प्रिय परिजनहि मिली बैदेही । जो जेहि जोग भाँति तेहि तेही ॥
तापस बेष जानकी देखी । सा सब बिकल विषाद बिसेखी ॥
priya parijanahi milī baidehī | jo jehi joga bhām̐ti tehi tehī ||
tāpasa beṣa jānakī dekhī | sā saba bikala viṣāda bisekhī ||
Ayodhya Kanda
Chapter 286: Janaka embraces Sita in hermit dress
5 verses · 286 of 326
What happens in this chapter
Janaka embraces Sita in hermit dress
Vaidehi meets her dear kin, each in the fitting way. Seeing Janaki in a tapasvini's dress, they are all stricken with special sorrow. With leave from Rama's guru, Janaka comes to the tent and sees Sita. He holds her to his chest, his daughter, the pure guest of his love and life. An ocean of affection swells in his heart; his mind becomes a Prayag where the banyan of love for Sita has grown, and on it shines the child of love for Rama, as the long-lived sage Markandeya, his knowledge failing, found a child to hold while drowning. Videha's mind is not lost in delusion; this is the greatness of love for Sita and Raghubar. Seeing her parents overcome, the Earth's daughter, weighing time and dharma, holds firm.
जनक राम-गुरु आयसु पाई । चले थलहि सिय देखी आई ॥
लीन्ह लाइ उर जनक जानकी । पाहुन पावन पेम प्रान की ॥
janaka rāma-guru āyasu pāī | cale thalahi siya dekhī āī ||
līnha lāi ura janaka jānakī | pāhuna pāvana pema prāna kī ||
उर उमगेउ अम्बुधि अनुरागू । भयउ भूप मन मनहुँ पयागू ॥
सिय-सनेह बट बाढ़त जोहा । ता पर राम-पेम-सिसु सोहा ॥
ura umageu ambudhi anurāgū | bhayau bhūpa mana manahum̐ payāgū ||
siya-saneha baṭa bār̤hata johā | tā para rāma-pema-sisu sohā ||
चिरजीवी मुनि ज्ञान विकल जनु । बूड़त लहेउ बाल-अवलम्बनु ॥
मोह मगन मति नहिँ बिदेह की । महिमा सिय-रघुबर-सनेह की ॥
cirajīvī muni jñāna vikala janu | būr̤ata laheu bāla-avalambanu ||
moha magana mati nahim̐ bideha kī | mahimā siya-raghubara-saneha kī ||
सिय पितु मातु सनेह बस, बिकल न सकी सँभारि ।
धरनि-सुता धीरज धरेउ, समउ सुधरम बिचारि ॥
siya pitu mātu saneha basa, bikala na sakī sam̐bhāri |
dharani-sutā dhīraja dhareu, samau sudharama bicāri ||
Text source: Wikisource · Public domain (Tulsidas, 16th c.; 1925 edition, Wikisource PD-1996 tag); transcription CC BY-SA 4.0