AY EVEL ieHOSA WAS A PROSPECOWS KINGDOM ta ANCIENT INDIA RULED BY INE DASHARATHA || oF as PASHARATNA NAD. THREE QUEENS, BUT MONE OF INEM HAD BORNE Witt A SOK SO THE RING DECIDED FO PERFORM A YAG =s AH ED ON THE BANK OF THE SARAYE! AND 47S CAPITAL WAS AYODNTYA. FRO THE BLAZING AIRE THERE oes EMERGED A DIVINE FORM, a TAKE THIS PAYASA® PREPARLD BY THE GODS ANP LET YOUR WIVES PARTARE OF IT. THEN THEY WILL BEAR SOM:THE KING TOOK THE PRECIOUS GIFT FIRST FO KAUGALTA, WG ELOSST GVEEN, KALISALYA, PLEASE HAVE HOLF OF THIS.YOU WILL AND KAIKES!, IN DUE COURSE, FOR (9 SOV HAS NAMED mana AV ware ve : WTS SOV WAS AAMED SHaeATa. SUMITRA HAD THINS , LAKSHMANA AND SHATRUGHIA.DU ONE GRY,AS DASHARATHA: SAT AT COURT HTH WIS YOUR MAJESTY! PMMSTERS, A ROWAL GUARD ENTERED THE WALL. SAGE VISHAMMITRA so THE MUG HURRIED OUT TO RECEIVE THE ATER THE SAGE HAP CORE IN ANP Act | SAGE 4 SEAT, THE KING ADDRESSED Hitt — ey HOLY ONE! TELL ME THE PURPOSE OF YOUR VISIT. 1S THERE ANYTHING. YOU DESIRE Pi'LL CARRY OUT YOUR ORDERS WITHOUT QUESTION. WA s OUR VALIANT SON, RAMA, WITH ME To PESTROY THEM. THE RAKSHASAS® OBSTRUCT MY FIRE SACRIFICES AS EACH SACRIFICE NEARS COMPLETION, THEY. DEFILE THE ALTAR.TAKE MW ARMY. IF YOU _/ WISH, "LL COME MYSELF TO FIGHT THE RAKSHASAS, BUT SPARE MY PARLING |/2 KING, YOU HAVE GONE BACK ON YOUR WORD. THIS ILL BEFITS THE NOBLE é TRADITION OF YOUR FAMILY. | RAMA I NOT SIXTBEM. HE EAPERIENCE YET HAS NO OF WAR. HOw CAN HE FigHT THE MIGHTY RAKSHASAS ? & ¥ tes TT HAG To BE RAMA —AND: NO ONE BLSE., )coe eck : a i i THEN VASISHTHA, THE ROYAL |—. (PTOR, INTERVENED. ee ECE «INTE ; = NO ONE LEAVES KING CRBHARATHA'S | \ if COURT PISSATISFIER.! A i ) IT 1S FoR RAMA'S OWN GOOD — To TRAIN HIM IN WARFARE — THAT VISMWAMITRA Has CHOSEN TO TAKE HIM. O KING, BE TRUE TO. YOUR WORD AND LET RAMA 60. TO Tme Kala. | YOUR SON WILL COME TONE er NO HARM IN. THE Fe ——\ prorection oF vishamiren ty | WhO 1S QUITE CAPABLE ff OF DESTROYING ‘THE RAXSHASAS HIMSELF. DASHARATHA ACCEPTED THE ADVICE AND SENT [I FOR RAMA AND LAKSHMANA. KSHIMAMA. TAL DREN, GO wiTH SAGE VISHWAMITRA AND CARRY OUT HISTHE TREE LEFT AYODHYA, CROSSED THE CONFLUENCE OF THE SARATE Ani ‘fie GANGA, AND PROCEROED cuerwen, : = SS I{L-a Rama, once THiS SRE PLACE WAS ALIVE WITH | PEOPLE .THE WICKED j) RAKSHASI®™ TATAKA, NAD |) DEVASTATED IT. SAVE THIS LAND BY \ PESTROVING HER. 45 KAMA LIFTER Hi5 BOW, THE SOUND | AUNMINE TORMEDS MIM, SHE THREN A SwOwER OF TECHOED TROUGH THe |AOCKS WIM RAMA NRRL WuTH Base - ra