Thus the Lord sported as a child, to the delight of all the people of the city. The mother would at one time dandle him on her knees and at another would rock him in the cradle.

Kausalya remained so rapt in love that days and nights passed unnoticed. Utterly possessed by love for her son, she would sing of his childhood acts.

One day his mother bathed and dressed her son and put him to sleep in the cradle. Then she too bathed, preparing to worship the patron deity of her house.

Having worshipped the deity, she offered her oblation and then returned to the kitchen. When she returned to the place of worship, she saw her son eating the food that had been offered to the Lord.

Frightened at this, the mother ran off to her son and found him sleeping there as before. Coming back once more to the temple, she still saw her son there. Her heart beat fast and her mind found no rest.

She saw two boys, one in the temple and the other in the nursery. She said to herself, “Is it my mental illusion or some other unusual phenomenon?” When Rama saw his mother so perplexed, the Lord smiled sweetly and laughed.

The Lord then revealed to his mother his wondrous form, infinite. Millions of universes she saw set on every hair.