🪷 Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa · 6.97.16

Yuddha-Kāṇḍa · The Book of War · Sarga 97 · Verse 16

Place in the Rāmāyaṇa

This is verse 16 of Sarga 97 in Yuddha-Kāṇḍa (Kāṇḍa 6 of 7)
Kāṇḍa theme: Setu-bandha to Laṅkā via Nala-Nīla's engineering · the great war · Kumbhakarṇa-Indrajit-Rāvaṇa fall sequentially · agni-parīkṣā · puṣpaka-yāna return · Rāma's coronation at Ayodhyā · Rāmarājya begins
Total ślokas in this Kāṇḍa: 5,578

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Read the complete Yuddha-Kāṇḍa Sarga 97 (37 ślokas), return to the Yuddha-Kāṇḍa sarga index, or enter the Rāmcharitamānas companion reading.

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