Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 4

Author(s): Hemchandracharya, Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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CHAPTER TEN voice. Bibhişaņa, Sugrīva, Satrughna and the others, shedding tears, cried at the top of their voices, “ We are killed.” Kausalya and the other mothers and their daughters-in-law, weeping, swooned again and again, crying pathetically. Then from the wailing at every street, every house, every market, pure grief resulted, the thief of all other sentiments.
Initiation of Lavana and Ankuća (135–138)
The princes Lavana and Ankuśa bowed to Rāma and said: "Today we have become very terrified of existence because of the death of our younger father. Death falls upon every creature suddenly. Therefore men must be intent upon the next world from the very beginning. Give your consent to our initiation. Henceforth it is not fitting for us to remain at all in the house of those left by our younger father.” They bowed to Răma and both took initiation under Muni Amstaghosa and in course of time reached emancipation.
Rāma's grief (139–174) Because of his brother's death and the separation from his sons, Rāma swooned again and again and said from delusion: "Some disrespect was shown today by me, brother, that you suddenly adopted such a silence. While you are in this condition, brother, I have been abandoned by my sons. Verily, hundreds of evil spirits enter men's hundred weak points.” Bibhīşaņa and the others together went finally to Rāma talking in this unbalanced way and said with sobs: “You are the resolute among the resolute, like a hero among heroes, lord. Therefore put aside this shameful weakness. Now it is said by the people that Saumitri's funeral ceremonies together with the perfuming and anointing of the body must be held at a suitable time.”