जय श्रीराम!
Notes: Śrīrāma spent the long years in the forest with Sītā and Lakṣmaṇa travelling southward into denser and denser forest regions, accepting the kind hospitality of ascetics here and there in their hermitages. He was virtually incognito as nobody could see the splendour and royalty of the scion of Ayodhyā come into their midst dressed as he was in the garb of a mendicant.
Kālidāsa says, "Just as the sun moves towards the southern hemisphere during the star formations of the Monsoon season, i.e. hidden from view with his cloud camouflage, Śrīrāma travelled southward in the forest, occasionally receiving kind hospitality from ascetic groups in their hermitages. "
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