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 | | 94-102 and end-notes), sowing mistrust in Queen Kaikeyi and plotting the exile of Rama. |
 | | Persuaded by Manthara, Kaikeyi praises her (Sarga 9, 28-39) suggesting that "this huge hump of yours, wide as the hub of a chariot wheel - your clever ideas must be stored in it" (p.101), and promising to have the hump anointed with liquid gold and to give Manthara her own hunchback maidservants. |
 | | Manthara's hump and her reasons for taking revenge on Rama; Dasaratha's accidental killing of a boy who supported aged, blind parents; the blindness of that boy's father had arisen from his revulsion when washing the legs of a sage who suffered from elephantiasis; Kaikeyi had also been cursed for mocking an aged, infirm, hearing-impaired Brahmin. |
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