quan f SS oO = ' i il/ mo A TReaieue MLL DEMOUR HIM. © i SHE MARE NERSELF INSIBLE AND CONTINUED Tie SOWIE HEAVY ADCS OW TEM.BUT TATAKA CONTINUED! pee Gs = Soe ‘O.GREAT SAS, BEGIN YOUR SACRIFICE WITHOUT PELAY AND AY Success ATTEND UPON You! =LOOK, LAKSHMANA! THE RAKSHAGAS! CA's HERGK FOUND ITS ANE THE RARSHASA , MARICHA, WAS WT WITH SUCH FORCE... wusT AS THE WIND SCATTERS Ty ahs. fe 5 THE CLOUDS 6O li ees THAT WE MMS FLUNe INTO THE SEA, A HONPREE MILES AleiAy « E rs | LONLY DID Mw WANBHED BY RAMA AVE LAKSHMANA, * i “\\euTY, HOLY ONE. MEANWHILE THE FIRE SACRIFICE Was We COMPLETED Successruily, [— iy as ACCOMPLISHED MV é [im BECAUSE YOu a CARRIEP OUT MY WISHES. , O RAMA, YOU'VE MADE My , SIPDHA-. rs name i OF a | NAME.THEN THE SAGES WO HAD ‘50 BAA AND LAXSAMANA SET OFF WITH DISH WMMTEA ATTENDED WSHMAMITEA'S: AND THE OTHER SAGES OM THE way Tw Sacks Tano SACRIFICE SPOKE TO RAMA. RAMA ABGUT Ben's FAMGES Bow weitere WS NOH PRINCE ,WE ARE GOING TO mITIWLA \| | THE AOSSessioN OF uANARA TO ATTEND THE VAGWA To BE PERFORMED BY RING JAMAKA. Wty BON'T 4OU COME WITH US® IF KING JANAKA GIVES His ARRIVE ar MITHILA? 0 KING, THE MANY KINGS, O SAGE, HAVE PRINCES FRE TRIED IN VAIN TO STRING EAGER To SEE THE GREAT BOW OF SHIVA. \f ais POCIAL Gee }\. THE GREAT IF RAMA SUCCEEPS IN [STH Wis JANAKA'S ADOPTED A ORUGNTER. WHILE PLOUGH ING | ral i Sn a tsSOOM, AT JANAAAS COMMAND, AVE MUNDRED STRONG MEN BRDUGHT FROM THE CITY Tete EranT— O: SAGE , MERE 18 THR GREAT BOW oF SrVA. WHEELED BON iN WMA THE GREAT Bow WHS KEPT, THE PRINCES MAY. i EXAMINE {T.)) iv ah, LAM INPEED FORTUNATE TO / HAVE WITNESSED SucH A FEAT. WHEN ME HAD RECOVERED FROM THE SHOCK, MY DAUGHTER SHALL HAVE RAMA AS HER LORD, AND ENHANCE THE 7 wees GLORY OF MY DYNASTY. WITH osu | | YOUR PERMISSION | WILL CONVEY 4 THE GLAD HEWS TO KiNG eens Teeveo To were. PASHARATHA. " IN BEE COURSE, DRSHARATHA ARRIVED IN MITHILA O RAMA, FROM THIS MOMENT, Te ATTENS MARRIAGE CEREMONY. MY DAUGHTER, THE ViRTUOUS == — - 4 SITA, WILL BE YOUR. CGNPANION| SHE WILL-FOLLOW YOU LIKE A SHADOW. MAY YOU BOTH BE HAPPY!LAKSMMANA MARRIED SITAS [0 = AFTER THE CEREMONY, VSNWAMITRA SISTER, uRwiLA. anagaTa fp) S| |HESSED THE FRINCES AND THEN HARRIES MANDATE AND Ps BRIPES ... RUSHADHWAGA. FLOWERS RAINED DOWN KRGM HEAVEN AS THEY: FOR THE HIMALAYAS TO MEDVTATE | PASHARATHA SET OUT FOR AS CAPITAL wren mes” sa ASHURAMA, A SWORN ENEMY OF THE WARRIOR C1435, BARRED THE WAY, a‘ = wo RAMA, HAVING HEARD fa | ABOUT YOUR HEROIC PE NEN TS. VE