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RY OF CULTURE
 

 
JATA
 
GOVERNMENT OF
 
RAMA AVATARA
 

 
sorrow, fear and weariness. Upholding
the vow of devotion to one wife, living
the life of a royal sage, and remaining
Rama Himself
pure,
observed His
 
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Dharma as a householder, (thereby)
teaching it (to the world).
 
स्मरतां हृदि विन्यस्य विद्धं दण्डककण्टकैः ।
खपादपल्लवं राम आत्मज्योतिरगात्ततः ॥
 
Imprinting in the hearts of those who
remembered Him, His sprout-like feet,
pricked by the thorns of the Dandaka
forests, Rama went away from Ayodhya
to His own effulgent abode.
 
नेदं यशो रघुपतेरसुरयाच्ययाऽऽत्त-
लीलातनोरधिकसाभ्यविमुक्तधाम्नः ।
रक्षोवधो जलधिबन्धनमस्त्रपूगैः
किं तस्य शत्रुहनने कपयः सहायाः ॥
 
This, the annihilation of the demons
and the damming of the ocean with (the
power of) His arrows, is hardly any glory
for that king of the Raghus, who assumed
in sport that form at the entreaty of the