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JANAKA, KING OF THE VIDEHAS

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has, to the admiration and gratitude of posterity, but, curiously enough, posterity remembers him, as well

SCENE IN CEYLON.

as the Videhas and the Kosalas, rather through a myth which has become associated with their names, and relates to the Aryan conquest of Southern India, the Ramayana, the second great epic of India, being devoted