78Canto LXXVIII. Manthará Punished.Śatrughna thus to Bharat spake Who longed the forest road to take: “He who in woe was wont to give Strength to himself and all that live— Dear Ráma, true and pure in heart, Is banished by a woman's art. Yet here was Lakshmaṇ, brave and strong, Could not his might prevent the wrong? Could not his arm the king restrain, Or make the banished free again? One loving right and fearing crime Had checked the monarch's sin in time, When, vassal of a woman's will, His feet approached the path of ill.” While Lakshmaṇ's younger brother, dread