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Jabali
Jabali (Sanskrit: ) is a character in the ancient Indian epic Ramayana. A learned Brahmin priest and an advisor of Dasharatha, he unsuccessfully tries to persuade Rama to give up his exile, using rational arguments.
== Attempt to persuade Rama ==
In Ramayana, Rama abandons his claim to the royal throne and goes on a 14-year exile, in order to help his father keep a promise. Rama considers his decision as his ''dharma'' (righteous duty), necessary for his father's honour. In ''Ayodhya Khanda'', Jabali accompanies Bharata to the forest, as part of a group that tries to convince Rama to give up his exile.〔
Jabali uses nihilist reasoning to dissuade Rama from continuing the exile. He states that those give up ''artha'' (material pleasures) for the sake of ''dharma'' suffer in this life and meet extinction after their death. Showing further disbelief in the concept of afterlife, he criticizes the ''shraddha'' ritual, in which people offer food to their dead ancestors. He calls it a wastage of food, and sarcastically suggests that if food eaten by one person at a given place could nourish another person at another place, ''shraddha'' should be conducted for those going on long journeys, so they would not need to eat anything. However, even after listening to the arguments of Jabali and others, Rama refuses to give up his exile and extols the virtues of following the ''dharma''.
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