COME oe. OMBAT WITH | Pe PASHARATA TREMBLED Ait Gver. | |aWGRING GISHARATHAS Pleas, AARABRIRAMA CNOA TTT TOLER: si ii barat : A O MOLY ONE! SPARE tb Se Se eee MY SON WHO 1 BUT HERE, TAKE THIS GREAT Bow OF A CHILD, | IMPLORE = ’ WSHNU. IF YOU SUCCEED IN DRAWING you! P a af NS BOW, I'LL CONSIPER YOUFARSHURAMA RETURNED TO WIS ABOSE IN MG@UNT MANENDRA AND DASHARATHA RESUMED iB hermene O,RAMA.L AM Now S| [METH ANS FARTY. ~-——— CONVINCED THAT YOu ARE MONE OTHER) OLD. RAMA IS LOVER BY ALL. AFFECTIONATE j IT 15 TUE. AND COMSIDERATE es i ‘ —_ \ To NAME 5 ian HIM MAY SUCCESSOR,THE TRADITIONS OF MY BEST AMONG MEN, ANCESTORS. NOW | HAV! AS YUVARAJA® GROWN OLD AND- J HAVE RULED THIS GREAT ‘I To INSTALL MY i KINGDOM IM ACCORDANCE WITH ELDEST SON, RAMA, / YES 11M FORBEARANCE RAMA IS LIKE THE Gl EARTH; IN WisPom LIKE BRIMASPATI ; IM SVALOUR LIKE INDRA} #4 SON, ACCEPT THE HIGH GFFICE OF YUVARAUJA. RULE YOUR SUBJECTS WITH BUE REGARD FOR THEIR HAPPINESS, Toe > THANK YOU, \ | FATHER, &HAIKEY!, BASHARATHA'S THIRD WIE WERED THE NEWS FROM MANTHARA, HER atte. y I] i 1] UOYOUS OCCASION | i i = J] BAMA WILL BE FING i AND BHARATA — NoTHING | 2 | MY RAMA IS TO [ f > BE CROWNED | | AM 60 HAPPY! HERE TAKE MY NECKLACE AS A REWARD FOR BRINGING THE GOOD WEws! O FOOLISH QUEEN, cAN'T 4OU SEE Wty THEY HAVE BECIPED To CROWN RAMA IM BHARATA'S, ABSENCE & BUT, MANTHARA, Yo RAMA 1S AS | DEAR TO ME AS BHARATA. WHEN RAMA BECOMES KING, HE WiLL THARA CONTINUED RELENTLESSLY: e ‘| ETHER DANISH SNARATA Ok FUT HIM TO DEATH! " afa cierseieer een FOR YOUR SONS SAKE— ANP YOUR OWN — you MUST THINK OF A WAY TO VERMA GET Riv OF RAMA, S YoU ARE RIGHT... t | | [ PERSUADE THE YES! COULD Use THEM RING TO PLACE WILL THE KING e ( BHARATA ON THE | LISTEN To MEP THRONE. INSTEAD! THE NEXT MORMING, THE NOBLES ASSEMBLED IN COURT TO WINESS THE INVESTITURE OF RAMA AS PREPARATIONS FOR (1 HOPE THERE fs THE CEREMONY NOTHING WRONG. ARE NOW COMPLETE. BUT WHERE is THE KiNG &SORRY | CAN'T EXPLAIN HONOURABLE } SUMANTRA , WE SAVE BEEN WAITING oo FOR JHE KING. = my WAY To WHY THE DELAY 2 S RAMA'S / Prince, THE KING WISHES TO SEE YOU. HE 1S IN THE APARTMENTS OF OUgEW KAIKEY!. 1 WiLL fa | GO RIGHT SITA, MOTHER KAIKEYI if KIND AND COMSIDERATE, SHE IS PROBABLY DISCUSSING THE DETAIL ‘OF THE CEREMONY WITH MY FATHER.