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Lava and Kuśa
Twin sons of Rāma and Sītā. The poem is sung to its own hero by his sons.
Uttara KāṇḍaVālmīki (primary text)In the text
Lava and Kuśa are born in Vālmīki's hermitage after Rāma has sent Sītā away, and the sage raises and teaches them. At the aśvamedha in Uttara Kāṇḍa they sing the Rāmāyaṇa before Rāma, the sages and the kings. Bāla and Uttara Kāṇḍa are often treated as later additions, and this frame belongs to both.
Primary text: Śrīmad Vālmīkīya Rāmāyaṇa, Gita Press, Gorakhpur. Later traditions and living-tradition associations are labelled as such. Return to the Rāmāyaṇa World.