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title: "Bal Kand Doha 197"
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# Bal Kand · Doha 197

**चौ०** 
> कछुक दिवस बीते एहि भाँती। जात न जानिअ दिन अरु राती॥  
> नामकरन कर अवसरु जानी। भूप बोलि पठए मुनि ग्यानी॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> करि पूजा भूपति अस भाषा। धरिअ नाम जो मुनि गुनि राखा॥  
> इन्ह के नाम अनेक अनूपा। मैं नृप कहब स्वमति अनुरूपा॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> जो आनंद सिंधु सुखरासी। सीकर तें त्रैलोक सुपासी॥  
> सो सुखधाम राम अस नामा। अखिल लोक दायक बिश्रामा॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> बिस्व भरन पोषन कर जोई। ताकर नाम भरत अस होई॥  
> जाके सुमिरन तें रिपु नासा। नाम सत्रुहन बेद प्रकासा॥४॥

Meaning: A few days rolled by in this manner; days and nights passed unnoticed. Knowing that the time had come for naming the children, the king sent for the enlightened sage, Vasiṣṭha. (1)

After paying him homage, the king spoke to him thus: “Holy sir! Kindly assign them names that you have thought of in your mind.” “Their names are many and unique; yet O king ! I will declare them according to my own understanding. (2)

“This eldest boy of yours, who is an ocean of felicity and embodiment of joy, a particle of which fills the three worlds with delight, has for His name ‘Rāma’, the very abode of bliss and the comforter of all the worlds. (3)

“Your second son, who sustains and supports the universe, will be called ‘Bharata’; while he whose very thought destroys one’s enemies and is celebrated in the Vedas will be known by the name of ‘Satrughna’.” (4)

**दो०** 
> लच्छन धाम राम प्रिय सकल जगत आधार।  
> गुरु बसिष्ट तेहि राखा लछिमन नाम उदार॥१९७॥

Meaning: He who is the abode of noble characteristics, the beloved of Śrī Rāma and the mainstay of the whole universe, was given by Guru Vasiṣṭha the splendid name of ‘Lakṣmaṇa’. (197)

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