"With you and Lakshmana by me, I am so happy and content. How pleasant it is
to see the animals drinking water in the stream without any fear! Plunging in the water
here, eating fruits and roots, walking about in the forest and climbing the hills, why
should I think of kingdom or power?"
Thus, in the company of Seeta and Lakshmana, Raama was
spending happy days.
One day as they were sitting as usual on
the slope of the hill in utter peace, suddenly at a distance, they saw a cloud of dust
rise in the sky which seemed moving towards them. And soon they heard a great noise as of
a big crowd. Raama saw the forest animals stampeding hither and thither in fear. It looked
as if an army entered the forest. |
