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# Ayodhya Kand · Doha 251

**चौ०** 
> तुम्ह प्रिय पाहुने बन पगु धारे। सेवा जोगु न भाग हमारे॥  
> देब काह हम तुम्हहि गोसाँई। ईंधनु पात किरात मिताई॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> यह हमारि अति बड़ि सेवकाई। लेहिं न बासन बसन चोराई॥  
> हम जड़ जीव जीव गन घाती। कुटिल कुचाली कुमति कुजाती॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> पाप करत निसि बासर जाहीं। नहिं पट कटि नहिं पेट अघाहीं॥  
> सपनेहुँ धरमबुद्धि कस काऊ। यह रघुनंदन दरस प्रभाऊ॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> जब तें प्रभु पद पदुम निहारे। मिटे दुसह दुख दोष हमारे॥  
> बचन सुनत पुरजन अनुरागे। तिन्ह के भाग सराहन लागे॥४॥

Meaning: “You have come to this forest as our welcome guests; but we are not lucky enough to be fit for any service to you. After all what can we offer you, noble Sir? Fuel and leaves are the only tokens of a Kirāta’s friendship. (1)

“And our great service is that we do not steal and remove your utensils and clothes. We are insensitive creatures taking others’ life, and are crooked by nature, wicked, evil-minded and lowborn. (2)

“Our days and nights are spent in sinful pursuits and yet we have no cloth to cover our loins and do not get food enough to fill our stomach. How could we possibly have ever dreamt of entertaining pious sentiments but for the virtue of having seen Śrī Raghunātha?(3)

“Ever since we have had the good fortune of gazing on our Lord’s lotus feet, our terrible woes and evils have disappeared.” The citizens were overwhelmed with emotion to hear these words and began to extol the good fortune of the foresters. (4)

**छं०** 
> लागे सराहन भाग सब अनुराग बचन सुनावहीं।  
> बोलनि मिलनि सिय राम चरन सनेहु लखि सुखु पावहीं॥  
> नर नारि निदरहिं नेहु निज सुनि कोल भिल्लनि की गिरा।  
> तुलसी कृपा रघुबंसमनि की लोह लै लौका तिरा॥

Meaning: All began to extol the good fortune of the foresters and addressed them in terms of endearment. Every one rejoiced to hear their talk and behold their polite manners as well as their devotion to the feet of Sītā and Śrī Rāma. Men and women deprecated their own love when they heard the talk of the Kolas and Bhīlas. It was through the grace of Śrī Rāma, the Jewel of Raghus, says Tulasīdāsa, that a block of iron floated with a boat loaded on it.*

* Evidently the people of Ayodhyā, who were all deeply attached to Śrī Rāma and were highly virtuous souls, are here likened to a boat inasmuch as they were fit to carry any number of people through the ocean of metempsychosis to the feet of Śrī Rāma by their devotion. The Kolas and Bhīlas, on the other hand, who represented the lowest strata of society and were low by birth as well as by conduct, are compared to a block of iron which cannot even float, much less carry any other weight on it. Through the grace of Śrī Rāma, however, the foresters put to shame the people of Ayodhyā by their artless devotion to Śrī Rāma and hence the metaphorical statement that a block of iron floated with a boat placed on it.

**सो०** 
> बिहरहिं बन चहु ओर प्रतिदिन प्रमुदित लोग सब।  
> जल ज्यों दादुर मोर भए पीन पावस प्रथम॥२५१॥

Meaning: Day after day all the people roamed through every quarter of the forest in great delight even like frogs and peacocks reinvigorated by the first shower of the rains. (251)

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