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In country after country one can get
wives and relations also. But I am not
aware of that place where a true-born
brother could be got.
 
YUDDHAKANDA
 
इत्येवं विलपन्तं तं शोकविह्नलितेन्द्रियम् ।
राममाश्वासयन् वीरः सुषेणो वाक्यमब्रवीत् ॥
 
Appeasing Rama who was lamenting
thus, with his senses agitated through
sorrow, the heroic Sushena said these
words :
 
न मृतोऽयं महाबाहो लक्ष्मणो लक्ष्मिवर्धनः ।
मा विषादं कृथा वीर सप्राणोऽयमरिन्दमः ॥
 
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" Omighty-armed one, this Lakshmana,
the increaser of prosperity, is not indeed
dead. O hero, do not give way to grief ;
this vanquisher of foes (Lakshmana) is
alive."
 
एवमुक्त्वा तु वाक्यज्ञः सुषेणो राघवं वचः ।
हनुमन्तमुवाचेदं हनुमन्तमभित्वरन् ॥
 
Saying these words to Raghava,
Sushena, the expert in speech, spoke these
words to Hanuman, hurrying Hanuman :