| MUST HASTEN TO MEET THEM. RAHA DROVE GUT TO AAS PALACE, Aas Mi STREETS OF AORN YA Wich WERE c HY GECORATES TO CELEBRATE AVS CORONATION. THE PEOPLE CHEERED HM Lestity AS ae PROVE ar. NOW. 1AM ON BEMY FATHER SEEMS TO OL IN GREAT DrSTRESS. WHY 18 HE NOT HAPPY TG S2E MEE wiry iS KE FROWNING F HE TURNED TO KAIKEY! — ~ ‘ RAMA, LONG AGO YOUR FATHER HAP PROMISED ME TWO BONS» / were | OeFeNcND. Wet rari? ME 1 SILENT Ano REGENTFUL ’ BECAUSE THE FULFILMENT OF © MOTHER, AND ASK HIM To THOSE FORGIVE ME. BONS WILL CAUSE YOU UMPLEASANTNESS. 0 RAMA, IF YOU ONLY KNEW RAIKEW'S TRUE NATURE! | AM PREPARED To THROW MYSELF INTO FIRE IF MY FATHER DESIRES IT. PLEASE LET ME KNOW THE BOOMS AND | PROMISE TO ULFIL Tht.RAMA, LOWE AGO | HAD ACCOMPANIED THE KING WHEN HE SET OUT TO FIGHT THE ASURAS. “UN THE COURSE OF THE BATTLE AN ARROW IT Pine AND HE WOUNDED. SENSING THE DANGEE TOMS LIE, | ROUT THe CHARIOT TNROUGH THE BESEGING ARMY OF THE ASURAS... FELL 1 ANE BROUGHT Wit BACK SAPELY TO THE CAPITAL KAIKEY! CONCLUDED HER STORY — THE: zi ; = B = LORP, 1 SHALL ANG THE NEED HAS : RAKE, | OWE Mie 2 CLAIM THEM WHEN] | ARISEN HOw. IF ‘You UFE TO You. ASK | ANP YOUR FATHER 7 “ ‘ WOULD UPHOLD THE = TRUTH THEM You WILL LISTEN TO ME. Ja| WANT BHARATA TO BE (MAGE THE YUVARAJA AND YOU, RAMA, BRILED To THE FOREST FOR TO FULFIL THE = BUT WHY DOESN'T sey PROMISE MADE BY THE FATHER TALK TO me RING Ma FATHER , s qty, AFFECTIONATELY © | FEEL | SHALL LEAVE FoR 7 PISTRESSEP 70 s THE FOREST a emuepaiee IMMEDIATELY, IT 18 BECAUSE HE CANNOT BRING HIMSELE TO ASK You [OW HEARING THE WORDS GF RAMEY), DASHIRATHA ie [eT ue — 70 GO TO THE FOREST, BUT HE WILL MEITHER BATHE HOR PARTAKE OF FOOD UNTILOVERCOME SY SORROW, HE FELL POW ig eew SCS. 3 MOTHER, YOU COULD HAVE ASKED & en!) ME 70 GO TO THE FOREST ©, FATHER! WITHOUT CLAIMING THE PROMISED BOON AND CAUSING DISTRESS TO | | MY FATHER. | WOULD HAVE GLAPLY e BEYER You. <= hy MAY THESE BE DEDICATED TO THE CORONATION OF BHARATA | MAY THE GODS PROTECT Him! BY THEN THE NOBLES WHO HAD ASSEMBLED IN THE PALACE HALL TO WITNESS THE CORONATION HAD LEARNT OF KAMEY!'S, DEMAND AND kAMA'S PECION. . = lh TO BE SORRY TO GIVE j is | " ys UP THE THRONE | i t a = 2 es ‘|BEAR THIS 7 TO HAVE A SON ANE THEN To BE SEPARATED FROM HIM IS WORSE THAN HAVING MO CHILD AT WHEN LAKSHMAN SAW AASALIA WN TEARS, ME WAS CER COME WITH G@iér. E= R FATHER WAS LOST HIS SENSE IM MIS OLE AGE Of-HE WOULD NOT HAVE DEPRIVED SINLESS RAMA OF THE KINGPaM AND GALE HIM | THE KING CANNOT CONFER THE KING= POM ON BHARATA IGNORING Your FIGHTS AS HIS 5 ELDEST Son, YOURSELF, iF AW ONE PARES. OPPOSE you, 1 WiLL DEAL, WITH HIM. LAKSHMANA, IN SUCH Cecanerm sey a AMAN SHOULD STRIVE TO UPHOLD