The fourteen years end. Rama returns to Ayodhya, where his devoted brother Bharata has kept Rama’s sandals on the throne as a regent. The coronation of Rama ( Rama Rajya ) is a golden age: no crime, no disease, no poverty, no untimely death. It is the utopian ideal against which all Indian kings are measured.

Before leaving, Hanuman decided to deliver a message. He allowed himself to be captured and brought