Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.2836
Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c9.2836
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3) Before Lakṣmaṇa. Śūrpaṇakhā's son, Śambhukumāra was performing tapas to Śiva in Daṇḍakāraṇya. It was at this time that Śrī Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa arrived in the forest, accompanied by Sītā. They reached the place called Pañcavaṭī in Daṇḍakāraṇya. Śrī Rāma wished to set up his hermitage in the middle of the five "vaṭa" trees in Pañcavaṭī.