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Updated: June 26, 2025
And the king of the Rakshasa then entered his own city known by the name of Lanka, accompanied by Sita. And beholding his brother, Rama reproved him, saying, "How couldst thou come hither, leaving the princess of Videha in a forest that is haunted by the Rakshasa?"
I offered up your son in the sacrificial fire: that sin has lodged my soul in this obscurity. King, tell us the story, we implore you; the recital of crime can still bring life's fire into our torpor. I was named Somaka, the King of Videha.
The princess of Videha was rescued with almost no allies by Rama after the slaughter in battle of the Ten-necked Rakshasa of terrible prowess! Think of all this, O king, in thy mind! Illustrious persons like thee never indulge in sorrow, O smiter of foes!" Vaisampayana continued, "It was thus that the king was comforted by Markandeya.
But the Brahmanic and Buddhist accounts do not give two successive phases of thought in the same people, for the locality is not quite the same. Both pictures include the territory of Kâśi and Videha, but the Brahmanic landscape lies mainly to the west and the Buddhist mainly to the east of this region.
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