Doha 324
जनक पाटमहिषी जग जानी। सीय मातु किमि जाइ बखानी॥ सुजसु सुकृत सुख सुंदरताई। सब समेटि बिधि रची बनाई॥१॥
समउ जानि मुनिबरन्ह बोलाईं। सुनत सुआसिनि सादर ल्याईं॥ जनक बाम दिसि सोह सुनयना। हिमगिरि संग बनी जनु मयना॥२॥
कनक कलस मनि कोपर रूरे। सुचि सुगंध मंगल जल पूरे॥ निज कर मुदित रायँ अरु रानी। धरे राम के आगें आनी॥३॥
पढ़हिं बेद मुनि मंगल बानी। गगन सुमन झरि अवसरु जानी॥ बरु बिलोकि दंपति अनुरागे। पाय पुनीत पखारन लागे॥४॥
Meaning
What words can describe the world-renowned queen Sunayanā—consort of Janaka and Sītā’s mother? In fashioning her the Creator had gleaned all the bright glory, virtue ( पुण्य ), affluence and elegance and then refined them. (1) Perceiving the appropriate time, the great sages sent for her; and in response to their call married (Suhāgina) women brought her with due honour. Queen Sunayanā shone forth to Janaka’s left even as Menā beside Himācala, the mountain-king. (2) The king and queen joyfully brought and placed with their own hands gold vases filled with holy, scented and auspicious water, and beautiful trays of jewels before Śrī Rāma. (3) The sages recited the Veda in auspicious tones and at the proper time flowers rained down from the heavens. The royal couple was enraptured to behold the bridegroom and began to wash His holy feet. (4)
लागे पखारन पाय पंकज प्रेम तन पुलकावली। नभ नगर गान निसान जय धुनि उमगि जनु चहुँ दिसि चली॥ जे पद सरोज मनोज अरि उर सर सदैव बिराजहीं। जे सकृत सुमिरत बिमलता मन सकल कलि मल भाजहीं॥ १ ॥
जे परसि मुनिबनिता लही गति रही जो पातकमई। मकरंदु जिन्ह को संभु सिर सुचिता अवधि सुर बरनई॥ करि मधुप मन मुनि जोगिजन जे सेइ अभिमत गति लहैं। ते पद पखारत भाग्यभाजनु जनकु जय जय सब कहैं॥ २ ॥
बर कुअँरि करतल जोरि साखोचारु दोउ कुलगुर करैं। भयो पानिगहनु बिलोकि बिधि सुर मनुज मुनि आनँद भरैं॥ सुखमूल दूलहु देखि दंपति पुलक तन हुलस्यो हियो। करि लोक बेद बिधानु कन्यादानु नृपभूषन कियो॥ ३ ॥
हिमवंत जिमि गिरिजा महेसहि हरिहि श्री सागर दई। तिमि जनक रामहि सिय समरपी बिस्व कल कीरति नई॥ क्यों करै बिनय बिदेहु कियो बिदेहु मूरति सावँरीं। करि होमु बिधिवत गाँठि जोरी होन लागीं भावँरीं॥ ४ ॥
Meaning
They began to lave Śrī Rāma’s lotus-feet; their whole bodies were thrilled with emotion. The sounds of singing and kettledrums and shouts of victory in the heavens as well as in the city overflowed, as it were, in all directions. The lotus-feet that ever sparkle in the lake of Śiva’s bosom, by thinking of which even for once the mind gets purified and all the impurities of the Kali age are driven away, (1) by whose touch the sage Gautama’s wife, who was sinful, attained salvation, whose nectar in the form of the river Gaṅgā adorns Śiva’s head and is declared by the gods as the holiest of the holy, and by resorting to which with their bee-like minds, sages and mystics attain the goal of their liking, it is those very feet that the most fortrunate Janaka washed amidst shouts of victory from all corners. (2) Joining the palms of the Bride and the Bridegroom, both the family priests recited the genealogy of the two families; and perceiving that the Bridegroom had accepted the Bride’s hand, Brahmā and the other divinities as well as men and sages were all filled with delight. As the king and queen gazed on the Bridegroom, who was the very fountain of joy, the hair on their bodies stood erect, while their heart was filled with rapture. And having gone through all the rites sanctioned either by the Vedas or by family usage, the glorious King Janaka bestowed his daughter in marriage (कन्यादान) to the Bridegroom. (3) As Himavān gave away Pārvatī to the great Lord Śiva, and the deity presiding over seas bestowed Lakṣmī on Hari, so did Janaka give Sītā to Śrī Rāma and thereby earned fair renown of an unprecedented stature. How would King Videha (Janaka) make any supplication, since that Prince (Śrī Rāma) of swarthy complexion had truly made him ‘Videha’ by making him forget everything about his own self. When oblations had been offered to the sacred fire with due rites, the ends of garments of the Bride and the Bridegroom were tied together (as a token of their indissoluble union) and the couple began to circumambulate the fire. (4)
जय धुनि बंदी बेद धुनि मंगल गान निसान। सुनि हरषहिं बरषहिं बिबुध सुरतरु सुमन सुजान॥ ३२४ ॥
Meaning
At the delightful sound of accomplishment, the praises sung by the bards, the recitation of the Vedic texts, the din of the festal songs and the beat of kettledrums, the wise immortals rejoiced and rained down flowers from the tree of paradise. (324)
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