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AYODHYAKANDA
 
grass, Rama, highly
lamenting, uttered these words :
 
distressed
 
इदं भुङ्क्ष्व महाराज प्रीतो यदशना वयम् ।
यदन्नः पुरुषो भवति तदन्नास्तस्य देवताः ॥
 
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"O mighty monarch, feed on
 
this
 
That
 
which we feed on, and be satisfied.
which is the food of a person is the food
of his gods."
 
ततः पर्णकुटीद्वारम् आसाद्य जगतीपतिः ।
परिजग्राह बाहुभ्याम् उभौ भरतलक्ष्मणौ ॥
 
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and
 
Then, reaching the threshold of the
hermitage, Rama, the lord of the world,
embraced with his arms both Bharata
and Lakshmana.
 
अचिरप्रोषितं रामं चिरविप्रोषितं यथा ।
द्रष्टुकामो जनस्सर्वो जगाम सहसाऽऽश्रमम् ॥
 
All the people then went to the hermit-
age with the desire of seeing Rama, who
had been away only for a short time, as
though he had been away for a long
time.
 
वसिष्ठः पुरतः कृत्वा दारान् दशरथस्य च ।
अभिचक्राम तं देशं रामदर्शनतर्षितः ॥