PLATE TWO

Being prayed for by the demigods, the Supreme Personality of God-
head, the Absolute Truth Himself, directly appeared with His expansion
and expansions of the expansion. Their holy names were Rama,
Laksmana, Bharata and Satrughna. These celebrated incarnations thus
appeared in four forms as the sons of Maharaja Dasaratha. Carrying out
the order of His father, who was bound by a promise to his wife, Lord
Ramacandra left behind His kingdom, opulence, friends, well-wishers,
residents and everything else and went to the forest with His wife,
mother Sita, and His younger brother Lord Laksmana. Carrying His in-
vincible bow and arrows in His hand, Lord Rama wandered throughout
the forest for fourteen years, accepting a life of hardship. (pp. 49-50)
