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title: "Bal Kand Doha 130"
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# Bal Kand · Doha 130

**चौ०** 
> बसहिं नगर सुंदर नर नारी। जनु बहु मनसिज रति तनुधारी॥  
> तेहिं पुर बसइ सीलनिधि राजा। अगनित हय गय सेन समाजा॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> सत सुरेस सम बिभव बिलासा। रूप तेज बल नीति निवासा॥  
> बिस्वमोहनी तासु कुमारी। श्री बिमोह जिसु रूपु निहारी॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> सोइ हरिमाया सब गुन खानी। सोभा तासु कि जाइ बखानी॥  
> करइ स्वयंबर सो नृपबाला। आए तहँ अगनित महिपाला॥ ३ ॥

**चौ०** 
> मुनि कौतुकी नगर तेहिं गयऊ। पुरबासिन्ह सब पूछत भयऊ॥  
> सुनि सब चरित भूपगृहँ आए। करि पूजा नृप मुनि बैठाए॥४॥

Meaning: It was inhabited by graceful men and women, whom one would take to be so many incarnations of the god of love and his wife, Rati. A king, Śīlanidhi by name, ruled over that city; he owned innumerable horses, elephants and troops of army. (1)

He possessed the grandeur and luxury of a hundred Indras, and was a repository of grace, splendour, might and wisdom. He had a daughter, Viśvamohinī by name, whose beauty enraptured even Lakṣmī. (2)

She was no other than the fountainhead of all virtues, Śrī Hari’s own Māyā (enrapturing potency); who can describe her charm? The princess was going to marry by self-selection of the bridegroom (स्वयंवर); hence innumerable kings had arrived there as suitors. (3)

The sportive sage Nārada entered the city and inquired everything from the people. Hearing all that had been going on there, he wended his way to the king’s palace. The king paid him homage and gave him an honourable seat. (4)

**दो०** 
> आनि देखाई नारदहि भूपति राजकुमारि।  
> कहहु नाथ गुन दोष सब एहि के हृदयँ बिचारि॥१३०॥

Meaning: The king brought and showed the princess to Nārada and said, “Reverend Sir! Tell me after careful consideration all that is good or bad about her.” (130)

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