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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt:...could do nothing. At that instant the hunch-backed woman came there, dressed in different clothes and ornaments. The younger brother of Lakshman having seen her, became filled with anger, as if the blazing fire had got the offering of ghee. Springing he aimed at her and kicked her hunch: she fell headlong on the ground, and screamed aloud. Her hunch was fractured and her forehead split; her teeth were broken, and blood gushed from her mouth. (She said), "God! what mishcief have I committed? In doing good I received bad fruit?" Again Salrughan having seen (the hunch-backed woman, ) who was wicked from head to foot, began to drag her forcibly by her hair. But Bharat, the receptacle of mercy, let her go. The two brothers then went to Kaushallya. (157.) Couplet. Her clothes were dirty, (her countenance) disfigured and melancholy, and her body lean and loaded with grief, just as the forest of gold lotuses and beautiful creepers when destroyed by snow. Verse. The mother on seeing Bharat ran (towards him), and fell on the ground senseless. On seeing this Bharat became very much distressed, and fell at her feet forgetting the state of his own body. (He said), "O mother! shew me where is my father, and where are Seeta, and the two brothers Ram and Laksbman? Why has Kaikai been born in the world, and being born why did she not become barren? She is the disgrace of the family, and has given me birth. She has made me worthy of a bad name, and an enemy to my friends. Who in the three worlds is unfortunate like me, since for my sake, 0 mother! such has been your plight? My father has gone to Paradise, and the Emblem of the Raghu family to the forest, but I am the sole cause of all these mischiefs. Woe unto me! I have become the fire for...