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With these words, Kakutstha himself sprinkled Bharata as king with water brought by Sită, with all the vassals as witnesses. After bowing and speaking to Kaikeyi and also Bharata, Rāma dismissed them and set out to the south. Bharata went to Ayodhya and, his commands unbroken, assumed the weight of the kingdom at his father's and brother's command. Dasaratha and a large retinue took initiation under Muni Satyabhūti. Bharata, wounded in the heart by his brother's dwelling in the forest, guarded the realm like a watchman, zealous in worship of the Arhat, wise.
Rāma, accompanied by Saumitri and the daughter of Maithila (Sītā), crossed the mountain Citrakuta on the road as he went and in a few days reached a place in the country Avanti, resembling a god placed on earth.
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