Lanka Kaanda
197 - Sri Rama and Sita leave for Ayodhya on the aerial car, Puspaka
Chaupais
Description
Forthwith the aerial car reached the most charming Dandaka forest, the abode of many a great sage like Kumbhaja (the jar-born Agastya) and others: Sri Rama visited the hermitages of all. After receiving the blessings of all these sages the Lord of the universe arrived at Citrakμuta; and, having gratified the sages there, the aerial car departed thence with all speed. Sri Rama next pointed out to Janaka's Daughter the beautiful Yamuna, that washes away the impurities of the Kali age. Thereafter they espied the holy Ganga (the celestial stream) and Sri Rama said, "Sita, make obeisance. Now have a look at Prayaga, the king of all sacred places, whose very sight drives away sins committed through a myriad lives. Again look at the most holy Triveni (the confluence of the Ganga, Yamuna and the subterranean Sarasvati), the dispeller of grief and a ladder to Sri Hari's Abode. Now see the most sacred city of Ayodhya, that relieves the threefold agony and uproots the malady of transmigration."