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# Ayodhya Kand · Doha 170

**चौ०** 
> नृपतनु बेद बिदित अन्हवावा। परम बिचित्र बिमानु बनावा॥  
> गहि पद भरत मातु सब राखी। रहीं रानि दरसन अभिलाषी॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> चंदन अगर भार बहु आए। अमित अनेक सुगंध सुहाए॥  
> सरजु तीर रचि चिता बनाई। जनु सुरपुर सोपान सुहाई॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> एहि बिधि दाह क्रिया सब कीन्ही। बिधिवत न्हाइ तिलांजुलि दीन्ही॥  
> सोधि सुमृति सब बेद पुराना। कीन्ह भरत दसगात बिधाना॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> जहँ जस मुनिबर आयसु दीन्हा। तहँ तस सहस भाँति सबु कीन्हा॥  
> भए बिसुद्ध दिए सब दाना। धेनु बाजि गज बाहन नाना॥४॥

Meaning: He had the king’s body washed in accordance with the Vedic rites and caused a most splendid funeral bier to be prepared for him. Clasping the feet of his mothers, Bharata prevented them (from ascending the funeral pile); they all stayed behind in the hope of seeing Śrī Rāma. (1)

There arrived many loads of sandal-wood and aloes and diverse other excellent aromatic herbs of innumerable varieties. The pile was raised in an artistic way on the bank of the Sarayū river, and looked like a lovely ladder reaching heaven. (2)

In this way all the rites of cremation were gone through and then all bathed observing due rituals and offered a handful of water and sesame seeds to the departed soul. After ascertaining the views of all the Smṛti texts, the Vedas and the Purāṇas, Bharata performed the ceremony of Dasagātra*. (3)

* The ceremony consists in offering to the departed soul a ball of boiled rice on each of the ten days following the cremation of the deceased.

The Hindus believe that the agnates and certain other relations of a deceased remain impure for a number of days and get purified only after the prescribed period is over.

Whatever orders the great sage Vasiṣṭha gave on a particular point, Bharata carried out all of them in a thousand ways. He bestowed all sorts of gifts on attaining purity. He gave away cows, horses, elephants and conveyances of all sorts, (4)

**दो०** 
> सिंघासन भूषन बसन अन्न धरनि धन धाम।  
> दिए भरत लहि भूमिसुर भे परिपूरन काम॥ १७० ॥

Meaning: and, even so, thrones, ornaments and costumes, food grains, land, money and houses; and the Brāhmaṇas had all their desires fulfilled on receiving them. (170)

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