Ayodhyākānda - Canto 104

Accompanied by Kausalyā and others, Sage Vasistha proceeds to the hermitage of Śrī Rāma. Showing to her co-wives the lumps of the pulp of the Ingudī fruit offered to the spirit of his deceased father by Śrī Rāma on blades of Kuśa grass placed with their ends pointing to the south along the bank of the Mandākinī on the way, Kausalyā grieves for her deceased husband. Reaching the hermitage, Kausalyā and others see the two brothers, Śrī Rāma and Laksmana, fall at their feet. Kausalyā bewails the lot of Sītā when the latter falls at her feet. Bowing down at the feet of his preceptor, Śrī Rāma takes his seat. Accompanied by the counsellors, Bharata too sits nearby.