Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c22.101

c22.101

It is fabled that Rāma, after exterminating the kṣatriyas, sacrificed at Rāma-tīrtha with Kaśyapa as his upādhyāya and gave him the earth (or a golden altar) as his fee: whereupon Kaśyapa banished him to the southern ocean, and the ocean made the Śūrpāraka country (near Bombay) for Rāma, and Rāma dwelt there.³ Other stories say Rāma retired then to Mt. Mahendra,⁴ which is generally identified with the Mahendra range in Orissa: and he is fabled to have lived on there till long ages later.⁵ He is also fictitiously introduced into tales about later princes (e. g. pp. 67, 72).