CHAPTER ELEVEN
Lord Ramacandra Rules the World
This chapter describes how Lord Ramacandra resided in Ayodhya with
His younger brothers and performed various sacrifices.

Lord Ramacandra, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, performed
various sacrifices by which to worship Himself, and at the end of these
sacrifices He gave land to the hota, adhvaryu, udgata and brahma
priests. He gave them the eastern, western, northern and southern direc-
tions respectively, and the balance He gave to the dcdrya. Lord
Ramacandra’s faith in the brahmanas and affection for His servants was
observed by all the brahmanas, who then offered their prayers to the
Lord and returned whatever they had taken from Him. They regarded
the enlightenment given to them by the Lord within the core of their
hearts as a sufficient contribution. Lord Ramacandra subsequently
dressed Himself like an ordinary person and began wandering within the
capital to understand what impression the citizens had of Him. By
chance, one night He heard a man talking to his wife, who had gone to
another man’s house. In the course of rebuking his wife, the man spoke
suspiciously of the character of Sitadevi. The Lord immediately returned
home, and, fearing such rumors, He superficially decided to give up
Sitadevi’s company. Thus He banished Sitadevi, who was pregnant, to
the shelter of Valmiki Muni, where she gave birth to twin sons, named
Lava and Kua. In Ayodhya, Laksmana begot two sons named Angada
and Citraketu, Bharata begot two sons named ‘Taksa and Puskala, and
Satrughna begot two sons named Subahu and Srutasena. When Bharata
went out to conquer various lands on behalf of the emperor, Lord Rama-
candra, He fought many millions of Gandharvas. By killing them in the
fight, He acquired immense wealth, which He then brought home.
Satrughna killed a demon named Lavana at Madhuvana and thus
established the capital of Mathura. Meanwhile, Sitddevi placed her two
sons in the care of Valmiki Muni and then entered into the earth. Upon
hearing of this, Lord Ramacandra was very much aggrieved, and thus He
performed sacrifices for thirteen thousand years. After describing the

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