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Where Bharata did Tapas for 14 Years
दृढभक्तिरिति ज्येष्टे राज्यतृष्णापराङ्मुखः ।
मातुः पापस्य भरतः प्रायश्चित्तमिवाकरोत् ॥१२.१९॥
Notes: The next fourteen years were very eventful in Śrīrāma's life. All that time, however, was a period of severe self-abnegation and Tapas for Bharata. Kālidāsa says, "Bharata, as it were, atoned for his mother's sin by penance. He spent all the years in a spirit of total devotion to his elder brother. That is why he was never tempted by the allurements of sitting on the Ayodhyā throne as the supreme king himself."
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