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# Ayodhya Kand · Doha 245

**चौ०** 
> गुरतिय पद बंदे दुहु भाईं। सहित बिप्रतिय जे सँग आईं॥  
> गंग गौरि सम सब सनमानीं। देहिं असीस मुदित मृदु बानीं॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> गहि पद लगे सुमित्रा अंका। जनु भेंटी संपति अति रंका॥  
> पुनि जननी चरननि दोउ भ्राता। परे पेम ब्याकुल सब गाता॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> अति अनुराग अंब उर लाए। नयन सनेह सलिल अन्हवाए॥  
> तेहि अवसर कर हरष बिषादू। किमि कबि कहै मूक जिमि स्वादू॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> मिलि जननिहि सानुज रघुराऊ। गुर सन कहेउ कि धारिअ पाऊ॥  
> पुरजन पाइ मुनीस नियोगू। जल थल तकि तकि उतरेउ लोगू॥४॥

Meaning: The two brothers, Śrī Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa, then adored the feet of their preceptor’s wife, Arundhati, as well as of all those Brāhamaṇa ladies who had accompanied her, paying them all the same honour as is due to the holy Gaṅgā and Goddess Gaurī (Śiva’s Consort); while the ladies gladly blessed them in soft accents. (1)

After clasping Sumitrā’s feet they sought her lap even as an abject pauper would hug a treasure. Both the brothers now fell at the feet of mother Kausalyā, all their limbs overwrought by love. (2)

The mother most fondly clasped them to her bosom and bathed them with tears of affection. How can any poet describe the joy and grief of the occasion any more than a dumb man the taste of what he has eaten. (3)

After meeting their mother, Śrī Raghunātha and His younger brother Lakṣmaṇa requested their Guru to accompany them to their cottage. On receiving the sage’s command, the citizens encamped themselves wherever they saw a suitable site and water close by. (4)

**दो०** 
> महिसुर मंत्री मातु गुर गने लोग लिए साथ।  
> पावन आश्रम गवनु किय भरत लखन रघुनाथ॥२४५॥

Meaning: Taking with them a few chosen people, viz., the Brāhmaṇas, the ministers, the queen-mothers and the preceptor, Bharata, Lakṣmaṇa and Śrī Raghunātha proceeded to the holy hermitage. (245)

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