Ayodhya Kanda

Chapter 111: Rama embraces the ascetic; Guha sent home

5 verses · 111 of 326

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Rama embraces the ascetic; Guha sent home

Thrilling with love, Rama clasps the ascetic to his heart, like a pauper finding the philosopher's stone; all say it is as if love and the highest truth had taken bodies and met. Lakshmana lifts him lovingly from his feet. Next he places the dust of Sita's feet on his head, and she, as a mother, blesses him as her child. The Nishada prostrates to him, and he embraces Guha gladly, seeing him a lover of Rama. With the cups of his eyes he drinks the nectar of Rama's beauty, like a hungry man given good food. Then Raghubira gives his friend Guha much counsel, and Guha, taking Rama's command on his head, returns home.

111.1

राम सप्रेम पुलकि उर लावा । परम रङ्क जनु पारस पावा ॥
मनहुँ प्रेम परमारथ दोऊ । मिलत धरे तन कह सब कोऊ ॥

rāma saprema pulaki ura lāvā | parama raṅka janu pārasa pāvā ||
manahum̐ prema paramāratha doū | milata dhare tana kaha saba koū ||

111.2

बहुरि लखन पायन्ह सोइ लागा । लीन्ह उठाइ उमगि अनुरागा ॥
पुनि सिय-चरन-धूरि धरि सीसा । जननि जानि सिसु दीन्हि असीसा ॥

bahuri lakhana pāyanha soi lāgā | līnha uṭhāi umagi anurāgā ||
puni siya-carana-dhūri dhari sīsā | janani jāni sisu dīnhi asīsā ||

111.3

कीन्ह निषाद दंडवत तेही । मिलेउ मुदित लखि राम-सनेही ॥
पिअत नयन-पुट रूप-पियूखा । मुदित सुअसन पाइ जिमि भूखा ॥

kīnha niṣāda daṃḍavata tehī | mileu mudita lakhi rāma-sanehī ||
piata nayana-puṭa rūpa-piyūkhā | mudita suasana pāi jimi bhūkhā ||

111.4

ते पितु मातु कहहु सखि कैसे । जिन्ह पठये बन बालक ऐसे ॥
राम-लखन-सिय रूप निहारी । होहिं सनेह बिकल नर-नारी ॥

te pitu mātu kahahu sakhi kaise | jinha paṭhaye bana bālaka aise ||
rāma-lakhana-siya rūpa nihārī | hohiṃ saneha bikala nara-nārī ||

दो॰ 111Doha

तब रघुबीर अनेक विधि, सखहि सिखावन दीन्ह ।
राम-रजायसु सीस धरि, भवन गवन तेंइँ कीन्ह ॥

taba raghubīra aneka vidhi, sakhahi sikhāvana dīnha |
rāma-rajāyasu sīsa dhari, bhavana gavana teṃim̐ kīnha ||

Text source: Wikisource · Public domain (Tulsidas, 16th c.; 1925 edition, Wikisource PD-1996 tag); transcription CC BY-SA 4.0