Doha 309
रामहि देखि बरात जुड़ानी। प्रीति कि रीति न जाति बखानी॥ नृप समीप सोहहिं सुत चारी। जनु धन धरमादिक तनुधारी॥१॥
सुतन्ह समेत दसरथहि देखी। मुदित नगर नर नारि बिसेषी॥ सुमन बरिसि सुर हनहिं निसाना। नाकनटीं नाचहिं करि गाना॥२॥
सतानंद अरु बिप्र सचिव गन। मागध सूत बिदुष बंदीजन॥ सहित बरात राउ सनमाना। आयसु मागि फिरे अगवाना॥३॥
प्रथम बरात लगन तें आई। तातें पुर प्रमोदु अधिकाई॥ ब्रह्मानंदु लोग सब लहहीं। बढ़हुँ दिवस निसि बिधि सन कहहीं॥४॥
Meaning
The sight of Śrī Rāma was so soothing to the marriage party (from Ayodhyā); the ways of love are beyond description. By the side of the king, his four sons looked like embodiments, as it were, of the four ends of human endeavour, viz., riches, religious merit, etc. (1) The people of the city were delighted beyond measure to see King Daśaratha with his sons. The gods rained down flowers and beat their drums; the nymphs of heaven danced while singing. (2) Śatānanda, King Janaka’s family preceptor, and the other Brāhmaṇas and ministers of State, as well as the genealogists, minstrels, jesters and rhapsodists, who formed the contingent of welcomers, paid due respects and honour to the king and the marriage party and returned taking leave of them. (3) The marriage party had arrived earlier than the day fixed for the wedding; there was great rejoicing in the city on this account. Everyone enjoyed transcendent bliss and prayed to the Creator that the days and nights might be lengthened. (4)
रामु सीय सोभा अवधि सुकृत अवधि दोउ राज। जहँ तहँ पुरजन कहहिं अस मिलि नर नारि समाज॥३०९॥
Meaning
“Rāma and Sītā are the perfection of beauty, and the two kings, Daśaratha and Janaka, are the perfection of virtue!” Thus observed the men and women of the city wherever they happened to meet. (309)
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