Invocations

Bharata’s desolation; meeting of Bharata and Hanumān; rejoicing in Ayodhyā

Śrī Rāma’s Reception; meeting with Bharata; universal rejoicing on meeting Śrī Rāma

Śrī Rāma’s Coronation; Vedas’ Alleluia; Lord Śiva’s Alleluia

Śrī Rāma bestows parting presents on the monkeys and the Niṣāda chief

Account of Śrī Rāma’s Reign

Birth of sons to the four brothers; Ayodhyā’s loveliness; arrival of the sage Sanaka and his three brothers and their dialogue with Śrī Rāma

Hanumān’s introduction to Bharata’s question and Śrī Rāma’s discourse on the subject

Śrī Rāma’s exhortation to His subjects (Śrī Rāma-Gita); the citizens’ acknowledgement

Dialogue between Śrī Rāma and the sage Vasiṣṭha; Śrī Rāma’s excursion to a mango grove in the company of His brothers

Nārada’s visit and return to Brahmā’s abode after hymning the Lord’s praises

Dialogue between Lord Śiva and Goddess Pārvatī; Garuḍa’s delusion; Garuḍa listens to Śrī Rāma’s story and to an account of His glory from Kākabhuśuṇḍi

Kākabhuśuṇḍi narrates the story of his previous lives and tells Garuḍa the glory of the Kali age

Insult offered by him to his preceptor in a previous birth and the curse pronounced on him by Lord Śiva

A hymn of eight verses addressed to Lord Śiva

Guru’s appeal to Lord siva for forgiving the wrong; mollification of the curse; continuation of Kākabhuśuṇḍi’s narrative

Kākabhuśuṇḍi approaches the sage Lomaśa, who first pronounces a curse on him but later on showers his grace and bestows a boon on him

Delineation of Gnosis and Devotion; a description of the Lamp of wisdom and the surpassing glory of Devotion

Seven questions of Garuḍa and Kākabhuśuṇḍi’s replies to them

Glory of adoration

Greatness of the Rāmāyaṇa; Tulasīdāsa’s prayer and reward of reciting this poem