ft er HIS GHARMA™, GIVE UP THIS RELIANCE ON WIOLENCE .1 WHL BE ACTING AGAINST MY DHARMA IF | PREVENT iF YOU CANNOT CHANGES.) YOUR MIND, LET mE, Tod, 40 WITH You INTO EXILE . FiMOTHER , THE KING IS ALREADY DEEPLY KAUSALTA REALISED THAT JF WAS FUTHE ou TO TRY AWG STOP HIM, SHE GAVE Mee BLESSING AND THREW RICE OVER HIS HEAD,MY LORD, IN YGUR COMPANY jee THE FOREST WILL BE LIKE ‘i 4 HEAVEN AND WITHOUT You EVEN & THE PALACE WILL BE HELL. TAKE pp ME WITH YOU ! DON'T ABANDON,/ tq) S - Met 1 kMOWw YOUR MIND, 1 SHALL TARE YOU 1 WILL COME, Tao, VERY WELL, BROTHER. RAMA | WITHOUT VOU SHALL BE A SOLACE, YOu | DESIRE MOTHING, NOT ae TAKE ME WITH oD SET OWT FOR DASHARATHA'S PALACE ON FOOT. THE PEOPLE WATCHED THEME GELGKES PRINCE MIT TEARS IN THEIR EVES. A Formerty ALL THE FOUR CIVISIONS * OF THE ARMY USED To ATTEND ON RAMA. TOOAY NE 1S ONEY FOLLOWED BY SITA ff Wye PIG WH DECORATE AND LAKSHMANA. 20S THE CAPITAL ONLY 7 SEND ouR PRINCE TO THE See a z A nes yfRAMA |S VIRTUOUS, COMPASSIONATE , LEARNED, TRUTHFUL AND SELF CONTROLLED ... - % a WE WiLL oon HOW COULE 7 ===,| | ABANDON Gun THE KING SEND 7 Se] | HOMES AND SODBARA £4 bs FOLLOW RAMAT SOM INTO a OY WHEY AAMAS ARRIVAL WAS ANNOUNCED , THE OLE HEME AGSE TO GREET tnt wie MERT ANETE HE Pati bowN,| | Rama Raster FORMER, TOOK SENSELESS a He Aes. ————$$—<<— ! i He SRE FLRCED “HIM —— i!THA REGRINED COVSCIOUSNESS — | 0 Rina, KALKEYT HAS) FATHER, Afty Gon BETRAYED ME. Don'T |@RANT YOU MANY 65 TO THR Forte. MORE YEARS SET ME APE, ‘OF PEACE it SEIZE THE KINGDOM f YOUR KINGDOM. ANG RULE! &) (PIER FOURTEEN - YEARS, 1 WILL PERMIT ME Te § LEAVE NOW, FATHER, ¥ WITH SITA ANE B obaxsrimana. { PTNEN TAKE MY WEALTH ff AWD PEOPLE WITH You, | SAMA. LET THE Forest WHERE YOU PWHLL BE THE KINGPOM | jf OKING HBHARATA | || _ FATHER, WHAT NEED HAVE ff f WILL MOT ACCEPT [ey | OF WEALTH IM THE FORESTS] A KING De S THE TRECS, CLours, SPARK-M STRIPPED OF ITS oe “| UNG STREAMS —THOSE ‘WEALTH ANP i: ARE WEALTH PEOPLE. fWLt LEAD THE LIFE OF AM ASCETIC. ave Mr ROBES OF OAR HOW CAN WE BAR BE OUR PRINCE ATTIRED : IN BARK 2 io iE — RAMA AND CARSHMANA CHANGED INTE THE ROBES OF BARK = = = fake HOW PO WOMEN ASceTtes bel fs 2STA 1s MOT COMPELLED To GO INTO EXILE GOING OF HER OwM FREE WILL, iT 1S ONLY BEFITTING THAT SHE SHEOLO BE ATTREG IM ROYAL ORESS, ALSO, LOT MER KEEP HER ORNAMENTS AS WELL. PASHARATHA UPHELE: VASISNTHA'S CONTENTION. SITA BOWED TO THE WISHES OF TNE ELDERS, ANG ACEEOTELO A_| He cewamenrs orrekeo ox onsnawatnn. RAMA