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# Ayodhya Kand · Doha 110

Śrī Rāma greets the Yamunā; love of the villagers

**चौ०** 
> सुनत तीरबासी नर नारी। धाए निज निज काज बिसारी॥  
> लखन राम सिय सुंदरताई। देखि करहिं निज भाग्य बड़ाई॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> अति लालसा बसहिं मन माहीं। नाउँ गाउँ बूझत सकुचाहीं॥  
> जे तिन्ह महुँ बयबिरिध सयाने। तिन्ह करि जुगुति रामु पहिचाने॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> सकल कथा तिन्ह सबहि सुनाई। बनहि चले पितु आयसु पाई॥  
> सुनि सबिषाद सकल पछिताहीं। रानी रायँ कीन्ह भल नाहीं॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> तेहि अवसर एक तापसु आवा। तेजपुंज लघुबयस सुहावा॥  
> कबि अलखित गति बेषु बिरागी। मन क्रम बचन राम अनुरागी॥४॥

Meaning: Hearing of their arrival the people inhabiting the river banks ran up to see them unmindful of their preoccupations. Beholding the beauty of Lakṣmaṇa, Śrī Rāma and Sītā they congratulated themselves on their good luck. (1)

Their hearts were seized with intense longing, but they felt shy in enquiring their names and the name of their home-town. Such of them, however, as were advanced in years and intelligent were able to recognize Śrī Rāma by dint of their wit. (2)

They related to them the whole story telling them how Śrī Rāma had proceeded to the woods in obedience to His father’s command. They were all sad to hear this and lamented: “The king and queen have not done well.” (3)

In the meantime there arrived an ascetic* who was an embodiment of spiritual glow, young in years and charming in appearance. His ways were unknown to the poet; he was attired in the garb of a recluse and was devoted to Śrī Rāma in thought, word and deed. (4)

* This episode of an ascetic has been ignored by some commentators as an interpolation as obviously it is disconnected with the main thread of the narrative and appears to have been inserted afterwards. All the same the lines are found in all old manuscripts. The poet, Tulasīdāsa, was a saint of uncommon spiritual insight. It is, therefore, difficult to say what was his intention in writing these lines. In any case, the episode cannot be dismissed as an interpolation. When the ascetic has been spoken of here as unknown even to the poet, no one can say with any amount of certainty who he was. To our mind he is none else than the monkey-god, Śrī Hanumān, or a mental projection of the poet Tulasīdāsa himself.

**दो०** 
> सजल नयन तन पुलकि निज इष्टदेउ पहिचानि।  
> परेउ दंड जिमि धरनितल दसा न जाइ बखानि॥११०॥

Meaning: His eyes were wet with tears and a thrill ran through his body when he came to recognize his beloved Deity, Śrī Rāma. He fell prostrate on the ground and the state of his body and mind cannot be described in words. (110)

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