Doha 258
नीकें निरखि नयन भरि सोभा। पितु पनु सुमिरि बहुरि मनु छोभा॥ अहह तात दारुनि हठ ठानी। समुझत नहिं कछु लाभु न हानी॥१॥
सचिव सभय सिख देइ न कोई। बुध समाज बड़ अनुचित होई॥ कहँ धनु कुलिसहु चाहि कठोरा। कहँ स्यामल मृदुगात किसोरा॥ २॥
बिधि केहि भाँति धरौं उर धीरा। सिरस सुमन कन बेधिअ हीरा॥ सकल सभा कै मति भै भोरी। अब मोहि संभुचाप गति तोरी॥३॥
निज जड़ता लोगन्ह पर डारी। होहि हरुअ रघुपतिहि निहारी॥ अति परिताप सीय मन माहीं। लव निमेष जुग सय सम जाहीं॥४॥
Meaning
She feasted Her eyes to their fill on Śrī Rāma’s beauty; but then the thought of Her father’s vow perturbed Her mind. She said to Herself. “Alas, my father has made a terrible resolve having no regard to good or evil consequences. (1) “The ministers are afraid; therefore none of them gives him good counsel. It is all the more a pity that it should be so in a conclave of wise men. While on this side stands the bow harder than adamant, on the other side we find that dark-complexioned prince of delicate frame and tender age. (2) “How then, O god, can I keep my patience? Is a diamond ever pierced with the pointed end of a Śirīsa flower? The sense of the whole assembly has become dull; hence my only hope now lies in you, O Śiva’s bow. (3) “Imparting your heaviness to the assembly, grow light yourself at the sight (in proportion to the tender body) of Śrī Rāma.” Sītā felt much agitated at heart; an instant hung heavy on Her as a hundred Yugas. (4)
प्रभुहि चितइ पुनि चितव महि राजत लोचन लोल। खेलत मनसिज मीन जुग जनु बिधु मंडल डोल॥२५८॥
Meaning
Gazing now at the Lord and now at the ground, Her restless eyes sparkled as if two Cupid’s fish disported themselves in the pail-like orb of the moon. (258)
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