Doha 194
ध्वज पताक तोरन पुर छावा। कहि न जाइ जेहि भाँति बनावा॥ सुमनबृष्टि अकास तें होई। ब्रह्मानंद मगन सब लोई॥१॥
बृंद बृंद मिलि चलीं लोगाईं। सहज सिंगार किएँ उठि धाईं॥ कनक कलस मंगल भरि थारा। गावत पैठहिं भूप दुआरा॥२॥
करि आरति नेवछावरि करहीं। बार बार सिसु चरनन्हि परहीं॥ मागध सूत बंदिगन गायक। पावन गुन गावहिं रघुनायक॥३॥
सर्बस दान दीन्ह सब काहू। जेहिं पावा राखा नहिं ताहू॥ मृगमद चंदन कुंकुम कीचा। मची सकल बीथिन्ह बिच बीचा॥४॥
Meaning
The city was full of flags and banners and festal arches. It was decorated in a way which defies description. Showers of flowers dropped from heaven; everybody was rapt in the joy of absorption into Brahma. (1) Women streamed forth in troops; they came running in their natural adornments. Carrying jars of gold and salvers full of auspicious articles, they entered the portals of the royal palace, singing as they went along. (2) Waving lights and passing offerings round and round over the child’s head as an act of exorcism, they threw themselves at the babe’s feet again and again. Bards, minstrels, panegyrists and songsters chanted solemn praises of the Lord of Raghus. (3) Everyone gave whatever one possessed; even he who received did not retain it. All the lanes of the city were moist with the sprinkling of musk, sandal and saffron. (4)
गृह गृह बाज बधाव सुभ प्रगटे सुषमा कंद। हरषवंत सब जहँ तहँ नगर नारि नर बृंद॥ १९४॥
Meaning
There was happy music and rejoicing in every house; for the very Fountain of beauty, Supreme Brahma, had manifested Himself. All the men and women of the city were full of joy everywhere. (194)
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