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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">When they brought Ravana’s body home to the palace from the battlefield, a great wail went up in the women’s quarters. In the commotion, nobody noticed that Nikasha, the old queen, slipped out of the palace and began to make her way to the hills outside the city. </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> “Lakshmana, be respectful. Let us hear what she has to say,” said Rama. The brothers stood up to receive Nikasha. Rama looked at Nikasha silently. She was of medium height and slender build. Her silky white hair was elegantly arranged and her clothes were in muted good taste. She had beautiful cheekbones and delicate hands and feet. So this was Ravana’s mother. Rama could not relate this proud, slim woman to bull-like Ravana and outsize Kumbhakarna. And then he looked at Nikasha’s eyes. They burned black with an inner fire. </ins></div></td></tr>
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