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title: "Bal Kand Doha 250"
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# Bal Kand · Doha 250

The princes’ failure to lift the bow and Janaka’s despondent utterance · Lakṣmaṇa’s fulmination

**चौ०** 
> नृप भुजबलु बिधु सिवधनु राहू। गरुअ कठोर बिदित सब काहू॥  
> रावनु बानु महाभट भारे। देखि सरासन गवँहिं सिधारे॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> सोइ पुरारि कोदंडु कठोरा। राज समाज आजु जोइ तोरा॥  
> त्रिभुवन जय समेत बैदेही। बिनहिं बिचार बरइ हठि तेही॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> सुनि पन सकल भूप अभिलाषे। भटमानी अतिसय मन माखे॥  
> परिकर बाँधि उठे अकुलाई। चले इष्टदेवन्ह सिर नाई॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> तमकि ताकि तकि सिवधनु धरहीं। उठइ न कोटि भाँति बलु करहीं॥  
> जिन्ह के कछु बिचारु मन माहीं। चाप समीप महीप न जाहीं॥४॥

Meaning: “The might of arm of the various princes stands as the moon, while Śiva’s bow is the planet Rāhū, as it were; it is massive and unyielding, as is well-known to all. Even the great heroes Rāvaṇa and Bāṇāsura quietly slipped away as soon as they beheld the bow. (1)

“Whoever in this royal assembly breaks today the yonder unbending bow of Śiva, he shall be unhesitatingly and insistently wedded by Jānakī and shall have the glory of victory in all the three worlds.” (2)

Hearing the vow all the princes were filled with longing, while those who prided on their valour felt very indignant. Girding up their loins they rose impatiently and bowing their heads to their chosen deity went ahead. (3)

They cast an arrogant look at Śiva’s bow, grapled with it with steady aim and exerted all their pressure; but the bow refused to be lifted. Those princes, however, who had any sense at all did not even come near the bow. (4)

**दो०** 
> तमकि धरहिं धनु मूढ़ नृप उठइ न चलहिं लजाइ।  
> मनहुँ पाइ भट बाहुबलु अधिकु अधिकु गरुआइ॥२५०॥

Meaning: Those foolish kings indignantly strained at the bow and retired in confusion when they could not even stir it, as though it grew more and more heavy by absorbing the might of arm of each successive warrior. (250)

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