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Updated: June 16, 2025
Besides seven Hindoo evangelists also on probation, there were five survivors of the band of converts called from time to time to the ministry Krishna Pal, the first, who is entered on the list as "the beloved"; Krishna Dass, Ram Mohun, Seeta Ram, and Seeta Dass. Carey's third son Jabez was soon to become the most advanced of the three brothers away in far Amboyna.
He turned upon her, suddenly, a face like a mother's, and touched her hand with a light caress. "I stay in a workhouse sevena-hunder' year," he said gently, "you come seeta by window some-a-time." At this Bertha turned away, was silent for a space, leaning on the gate-post in front of her uncle's house, whither they were now come.
Nothing remarkable occurs thereupon until Rama has attained the marriageable age, when he espouses Seeta, daughter of the King of Mithili. Immediately old Mrs.
Hoonamunta bit, very tenderly, her slender white finger; but she stirred not, she made no sign. Then he whispered softly in her ear, "Rama comes!" and Seeta started from her death-sleep, and sat erect; her eyes were open, and she cried, "My Lord, I am here!"
For the present he will take his wife Seeta, whose will is his, and go out into the wilderness, there to build him a hut of bamboos and banian-boughs and palmyra-leaves, and be Seeta and he two jolly yogees, that is, religious gypsies, living on grass-roots, wild rice, and white ants, and being dirty and devout to their heart's content.
Especially is he curious as to the charms of Seeta, as to the mighty magic wherewithal she renders monogamy acceptable to an Ayodhyan prince. By Indra! he will see for himself!
Then Hoonamunta turned him to his host, and said, "Bide here till I come, and be silent; break not the quiet of divine sorrow." And he went forth with mighty bounds. That night he came to Lunka. But the city slept; if Seeta yet lived, she, too, was silent; no cry of sorrow rose on the night; no stir, as of an unusual event, disturbed the stillness and the gloom.
So they went; and for a little while they enjoyed, undisturbed, their yogeeish ideas of a good time. Mithili, the disgust of old Doosurath, the distraction of the kingdom of Ayodhya, and the whimsical adventure of Rama and Seeta.
And Seeta comes forth, with water in a palm-leaf and grass-roots in the fold of her saree; and when she beholds the false yogee her heart blooms with pity, so that her smile is as the alighting of butterflies, and her voice as the rustling of roses.
Bagh! Khodamund! Arree Bap re Bap! Ram Ram, Seeta Ram! Breathless with running, the men now tumbled up, hurriedly salaamed, arid then each with gasps and choking stops, and pell-mell volubility, and amid a running fire of cries, queries, and interjections from the mob, began to unfold their tale.
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