Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.616

Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c8.616

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c8.616

Sītā was enamoured of the deer and expressed to Rāma her desire to get it. Rāma followed it and finding it keeping a distance always got suspicious and shot it down with an arrow. The deer cried “Hā Lakṣmaṇa” and fell down dead. The cry was intended to mislead Lakṣmaṇa and draw him also away from Sītā. (Chapters 43-44, Araṇya Kāṇḍa, Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa).

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Vālmīkirāmāyaṇa — Vālmīki, Sanskrit