Ayodhya Kaanda
87 - Dialogue between the sage Vasistha and Bharata; Bharata prepares for a journey to Citrakuta in order to bring Sri Rama back to Ayodhya
Chaupais
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The king was blessed in everyway; it is no use mourning for him. Hearing and realizing this, sorrow no more, and reverently obey the king's command. The king has bestowed the kingship on you; it behoves you, therefore, to redeem the words of your father who abandoned Rama for the sake of his word and quitted his body in his anguish of separation from Rama. The king did not love his own life as he did his word; therefore, dear son, redeem your father's word. Reverently obey the king's command; this will do you good in everyway. Parasurama executed the command of his father and killed his own mother: the whole world will bear testimony to this fact. Yayati's son (Puru)* exchanged his own youth for the old age of his father and incurred no sin or blame because he did so in obedience to his father's command."