Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.256
Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c5.256
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11) Death. Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa with Sītā went to live in the forest. Sumantra who accompanied them up to the river Ganges, returned to the palace. By then Daśaratha had fallen down filled with grief. He had never recovered from that state of unconsciousness. At the time of his death Bharata and Śatrughna had been away in the kingdom of Kekaya and Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa in the forest. Thus the curse he incurred in his younger days from the aged hermit, the father of Śravaṇa, was fully realized.