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AYODHYAKANDA
 
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of being done though it looks worthy,

and is not beneficial to me though it

looks full of benefit.
 

 
सत्यमेवानृशंसं च राजवृत्तं सनातनम् ।
 

तस्मात् सत्यात्मकं राज्यं सत्ये लोकः प्रतिष्ठितः ॥
 

The principle of a king, of the nature

of Pity, has through eternity been Truth.

Therefore it is that sovereignty is Truth

itself; and the world too is founded on

Truth.
 

 
सोऽहं पितुर्नियोगं तु किमर्थं नानुपालये।

सत्यप्रतिश्रवस्सत्यं सत्येन समयीकृतः ॥
 

Why then shall I, knowing these

things, not fulfil my father's command ?

He was truthful and righteous. For truth's

sake, I have been enjoined to fulfil the

truth.
 

 
क्रुद्धमाज्ञाय रामं तु वसिष्ठः प्रत्युवाच ह ॥
 

Knowing Rama to have been enraged,

Vasishtha replied him thus:
 

 
जाबालिरपि जानीते लोकस्यास्य गतागतिम् ।

निवर्तयितुकामस्तु त्वामेतद्वाक्यमुक्तवान् ॥
 

"Jabali also knows where beings go to

from this world and how they return