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# Bal Kand · Doha 293

**चौ०** 
> सुनि सरोष भृगुनायकु आए। बहुत भाँति तिन्ह आँखि देखाए॥  
> देखि राम बलु निज धनु दीन्हा। करि बहु बिनय गवनु बन कीन्हा॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> राजन रामु अतुलबल जैसें। तेज निधान लखनु पुनि तैसें॥  
> कंपहिं भूप बिलोकत जाकें। जिमि गज हरि किसोर के ताकें॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> देव देखि तव बालक दोऊ। अब न आँखि तर आवत कोऊ॥  
> दूत बचन रचना प्रिय लागी। प्रेम प्रताप बीर रस पागी॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> सभा समेत राउ अनुरागे। दूतन्ह देन निछावरि लागे॥  
> कहि अनीति ते मूदहिं काना। धरमु बिचारि सबहिं सुखु माना॥४॥

Meaning: “Hearing the news Paraśurāma came in a fury and indulged in much brow-beating. But seeing Śrī Rāma’s strength he handed his bow to Him and after much supplication withdrew to the woods. (1)

“Even as Śrī Rāma, O king, is unequalled in strength, Lakṣmaṇa too is a mine of glory, at whose very sight the kings trembled as elephants at the gaze of a young lion. (2)

“Now that we have seen your two sons, my lord, no one catches our eye any more.” The messengers’ (eloquent) speech, which was full of love, glorifying and expressive of the heroic sentiment, enchanted all. (3)

The king and his whole court were overwhelmed with emotion and began to offer lavish gifts to the messengers. They, however, closed their ears in protest saying, “This is unfair!” Everyone was delighted at their sense of propriety.* (4)

* In India not only the blood relations but even servants and co-villagers of a bride consider it sinful to accept even food or water, much less any gift or present, from the house of the bridegroom; for it is customary in this country to give the hand of a girl as a sacred gift and one is naturally reluctant to accept anything in return from him on whom a gift is made. This kind of sentiment prevails even in those cases where a marriage alliance has only been stipulated and not yet brought into actual effect. The messengers, in the above context, are actuated with a similar sentiment in refusing the gifts offered to them by King Daśaratha, who happened to be the father of the hero who had won the hand of Princess Jānakī, their master’s daughter.

**दो०** 
> तब उठि भूप बसिष्ट कहुँ दीन्हि पत्रिका जाइ।  
> कथा सुनाई गुरहि सब सादर दूत बोलाइ॥२९३॥

Meaning: The king then rose and going to Vasiṣṭha gave the letter to him, and sending for the messengers with due courtesy, related the whole event to his preceptor. (293)

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