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the Suryahas. He held its handle; seized it and to test its sharpness, he began cutting off the bamboo trees. Shambuk was in that bamboo grove. So, the sword fell upon him also and at once his severed head fell on the ground.
Lakshman was amazed. He never knew that there was a person in the bamboo grove and that he would cut off his head like that. When he slowly entered the bamboo grove, he found Shambuk's body hanging down from a tree. He was greatly sad to see this. He began to think, "O! I have killed an unarmed and an innocent human being." He went straight to Shri Ram carrying the Suryahas and narrated to him how unknowingly, he had killed a man.
"Dear brother! This is a divine sword called Suryanas. Someone performing Tapas to attain it was killed by you. It is possible that in future some other person may endeavour to attain it."
"Revered brother! What will happen now ?” Lakshman said in anguish.
Sita kept staring at the radiant sword with astonishment.
Shambuk's mother was counting every day, to see when the period would end. Thinking that her son would attain the Suryahas in a day or two Chandranakha began making preparations for a celebration. She took a vessel containing holy water. She put on clean and holy dress and went to Dandakaranya. She knew very well the place where her son was carrying out the tapas. During the past twelve years, she went there many times and did whatever was necessary for her son.
Chandranakha was in high spirits because after a long period of Tapas, her son was going to attain an infallible weapon. She could not contain her joy, but the poor woman did not know what lay concealed in the womb of time; that within a short time a thunderbolt of anguish would strike her; and that her son had been killed by Lakshman. This is one general feature of the
The jiva goes on entertaining aspirations and building castles in the air but on account of cruel Karmas those aspira
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