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# Ayodhya Kand · Doha 100

**चौ०** 
> जासु बियोग बिकल पसु ऐसें। प्रजा मातु पितु जिइहहिं कैसें॥  
> बरबस राम सुमंत्रु पठाए। सुरसरि तीर आपु तब आए॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> मागी नाव न केवटु आना। कहइ तुम्हार मरमु मैं जाना॥  
> चरन कमल रज कहुँ सबु कहई। मानुष करनि मूरि कछु अहई॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> छुअत सिला भइ नारि सुहाई। पाहन तें न काठ कठिनाई॥  
> तरनिउ मुनि घरिनी होइ जाई। बाट परइ मोरि नाव उड़ाई॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> एहिं प्रतिपालउँ सबु परिवारू। नहिं जानउँ कछु अउर कबारू॥  
> जौं प्रभु पार अवसि गा चहहू। मोहि पद पदुम पखारन कहहू॥४॥

Meaning: When even beasts felt so miserable on being torn away from Him, how could His subjects and His father and mother hope to live without Him? Śrī Rāma bid Sumantra to return against the latter’s will and Himself arrived at the bank of the heavenly stream, Gaṅgā, immediately afterwards. (1)

He called for a boat, but the ferryman would not bring it. The latter said, “I know your subtle secret; about the pollen dust of your lotus feet everyone says it is some herb possessing the quality of turning solid things into human beings. (2)

“By its very touch a rock was transformed into a charming woman* and wood is not harder than stone. If my boat itself gets converted into a hermit’s wife (like Ahalyā), I shall be robbed of the very means of my subsistence, in that my boat will disappear. (3)

* The boatman evidently refers here, in his own rustic yet humorous way, to Ahalyā, who had been transformed into a rock by the curse of her husband Gautama and was restored to her human form by the very touch of Śrī Rāma’s feet (vide Bālakāṇḍa, Dohā 210 and the Chaṁdas immediately following it).

“It is by means of this boat that I maintain the whole of my family; I know no other profession. If, therefore, my lord, you must cross the river, command me to lave your lotus feet. (4)

**छं०** 
> पद कमल धोइ चढ़ाइ नाव न नाथ उतराई चहौं।  
> मोहि राम राउरि आन दसरथ सपथ सब साची कहौं॥  
> बरु तीर मारहुँ लखनु पै जब लगि न पाय पखारिहौं।  
> तब लगि न तुलसीदास नाथ कृपाल पारु उतारिहौं॥

Meaning: “I will let you aboard the boat only when I have laved your lotus feet; I seek no toll from you. I swear by you, O Śrī Rāma, as well as by King Daśaratha, that what I tell you is all true. Let Lakṣmaṇa shoot me with his arrows, if he will; but until I have laved your feet I will not, O gracious lord of Tulasīdāsa, ferry you across.”

**सो०** 
> सुनि केवट के बैन प्रेम लपेटे अटपटे।  
> बिहसे करुनाऐन चितइ जानकी लखन तन॥१००॥

Meaning: On hearing these words of the ferryman, rambling though imbued with deep love, the all-merciful Lord looked at Jānakī and Lakṣmaṇa and smiled. (100)

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