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title: "Sunderkand Doha 11"
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# Sunderkand · Doha 11

**चौ०** 
> त्रिजटा नाम राच्छसी एका। राम चरन रति निपुन बिबेका॥  
> सबन्हौ बोलि सुनाएसि सपना। सीतहि सेइ करहु हित अपना॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> सपनें बानर लंका जारी। जातुधान सेना सब मारी॥  
> खर आरूढ़ नगन दससीसा। मुंडित सिर खंडित भुज बीसा॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> एहि बिधि सो दच्छिन दिसि जाई। लंका मनहुँ बिभीषन पाई॥  
> नगर फिरी रघुबीर दोहाई। तब प्रभु सीता बोलि पठाई॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> यह सपना मैं कहउँ पुकारी। होइहि सत्य गएँ दिन चारी॥  
> तासु बचन सुनि ते सब डरीं। जनकसुता के चरनन्हि परीं॥४॥

Meaning: One of these demonesses, Trijaṭā by name, was devoted to Śrī Rāma’s feet and was perfect in dispassionate wisdom. She summoned all her companions, told them of her dream and exhorted them to serve Sītā and thus be blessed: (1)

“In my dream a monkey burnt Laṅkā and the whole demon host was killed. As for the ten-headed Rāvaṇa, I saw him mounted on a donkey, all naked, with his heads shorn and his twenty arms chopped off. (2)

“In this manner he went his way to the south*; and it so appeared that Laṅkā had passed into the hands of Vibhīṣaṇa. Śrī Rāma’s victory was proclaimed (by beat of drum) throughout the city: it was then that the Lord, Śrī Rāma, sent for Sītā. (3)

* The abode of Yama (the god of death) is believed to be in the south. That is why journey in a dream to the south is supposed to forebode death.

“This dream, I loudly proclaim, will come true a few days hence.” They were all dismayed to hear her words and fell at the feet of Jānakī. (4)

**दो०** 
> जहँ तहँ गईं सकल तब सीता कर मन सोच।  
> मास दिवस बीतें मोहि मारिहि निसिचर पोच॥११॥

Meaning: Then they all dispersed in various directions and Sītā anxiously thought within Herself: ‘At the end of a long month this vile monster will slay me.’† (11)

† As appears from what follows, it is not death that Sītā dreads, but the long interval of a month which has to elapse before Her threatened death.

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