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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 शोकविह्लितेन्द्रियम् ।

राममाश्वासयन् वीरः सुषेणो वाक्यमब्रवीत् ॥
 

Appeasing Rama who was lamenting
thus, with his senses agitated through

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 :