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YUDDHAKANDA
 

 
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."
 
इत्येव विलपन्तं तं शोक विलितेन्द्रियम् ।
राममाश्वासयन् वीरः सुषेणो वाक्यमत्रवीत् ॥
 
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Appeasing Rama who was lamenting
thus, with his senses agitated through
 
sorrow, the heroic Sushena said these words:
 
न मृतोऽयं महाबाहो लक्ष्मणो लक्ष्मिवर्धनः ।
मा विषाई कृथा वीर सप्राणोऽयमरिन्दमः ॥
 
"O mighty-armed one, this Lakshmana,
the increaser of prosperity, is not indeed
dead. O hero, do not give way to griet ;
this vanquisher of foes (Lakshmana ) is
 
alive."
 
एवमुक्ता तु वाक्यज्ञः सुषेजो राघवं वचः ।
हनुमन्तमुवाचेदं हनुमन्तमभित्वरन् ॥
 
Saying these words to Raghava, Sushena,
the expert in speech, spoke these words to
Hanuman, hurrying Hanuman: