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title: "Bal Kand Doha 258"
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# Bal Kand · Doha 258

**चौ०** 
> नीकें निरखि नयन भरि सोभा। पितु पनु सुमिरि बहुरि मनु छोभा॥  
> अहह तात दारुनि हठ ठानी। समुझत नहिं कछु लाभु न हानी॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> सचिव सभय सिख देइ न कोई। बुध समाज बड़ अनुचित होई॥  
> कहँ धनु कुलिसहु चाहि कठोरा। कहँ स्यामल मृदुगात किसोरा॥ २॥

**चौ०** 
> बिधि केहि भाँति धरौं उर धीरा। सिरस सुमन कन बेधिअ हीरा॥  
> सकल सभा कै मति भै भोरी। अब मोहि संभुचाप गति तोरी॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> 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)

**दो०** 
> 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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