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AYODHYAKANDA
 

 
best of kings, you too
 
should
 
make our father true to his word, by
installing yourself quickly.
 
ऋणान्मांचय राजानं मत्कृते भरत प्रभुम् ।
पितरं चापि धर्मज्ञं मातरं चाभिनन्दय ।
 
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O Bharata, for my sake help the release
our revered father, the king and
 
of
 
obligation ; and
 
kuower of dharma, from his
 
please your mother.
 
अयोध्यां गच्छ भरत प्रकृतीरनुरञ्जय ।
प्रवेक्ष्ये दण्डकारण्यम् अहमप्यविलम्बयन् ॥
 
O Bharata, proceed to Ayodhya and
make the subjects well pleased. Without
further delay I too shall enter the Dandaka
forest.
 
आश्वासयन्तं भरतं जाबालिर्ब्राह्मणोत्तमः ।
उवाच रामं धर्मशं धर्मापेतमिदं वचः ॥
 
To Rama, the knower of dharma, who
was thus pacifying Bharata, Jabali the
foremost of Brahmins said these words,
divorced from righteousness :