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The Golden Deer
Narayan's Ramayana
- Maricha assumed the shape of a golden deer with silvern spots
- golden tints upon his haunches
- sapphire on his antlers
- neck was golden
- silver-white his flank and side
- this starts out as a story and then goes into a rhyming
- Want to capture the deer and then slay the deer for Sita's sake
- afterwards will skin him to use his hide as a "golden carpet"
Narayan's Ramayama
- Rama chases the deer and shoots an arrow at it, which pierces through its heart
- causes Maricha to spring out of the deer's body and begins to cry out for Sita to save him, but he ends up dying
- Sita cries out
- she cannot live without Rama
- says that she will not live one moment after he dies
- also says that if Rama is slain that she will die by drowning, or by poison, or else by the noose
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