous offering of his own body to the hungry ferocious lion holding to ransom Nandini, the celestial cow, for tending of which he followed to the dense forests at the behest of sages; truthful Harishchandra making the Omnipotent God and Devendra rush down to stopping the killing his own wife, for the sake of keeping up the word given, besides educating the adament Viswamitra; Ambarshia making the potent Sudarsana Chakra, forming an integral of his corporal body to protect him against pretadhamas, and reforming the short tempered Durvasa; Raghu performing one hundred yagas besides the Viswajina yaga and giving away in dana all his possessions, including kingdom, true to the tenets of yaga, and imploring .Kubera to gift money, for helping a deserving arthi; Dasaratha leading his army at the humble request of Devendra to kill the demon Sambhasura, the formidable enemy of Devaloka, in addition to performing several yagas.

Into such imperial household, and to that gallant venerable Dasaratha Sri Rama was born as son, who by his triple motto-one wife, one word, one arrow entered into the innermost recess of heart of every devotee, blessing him with inexplicable beatitude. 

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