THEN SALUTED DASHARATHA AND THE QUEENS, AME LEET THE PALACE MITA SrTA AND Bidiswmane. wey srepres pire THE CHARIOT WHICH WOO FAKE THEM 7D THE BORmERS OF THE kiesOM. OANARIOTEER, PRVE SLOWLY T LOT US BEHOLE PLEASE GO BACK! IF YOU REALLY LOVE ME, BESTOW THE LOVE AND HOMOURE WOU SHOW! To ME =¥ AESUMED THELR JOURNEY O, CHILE, ACROSS THE TAMLNA UME GEVSE AGeeST. Hire [SUGGEST A SECLUPER) IG THE MOUNTAIN CHITRAKUTA WHICH 1S FILLED WITH FLOWER 3a" TE GANGA PAI FE MOULD MEET) MAY LIVE TH ARE FRUITS, SPRINGS AND ) teed WATERFALLS, THERE YOU WiLL : 7a FIN@ AM IPEAL RETRCAT- : SO RAMA WENT FO CHITRAKETA, ; WHGRE ME OeveT A NET BY TS - THE RIVER MAND AKIM. ave any — THE BIRPS ARE FRIGHTENED AN 7 1 Ste A CLOUD OF Bie Gust id THE Oe) § CSTANCE. LansHmana, PLEASE FIND OUT HAVING SECURED THE THROME, BHARATA Is BRINGING HIS ARAy HERE Fo GEDRIVE US OF OUR LIVES! PRESENTLY SEE THAT YOU'VE WRONGED ANOBLE SOUL:PRESSED IN AGCETNIC ROBES f WHAT NEWS FROM AYOCHYA #15 our PEAR FATHER WELL ? BHARATA! P owow masty SHATRUGHHA, TAM IM SURGING PEOPLE | suaara's LOVE FOR RAMA 1S. AS GREAT AS O RAMA, FATHER ceuLo NOT BEAR THE SEPARATION FROM YOu! HE WANTED 7o BEHOLD Y@U AGAIN. THINKING OF Yd, CALLING OUT YOUR MAME... J uy) BHARATA, | WAS LOOKING! WHILE | WAS eo ! 3 FORWARD TO RETURNING YET AT MY I ii TO AYOPHYA APTER MY GRANDFATHER'S a, ERILE. BUT 1 Plo LONGER HOUSE. 2 FEEL TKE SAME EACER-[il = 4 HESS HOW HAT i FATHER JS DEAD. GH! FATHER! FATHER |THEN RAMA OFFERED SUMANTEA, MISISHTHA AN? GTNEL ELCERS Wie 4OLIBATION GF WATER MAG BY THEN YOWWEG THEM CONSOLED Rana. THIS PEAP FATHER. O KING, MAY THIS You HAVEN'T SACRED WATER OFFERED ANSWERED MY QUESTION, | LAWFUL SUCCESSOR TODAY BE YOURS FOR BHARATA, WHY ARE 40U,/ TO THE THRONE IS EVER IN THE REGION TOO, DREESED IN LANGUISHING IM THE OF OUR ANCESTORS! ASCETIC ROBES? FOREST, HOW CAN | PON REVAL ROBES > THEN BHARATA OFFERED THE ROWAL ROBES AND SANDALS TO RAMA. PLEASE PUT ON THESE KINGLY ROBES ANG RETURN To AYORITYA . WHY NOT) RAMA > a, UR PHARMA TD iT IS THE PHARMA . LIES IN REDEEMING OUR| OF THE ELPEST FATHER'S PLEPGE To SON To ASCEND THE THRONE.THEM BHARATA APPEALED TO THE BLED: BUT RAMA WOLD NOT WELD. IF, IN OBEPIENCE TO My a THE ISSUE 1S STRAIGHT. IN FATHER'S COMMAN?, SOME — ACCORPANCE MITH THE BOON, YOU OHE MUST LIVE IN THE FOREST FOR FOURTEEN YEARS, THEN LET ME RULE ANG 1 60 INTO EXILE FOR 3 FOURTEEN YEARS. BE THE PERSON, INSTEAP. OF RAMA. IH OTHAT CAGE, | WILL RULE — BUT ONLY OM FUR BEHALF. | WILL PLACE