ayOdhyA kAnDam – dharma canto

• 2.1. Incomparable rAma of innumerable virtues
• 2.2. rAma reigns in the hearts of people!
• 2.3. The coronation beckons
• 2.4. How do the parents feel about the crowning?
• 2.5. ayOdhyA in anticipation
• 2.6. ayOdhya all set!
• 2.7. Crooked maid seeds poison
• 2.8. Hunchback’s slanderous onslaught
• 2.9. Malefic maid and the gullible mistress
• 2.10. Scheming queen and the unsuspecting emperor
• 2.11. The queer pitch of the queen
• 2.12. daSaratha blows hot and cold
• 2.13. No joy for daSaratha!
• 2.14. ayOdhyA unaware
• 2.15. The unsuspecting messenger
• 2.16. rAma rules the hearts
• 2.17. Delighted by the fleeting glimpse of rAma!
• 2.18. Cruel kaikEyi, devastated daSaratha and resolute rAma
• 2.19. Dignity, thy name is rAma!
• 2.20. Mother’s mortifying moment!
• 2.21. lakshmaNa’s wrath meets rAma’s calm
• 2.22. Destiny, all powerful!
• 2.23. livid lakshmaNa, stoic rAma!
• 2.24. dharma trumps even mother’s love
• 2.25. The mother of all blessings!
• 2.26. sItA’s questions, rAma’s advise
• 2.27. sItA wants to go as well
• 2.28. What makes forests dreadful
• 2.29. sItA insists…
• 2.30. sItA is inseparable from rAma
• 2.31. lakshmaNa too gets the nod
• 2.32. rAma gives away all his wealth
• 2.33. Citizens think their course
• 2.34. daSaratha devastated
• 2.35. sumantra lashes out
• 2.36. Sagacious siddhArta speaks up
• 2.37. rAma dons the bark
• 2.38. rAma has a wish!
• 2.39. rAma says, so long!
• 2.40. ayOdhyA in a storm of tears!
• 2.41. ayOdhyA in agony
• 2.42. Lord of the land laments
• 2.43. The mother’s heart
• 2.44. Bravo, sumitrA!
• 2.45. Endearing rAma, enchanting followers
• 2.46. Citizens let down by sleep!
• 2.47. Nowhere to go, they returned home
• 2.48. A valuable lesson in desperate devotion
• 2.49. Away they speed away
• 2.50. Stopping by a dear friend
• 2.51. guha feels lakshmaNa’s pain
• 2.52. Loyal servant, meticulous master
• 2.53. lakshmaNa says NO!
• 2.54. The hospitable sage
• 2.55. Entering the forests
• 2.56. At home in the lap of nature
• 2.57. Empty chariot brings sorrow
• 2.58. A sobering note through sumantra
• 2.59. The ocean of grief
• 2.60. In search of silver lining
• 2.61. She becomes the bitter half!
• 2.62. kausalyA consoles…
• 2.63. Terrible trip down the memory lane
• 2.64. The dreadful past act catches up
• 2.65. The dreadful morning dawns
• 2.66. ayOdhyA mourns
• 2.67. Longing for the leader
• 2.68. Emissaries on a mission
• 2.69. Bad omens besiege bharata
• 2.70. bharata homebound
• 2.71. bharata beholds an unusual ayOdhyA
• 2.72. Devastating twin blows
• 2.73. The wrath of the righteous
• 2.74. The bharata of perfect priorities!
• 2.75. bharata solemnly swears his innocence
• 2.76. daSaratha merges with the elements
• 2.77. The brothers lament
• 2.78. Satrughna is livid as well
• 2.79. Purity of heart and clarity of thought
• 2.80. Laying the royal road to rAma!
• 2.81. bharata can’t be distracted
• 2.82. ayOdhyA sets out to the forests
• 2.83. ayOdhyA moves in eager anticipation
• 2.84. guha is vigilant about rAma
• 2.85. guha questions and consoles
• 2.86. guha recalls lakshmaNa’s laments
• 2.87. guha continues narration
• 2.88. bharata pines painfully for rAma
• 2.89. Across the gorgeous gangA
• 2.90. bharata meets the benevolent bharadwAja
• 2.91. Seven star banquet for bharata’s army
• 2.92. A prophecy made…
• 2.93. Inching nearer to rAma!
• 2.94. The Delightful delights at chitrakUTa
• 2.95. rAma doesn’t miss ayOdhyA!
• 2.96. lakshmaNa rages, again!
• 2.97.Brotherhood exemplary!
• 2.98. Pedestrian prince spots the holy hermitage
• 2.99. bhakti, thy name is bharata!
• 2.100. The tenets of rAma rAjya
• 2.101. Can rAma be coaxed?
• 2.102. Consumed in the thoughts of rAma…
• 2.103. The chitrakUTa turns ayOdhyA!
• 2.104. Peek into mothers’ heart
• 2.105. bharata submits, rAma responds
• 2.106. ayOdhyA echoes bharata, rAma is resolute
• 2.107. bharata relentless, rAma unrelenting
• 2.108. What you see is what you get, says sage jAbAli
• 2.109. jAbAli incurs rAma’s righteous wrath
• 2.110. Sage vasisTha invokes history and tradition
• 2.111. I shall rule upon my return
• 2.112. Unflinchingly dhArmic
• 2.113. bharata returns, but not empty handed
• 2.114. ayOdhyA sans rAma is like…
• 2.115. bharata, the trustee
• 2.116. Sages trigger the mission!
• 2.117. Chastity acclaims chastity
• 2.118. Of grace and a trip down the memory lane
• 2.119. So long says rAma

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