else for some time. At length one day news came that Rohini was ill, that she lay in her room with shaven head, unable to go out, and that Brahmânanda was cooking for himself.
Then it was said that Rohini was somewhat better, but the cause of her illness was not removed; that she had sharp internal pains which could not be cured; that she was going to the holy shrine at Târakeswar[1] to be cured by self-torture. Then news came that she had gone to Târakeswar, gone alone, for who was there to go with her?
Thus three or four months passed, Gobind Lâl did not return; five, six months, yet he came not. Bhramar wept ceaselessly. She thought incessantly, "Where is he? How is he? If I knew only this I could live. Why do I not hear even this?"
At length Bhramar spoke to her husband's sister, and got a letter written to his mother saying, "As his mother you certainly must have news of your son." The mother wrote that she had news of Gobind Lâl. He had been journeying to Allâhabâd, Mathurâ,
- ↑ See Appendix, Note 8.