YOUR SANDALS OM THE THRONE AS A SYMBOL OF SOUR AUTHORITY. | WILL LIVE GN FRUITS ANE ROOTS. =. AS YOu po. ) = fe ty RAMA PUT GN THE SANDALS OFFERED | [AFTER A WHILE, HE TOOK THEM GFF, AND BY aueany . \BHIRATA RECEIVED THEM WITH DUE RESPEC LTHEN HE DEOGRTED wiTH A HEOUY HEART. . BROTHER. PROTECT s Ag MOTHER KAIKEYI « ING THE HAPPY PAY WHEN ; q CON'T BE ANGRY YOU WILL RETURN Ta ¥: WITH HER. AYODHYA AT THE ENG OF THEN, ACCOMPANIED? BY SIT AND LAXSHAMANE, RAMA LS sy WENT TG THE DANBAKA FRREST WHERE HE meleot THE RANSHASA, WRREIA, = SEVERAL SAGES LING IM THE LATER, RAMA CALLED ite FOREST MET RAMA. AND SUE AS RESPECTS. THE SAGE GAVE tf we ARE WITHOUT A Ai CELESTIAL WEAPONS. PROTECTOR. DEFEND HOLY GNE, 1AM US FROM THE CRUEL GRATEFUL TO You PERSECUTION OF THE FOR YOUR KINPHESS. RAKSHASAS, PLEASE. SUSGEST A = PLACE WHERE | cAN DWELL WITH wy. WIFE ANP BROTHER!av TE MY 7? PANCHAWATI, Alt AGED WALTERS AGORESSED Ait — [/ © RAMA! AM JATAYE, A FRIEND OF YOUR FATHER'S, LWiLk STAY AROUNE WITH THIS 1S THE if} | PERFECT SOPOT Te BUILD Gu COTTAGE. CAXGSHMANA BEGAN TO Bite An WHEN 7 WAS READY, HE BATHED tM TE HOLY ASHRAM Oe HS SROTHER« GOMIMAR. HE PRIVED TO THE GODS AND PLACED 4 LOTUS ON THE THRESHOLD OF THE COTTAGE AS AN OFFERING Te THEM, TNEN HE SHOWER THE ASHRAM TO RAMA, [IT'S TORERRALS ised THE ONLY way ICAN REWAR Haat 1& B -+ EMBRACING YOLL.SPENT MANY HAPPY PAYS THERE. Ove aay, SHOGRARMANHR, A RAKSHAS!, WHO WAS PASGING THROUGH PAMCHAUATH, BAW RAMA WHAT A HANDSOME MAN TT WOULP LIKE TO MARRY HIM. ASSUMING A BEAUTIFUL FORM, SHE APPROACHED RAM. F o,a9cer1c, ARMED WITH BOW ANP ARRG}W, WHY HAVE You COME To THIS REGION OF THE RAKSHADAST LAM RAMA, THE SOM OF KING PASHARATHA, AND | FOR FOURTEEN YEARS | HAVE Ta LIVE IM EXILE Ik THIS FOREST. 1 AM SHGORPANAKHA, SISTER: OF THE MIGHTY RAVANA. KHARA AND POOSHANA OF MATCH- LESS STRENGTH, WHO RULE JANASTHANA ARE MY BROTHERS. ROMA SMILED ANG REPLIED IN A MOCKING TONE," /_ | AM ALREAGY MARRIED, BUT, LOOK , HERE 1% MY BROTHER, LAKSHMAHA, HE 1S WORTHY OF YOU, © BEAUTIFUL OHE!*YOU ARE A PRINCESS AND | AM ONLY RAMA’S nts iG] SLAVE. woutr iT BB/D IE TARE sexi sect: 4 Peo es be ae “ B | ME BECAUGE OF 0 MARRY MEP ieee OS your aaiv VLU Devour WER. | [as swe avonee STOP HER, LARSHMANA' THEN WILL YOu TORRRES SITA— Sas MARRY mee Ay 1 LARSHAIANA LEAPT AT HER AND cur GFF HER EARS ANE NOSE. SHOORPANAKHA REGAINED HER TRUE AGRM AND FLED,WOT LONG AFTER, SHOORPANAKHA RETURNER TO CANCHAVAT! WITH BOOSHANA, KHARA ANE OUATEEN THCUSAVE