Dasharatha's night hunt and the blind parents' curse

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Dasharatha dies of grief for his son, exactly the grief he caused the boy's parents.

As prince regent Dasharatha hunts at night by the Sarayu and shoots toward a sound he takes for an elephant. The arrow hits a young hermit filling his pitcher for his blind aged parents. The dying boy asks the king to remove the arrow and tell them. Dasharatha confesses this to Kausalya as he dies; sarga 64 continues.