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384 that you have to do, my son, is to go and see Síta and come back with the news. Then the lotus-eyed, by the might of his own arm, taking with him merely for a show his hosts of monkeys,

With his hosts of monkeys Ráma will destroy the demons and recover Síta; and gods and saints and Nárad and all will declare his glory, that sanctifies the three spheres." Any man attains the highest beatitude who hears, sings, tells or meditates upon the feet of Raghubír, lotus flowers which, like the bee, Tulsi Dás is ever singing.

If any man or woman will study the glories of Raghunáth, the panacea for all the ills of life, Siva will make him to prosper in everything that he desires.

Hearken then to his praises, with his body dark of hue as the lotus, with more than all the beauty of a myraid Loves, the fowler who sweeps into his net all kinds of sin as it were so many birds.

[Thus endeth the Book entitled "," composed by Tulsi Dás for the bestowal of pure wisdom and continence; being the fourth descent into the holy lake of Ráma's deeds, that cleanses from every defilement of the world.]