My parents are waiting at some distance for me. Boy asked Dasharath to extract the arrow from his body and said: He discovered the fatal blunder and tendered his heart felt apologies to the hermit boy who had come there for fetching water for his old parents. Arrow hit the boy that went deep into the body and after hearing his cry he reached that place. He mistook the gurgling sound for trumpeting of an elephant released a sharp arrow in the direction where a hermit-boy was filling his pitcher with water by submerging it into Sarayu River. One day he went out for hunting in the forest along Sarayu River expecting wild animals coming there for drinking water in the night. “When he was Prince Regent of Ayodhya, famous for who can shot heard (but unseen) at the sound of the movement of the object by an arrow. Shravan In Ayodhya KandamĪfter Ram’s departure, King Dasharath narrated to Kausalya his earlier sin committed by him in his young age. Dashrath attempted in vain, to try to talk Sita out of joining Ram in the forest. Ram, Sita and Lakshman greet their mothers before finally going to Dashrath to take leave of him. Sita replied, “The forest where you dwell is Ayodhya for me and Ayodhya without you is a veritable hell for me.” When Ram ordered her in his capacity as husband, Sita rejected it, asserting that it was an essential duty of a wife to be at her husband’s side come good or ill. Ram tried to convince Sita not to join him in a dangerous and certainly arduous existence in the jungle. Ram accepted his father’s reluctant decree with absolute submission and his step mother’s request and decided to leave the kingdom as it served all purposes of his incarnation. Queen Kaikeyi spoke to Ram and explained the boons that she had asked of His father. Ram Accepted His Exile In The Forest For 14 Yrs The kings court assistant Sumantra sent Ram to His father. “ Ram had to take refuge in the forest for fourteen years “. “All arrangements had been made for Ram’s coronation, instead let my son Bharat be crowned as Prince Regent on this occasion itself”. The heartbroken king, constrained by his rigid devotion to his given word, Kaikeyi asked these boons from King Dasharath who acceded to Kaikeyi’s demands. She reminded him of the two boons long ago he promised her and claimed two boons (This happened when King Dasharath was wounded in his chariot on the battlefield once, and Kaikeyi saved his life by taking over the reins and driving the chariot to safety.) Queen Kaikeyi spoke to King Dasharath which surprised the king. King Dasharath was greatly alarmed and concerned that Kaikeyi was in the sulking chamber as the entire population of Ayodhya was greatly happy and eagerly anticipating the coronation of Ram. Kaikeyi entered the sulking chamber in the royal palace and awaited for King Dasharath. Manthara reminded Queen Kaikeyi of the two boons that the King had promised her. Kaikeyi was initially pleased, Manthara convinced her that if Ram came to power, he would exile or kill Bharat in order to eliminate a possible threat to his power Slowly Queen Kaikeyi’s mind was poisoned. When she heard that King Dasharath was planning to make his eldest son, Ram prince regent, she fled into a rage and reported the news to Kaikeyi. Manthara, a family servant of Kaikeyi, she lived with her from the time of her birth. Manthara’s mind became twisted and began to talk to Queen Kaikeyi in harsh terms. Saraswati decided to alter the mind state of one of Queen Kaikeyi’s maid servant named Manthara, doing what was necessary to ensure that Ram would come into conflict with Ravan. Queen Kaikeyi’s Two Wishes From King Dasharath They approached Goddess Saraswati for help. The demigods and mother earth became very concerned that Ram was becoming very settled in Ayodhya and something had to happen if Ram was to conquer the Ravan. He decided that the next day he would begin the ceremony for the installation of Ram as Prince regent.
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King Dasharath who had grown old expressed his desire to install Ram, his eldest child the Yuvaraja (Prince regent) to which the Kosala assembly and his subjects expressed their support.