Ayodhya Kaanda
67 - Dialogue between Sri Rama and mother Kausalya
Chaupais
Description
For residing in the forest God has created Kola* and Kirata* girls, who are foreign to sensuous pleasures. Adamantine by nature like the insect living on stone, they never experience any hardship in the woods. Another class fit for the forest is the hermit woman, who has renounced all pleasures for the sake of penance. But how, my son, will Sita live in the forest;-she who is frightened to see even the picture of a monkey? Is a female cygnet, who disports in the lovely lotus-beds of the Manasa lake, fit for a muddy puddle? First ponder this; then as you order I will instruct Janaka's daughter. "If she stays at home," the mother continued, "that will mean a great solace to me." When Sri Rama (the Hero of Raghu's race) heard this endearing speech of His mother, imbued as it were with the nectar of grace and affection-