Doha 286
प्रिय परिजनहि मिली बैदेही। जो जेहि जोगु भाँति तेहि तेही॥ तापस बेष जानकी देखी। भा सबु बिकल बिषाद बिसेषी॥१॥
जनक राम गुर आयसु पाई। चले थलहि सिय देखी आई॥ लीन्हि लाइ उर जनक जानकी। पाहुनि पावन पेम प्रान की॥२॥
उर उमगेउ अंबुधि अनुरागू। भयउ भूप मनु मनहुँ पयागू॥ सिय सनेह बटु बाढ़त जोहा। ता पर राम पेम सिसु सोहा॥३॥
चिरजीवी मुनि ग्यान बिकल जनु। बूड़त लहेउ बाल अवलंबनु॥ मोह मगन मति नहिं बिदेह की। महिमा सिय रघुबर सनेह की॥४॥
Meaning
Jānakī greeted Her dear kinsfolk in the same manner as was befitting in each case. When they saw Jānakī in the robes of an ascetic, everybody was stricken with deep sorrow. (1) Receiving the permission of Śrī Rāma’s preceptor, Vasiṣṭha, King Janaka too left for his camp and on arrival found Sītā there. The king clasped Jānakī to his bosom—Jānakī, who was an embodiment of his pure love and life. (2) In his heart welled up an ocean of love and the king’s heart now appeared like the holy Prayāga. The immortal banyan tree in the shape of affection for Sītā was seen growing with the divine babe of love for Śrī Rāma adorning its top. (3) The long-lived sage Mārkaṇḍeya* in the shape of King Janaka’s wisdom, was greatly bewildered and was just going to be drowned when lo! he found his support in the divine babe and was saved. Really speaking, it was not that Videha’s wit was lost in infatuation; it was the triumph of the affection he bore for Sītā and Śrī Rāma. (4) * The story of Mārkaṇḍeya has been told at length in Śrīmad Bhāgavata (XII.8-l0). He is celebrated for his longevity (which will continue till the end of this Kalpa), which has earned for him the title of ‘Cirajīvī’. Won over by his austerities and devotion Bhagavān Nārāyaṇa appeared in person before him and offered to grant him a boon. The sage, however requested that he might be allowed to witness the glory of His Māyā. The Lord disappeared, assuring the sage that his prayer would be granted: One evening, while the sage was engaged in his devotion on the bank of the Puṣpabhadra river, it began to rain in torrents The oceans out stepped their limits and deluged the earth as well as the heavens. Even though he was an enlightened soul, the sage was much confused and alarmed; and tossed about by the furious waves and blasting winds he drifted along like a blind man for a long time. At last he espied a small island on which stood a young banyan tree. On the tree itself he saw, lying in a bowl of leaves, a most charming babe of dark hue, holding in both of its tiny hands one of its great toes and sucking it. The sage was enraptured to behold this extraordinary babe and at its very sight all his fatigue and pain disappeared. As the sage tried to approach the babe he was drawn by the breath of its nostrils into its stomach and saw the whole universe contained therein. After wandering there for a long time he was expelled from the stomach with the breath and found himself once more in the endless ocean with the banyan tree and the beautiful babe still before his eyes. The sage made one more attempt to approach the babe, when lo! the babe disappeared and the great deluge also vanished out of sight.
सिय पितु मातु सनेह बस बिकल न सकी सँभारि। धरनिसुताँ धीरजु धरेउ समउ सुधरमु बिचारि॥२८६॥
Meaning
Overcome by the affection of Her parents Sītā was too deeply moved to control Herself. But realizing the delicacy of the time and Her noble duty, Earth’s Daughter Sītā recovered Herself. (286)
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