Kuśa and Lava
historical figure · 1 work · 4 mentions · 12 anchored passages
Lava · Kuśa · sons of Jānakī · the two bards · the two disciples · the two princes · the two singers · the two sons of the sage · those two bards · two wandering bards
in the texts
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
Rāma's twin sons, raised as ascetics in Vālmīki's hermitage, whom Vālmīki teaches to sing the Rāmāyaṇa.
"Ah, what sweetness in the singing — and especially in the verses!
"These two ascetics — endowed with royal marks, Kuśa and Lava — are mighty in austerities.
Hearing it, all the sages — their eyes brimming with tears — said to those two, 'Well done!