सर्गः ७१
In which Bharata performs śrāddha gifts, wails at his father ash-covered pyre with Śatrughna, and Vasiṣṭha and Sumantra console the fallen brothers
Bharata performs śrāddha rites on twelfth day — Bharata gifts brāhmaṇas jewels wealth food cattle servants houses carriages — Bharata laments grief-stunned at pyre on thirteenth dawn — Bharata mourns father abandoning him and exiled Rāma — Śatrughna blames Mantharā sea vowing fire and tapōvana — Bharata and Śatrughna collapse wailing on ground — Vasiṣṭha lifts Bharata preaching inevitable pairs — Sumantra consoles Śatrughna with birth-death truth — Ministers urge tearful princes to remaining rites