Rajput Painting, Being an Account of the Hindu Paintings of Rajasthan and the Panjab Himalayas from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century v2.c19.485

v2.c19.485

‘Having composed the whole *Rāmāyaṇa*, Vālmīki pondered who should publish it in the assemblies of men. Just then there entered Kusi and Lava, in the guise of hermits’ sons, and touched his feet. He found the princes to be virtuous, and sweet of voice, apt at understanding the significance of poetry, and of good memory, already initiated into Vedic studies; and he explained to them the meaning of the Vedas, and taught them the Rāmāyaṇa in full; and they with concentred hearts, chanted the song as they had learnt it, in the assemblies of ascetics and Brāhmans and good men; and the hermit cried, “Well done, Well done!”’