RASH LAKSHMANA, LEAVE THE RAKSHASAS TO JLT YOu TAKE SITa AWAY FROM HERE INTG THE SHELTER OF THAT CAVE! + EXCEPT FOR AKAMPANA, wid MAWAGED TO £S¢ASE. AVAMPANA FLEW QUER THE SQUTHERN OCEAN...MWY BROTHERS KILLED BY A MEI O KING, YOUR VALIANT BROTHERS,| i. KHARA ANP DOOSHANA, HAVE BEEN SLAIN BY RANA, THE PRINCE OF AYGDHYA. HE HAS INVITED @WGHTY ONE, HOT) [ THE ONLY WAY TO DESTROY HIM HIS OWN GésTRUC-] EVEN THE GopS IS TO CARRY AWAY HIG BEAUTIFUL TION, BY KILLING CAM QVERCOME WIFE, SITA. 8EREFT OF HER WHOM WY BROTHERS! Ramat ae HE LOVES PEARLY HE WILL, i L_cERTAINLY CIE OF A BROKEN Ee HEART | aa PLL SLAY HIM] LET ME CONSULT MARICHA. RALANA CALLER GN MARICHA WHO IAS MARCHA THEN RECALLED wis LEADING AN ASCETIC LIFE. GH ENCOUNTERS WITH RAMA. RAVARA, HE WHO HAS ApVISED port ANTAGOMISE RAMA YOU TO CARRY AWAY SITA [5 AH WHO HUNTS PEMONS as. ENEMY IM THE GUISE oF A rRItND. HE WOULD ObER, . IP BETTER TAKE YOUR:WHEN ME RETUENED HOWE, AAVANA FOUN SHOORPANAKHA WAITING FOR HIM, BROTHER, LOGY AT YOu DEAR SIGTER MUTILATED BY THAT MAN FROM AYODHWA LIF Vou | gl PONT AVENGE THE DEATH GF KHARA AND GOOSHAMA, BOTH THE GoPs AND HUMANS WILL CEASE TO FEAR THE RAKSHASASI yout PAVANA WENT TO Matra AGN TOT SEER AIG MELP IN ABRRTIMG ata — | NO GREATER SIN THAN COvVETING ANOTHER MAN'S WIFE! LEAVE SITA ALONE. SHALL FEEL THE KEEN EPGE OF LL PO WHAT vou ASK. BUT, REMEMBER, THOSE FOR WHOM THE LAST HOUR HAS STRUCK BIBREGARD THE COUNSEL OF THEIR WELL-WIGHERS . RAMA, LOOK AT THAT BEAUTIFUL FLOWER! IT HAS JUST OPENED J ——_ MS FACE TO THE Sun! SHOWED IT To ME YESTERDAY, WHEH IT Winds JUST A BUDI UST THEN, MAMA AMD AMARIENA HAD AREER AT PANCHALAT). Ee MARICHA, YOUR TASER 1S TO LURE RAMA ANP LAKSHMAMA AWAY FROM THE COTTAGE.ey. i ot : HONORING CAKSHMANA'S WORDS, Si7y LONTINGED — ’ y Sy 7 |" THAT DEER 1S Too % HA | ENT 1 SEAUTIFCR VON Na i WONPERFUL TO BE REAL. MM | Ger ir roR Me . f Loon, HOW IT SmNes! : t CERTAINLY, # y IT COULD ONLY BE f : MY PEARL tf A RAKSHASA! ¢ [/ LAXSHMANA, FLL BRING THAT PEER BACK ALIVE. IF IT Is) | A RAKSHASA IN DISGUISE, NLL SLAY Him. You STAY (| HERE AND GUARD Sita. ldTHE SwiFT=FooTED DEER MUST HAVE LED HIM FAR f= ff FARA WitL GET THE PEER, DEAD OR ALIVE. IT 1S MY LORD CRYING FOR | HELP, LARSHMANA | RUSH TO LAXBHMAMA WAS UNPERTURBED. ] Lear Sir has NOT CONVINCED. HE CAN'T BE. RAMA IS: GG, LAKSHMANA 1 YT ICANT GO.1 CANT INVINCIBLE. IT MUST BE A PLEASE GO4 HELP LEAVE YOU HERE RAKSHASA MIMICKING HIM. MY HUSBAND! ‘ ? LNPROTEETED, | WON'T LEAVE Se