RAMA AND LAKSHMANA OBSERVE LAST RITES TO dASARADHA

Rama fainted here About Dasaradhas demise.Bharatha.Lakshmana,Seetha and Sathrughna helped him revive.Rama was weeping and saying to Bharatha so.He was wondering at the play of fate.What a difficult situation were they now facing?He could not even do Last rites to his father.There was no such a cursed person in the entire world as he.Bharatha and Sathrughna were blessed ,because they could attend to their fathers last rites.He would not enter Ayodhya where Dasaradha was not there. Even after fourteen years of Vanavasa also,he would not return to Ayodhya.

He then directed Lakshamana to bring flour to be able to do udaka danam.Seetha,Lakshamana,and Rama went to Mandaakinee river and did jalatharpanam.Then they did sapindeekaranam.They mixed flour with Regupandlu and called his father and pleaded him to accept that as pinda pradanam ,because that was their staple food in the forest.They all returned after performing jala tharpanam. After returning ,he hugged all his three brothers.All wept in abig voice. Their crying so hard could be heard by people nearby .They could understand that because of their fathers loss, they were crying.