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[Full title: Section III: Exile of Rama; (A) Dasaratha鈥檚 decision to crown Rama]

According to the Paumacariya Dasaratha realises his old age and asks his ministers to enthrone Rama so that he himself may become an ascetic (31.56). This realisation comes to him at the sight of the pitiable condition of his chamberlain Kancuki (29.20-29) emaciated by old age. His desire to renounce the world is intensified after listening to the religious discourse and the account of his previous life from a monk (30.36 to 31.49). On this occasion all the four sons of Dasaratha are there. In the Valmiki Ramayana also it is the old age which inspires Dasaratha to announce Rama as his heir-apparent (2.1. 36; 2.4.12), though the cause of its realisation is not given. Sumantra tells at one place that he and Dasaratha would have entered the life of anchorites after installing Rama on the throne (2.35.35). Here Dasaratha wants to enthrone Rama as soon as possible in the absence of Bharata who is away from home (2.4. 18-27). Dasaratha apprehends some intrigue¹ from Bharata, He is said to have seen some inauspicious dreams. Rama also while persuading Laksmana to stay behind at home, expresses his suspicion in Bharata's faithfulness to his mother (2.31.14). In the Ramcharitmanas the realisation of old age comes through the observation of a grey hair growing near his ear (2. 2). There is no reference to any suspicion of Dasaratha in Bharata. On the contrary it is mentioned 1. This suspicion seems to be quite appropriate when one comes across Rama telling Bharata on the Citrakuta hill that their father while marrying Kaikeyi, had promised her father that the kingdom would be entrusted to samudvaham/matamahe her son (Purabhratah pita nah sa mataram te samasrausidrajyasul kamanuttamam 2. 107. 3). The Pratima Nataka also corroborates it: Bharata tells the Devakulika that Kaikeyi might have demanded kingdom for him remembering the 'sulkadosam' (3.11), At another place (3.19) Kaikeyi admits it before Bharata (Jada sukkaluddha nanu pucchidavvaa). According to the Satyopakhyana, Kaikaya married his daughter to Dasaratha on a promise from the latter that the crown of the kingdom would pass to the son of Kaikeyi (Rama-katha; by Dr. C. Bulke (First Edition)., p. 278).

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE RAMA-STORY 51 that Rama along with Sita (2.7) and the people of Ayodhya (2. 11) was eagerly awaiting the return of Bharata to grace the occasion of his coronation. In the Ramopakhyana (Mahabharata, 3.277.15) there is no indication to any such suspicion of Dasaratha in Bharata. According to the Mahanataka Bharata was not away from home at the time of Dasaratha's decision to crown Rama (3. 5). The Paumacariya (29. 79. to 31. 90), the Paumacariu (32. 3, 9), the Trishashti Shalaka Purusha-caritra (IV. p. 209) and the Ramapurana of Bhattaraka Somasena. (p. 97) are in agreement with the Paumacariya The Uttarapurana (78. 9) and the Mahapurana (70.18) state that Dasaratha announces Rama and Laksmana as the king and the heirapparent respectively and send them to Varanasi, their ancestral capital, to rule over there.