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# Ayodhya Kand · Doha 155

The sage Vasiṣṭha sends envoys to call Bharata

**चौ०** 
> धरि धीरजु उठि बैठ भुआलू। कहु सुमंत्र कहँ राम कृपालू॥  
> कहाँ लखनु कहँ रामु सनेही। कहँ प्रिय पुत्रबधू बैदेही॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> बिलपत राउ बिकल बहु भाँती। भइ जुग सरिस सिराति न राती॥  
> तापस अंध साप सुधि आई। कौसल्यहि सब कथा सुनाई॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> भयउ बिकल बरनत इतिहासा। राम रहित धिग जीवन आसा॥  
> सो तनु राखि करब मैं काहा। जेहिं न प्रेम पनु मोर निबाहा॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> हा रघुनंदन प्रान पिरीते। तुम्ह बिनु जिअत बहुत दिन बीते॥  
> हा जानकी लखन हा रघुबर। हा पितु हित चित चातक जलधर॥४॥

Meaning: Recovering himself the king got up and sat down. “Tell me, Sumantra, where is my gracious Rāma? Where is Lakṣmaṇa and where my lovable Rāma? Where is my beloved daughter-in-law, Jānakī?” (1)

The restless monarch wailed in many ways; the night seemed to him like an age and he felt as though it would never end. The king got reminded of the blind hermit’s curse and he narrated the whole story* to Kausalyā. He was filled with agony as he related the episode.(2)

* The story has been told at length in the Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki (Ayodhyā-Kāṇḍa, Cantos 63-64). One day, when Daśaratha was still young, he was out hunting and rode to the bank of the Sarayū in search of game. The sun had set and the king heard at a distance what he believed to be the trumpeting of a wild elephant. The king, who was expert at hitting an invisible mark by its sound, discharged an arrow and lo! it struck a young hermit, Śravaṇa by name, who had been filling a pitcher for the use of his blind and aged parents. The king discovered to his great chagrin that what he had mistaken for the trumpeting of an elephant had been the gurgling sound caused by the filling of the pitcher. The hermit did not mind his own death; but he was worried about his helpless parents, who wholly depended on him. He, therefore, implored the king to carry the water to the hermitage and inform his parents of what had happened to their son. With these dying words the hermit breathed his last and the king did as he was bid by the young anchorite. Śravaṇa’s parents, when they heard of his sad fate, begged the king to conduct them to the place where their son’s dead body was and in their excessive agony pronounced a curse on the king that he too would die of grief of parting from his son. It is of this incident that the king got reminded at the time of his death.

“Fie on the hope of surviving without Rāma. What shall I gain by preserving this body, which has failed to keep my vow of love? (3)

“O delighter of Raghus, Rāma, who is dear to me as life, already I have lived too long without you. Ah! Jānakī and Lakṣmaṇa, Ah! Raghuvara, who gladdened the loving heart of your father as a rain-cloud delights the Cātaka bird.” (4)

**दो०** 
> राम राम कहि राम कहि राम राम कहि राम।  
> तनु परिहरि रघुबर बिरहँ राउ गयउ सुरधाम॥१५५॥

Meaning: Wailing “Rāma, Rāma” and again “Rāma” and yet again “Rāma, Rāma, “Rāma”, the king cast off his body in his agony of separation from Śrī Rāma and ascended to the abode of gods. (155)

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