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Ayodhya Kanda Sarga 77 Shloka 5
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ततः प्रभातसमये दिवसेऽथ त्रयोदशे।।2.77.4।। विललाप महाबाहुर्भरत श्शोकमूर्छितः। शब्दापिहितकण्ठस्तु शोधनार्थमुपागतः।।2.77.5।। चितामूले पितुर्वाक्यमिदमाह सुदुःखितः।
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English Translation

ततः then, त्रयोदशे on the thiteenth, दिवसे day, प्रभातसमये at dawn, अथ thereafter, शोधनार्थम् for purification, उपागतः having arrived (at the cemetery), महाबाहुः mightyarmed, भरतः Bharata, शोकमूर्छितः rendered unconscious by grief, शब्दापिहितकण्ठः loudly, विललाप lamented, पितुः father's, चितामूले at the foot of the pyre, सुदुःखितः intensely grieved, इदं वाक्यम् these words, आह spoke.

English Commentary

Thereafter at the hour of dawn on the thirteenth day mightyarmed Bharata visited the cemetery to perform the purificatory ceremony. Approaching the place of the funeral pyre of his father, he lamented in the intensity of grief: