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Hearing the news, Nishadaraja Guha joyfully calls his kinsmen, loads baskets of fruit and roots and goes to meet the Lord. He prostrates, lays the gifts down and gazes at Rama with great love. Raghurai seats him close and asks after his welfare. Guha says all is well now that he has seen the Lord's feet; he counts himself fortunate. The land, wealth and home are Rama's; he and his family are humble servants. He begs Rama to grace his town so that everyone will envy him. Rama replies that every word is true, wise friend, but his father has commanded fourteen years in the forest, with a muni's vow, dress and food, so living in a village is not fitting. Guha is weighed down with sorrow.
यह सुधि गुहँ-निषाद जब पाई । मुदित लिये प्रिय-बन्धु बोलाई ॥
लिए फल मूल भेँट भरि भारा । मिलन चलेउ हिय हरष अपारा ॥
yaha sudhi guham̐-niṣāda jaba pāī | mudita liye priya-bandhu bolāī ||
lie phala mūla bhem̐ṭa bhari bhārā | milana caleu hiya haraṣa apārā ||
करि दंडवत भेँट धरि आगें । प्रभुहि बिलोकत अति अनुरागें ॥
सहज-सनेह-बिबस रघुराई । पूछी कुसल निकट बैठाई ॥
kari daṃḍavata bhem̐ṭa dhari āgeṃ | prabhuhi bilokata ati anurāgeṃ ||
sahaja-saneha-bibasa raghurāī | pūchī kusala nikaṭa baiṭhāī ||
नाथ कुसल पद पङ्कज देखें । भयउँ भागभाजन जन लेखें ॥
देव धरनि-धन-धाम तुम्हारा । मैं जन नीच सहित परिवारा ॥
nātha kusala pada paṅkaja dekheṃ | bhayaum̐ bhāgabhājana jana lekheṃ ||
deva dharani-dhana-dhāma tumhārā | maiṃ jana nīca sahita parivārā ||
कृपा करिय पुर धारिअ पाऊ । थापिय जन सब लोग सिहाऊ ॥
कहेहु सत्य सब सखा सुजाना । मोहि दीन्ह पितु आयसु आना ॥
kṛpā kariya pura dhāria pāū | thāpiya jana saba loga sihāū ||
kahehu satya saba sakhā sujānā | mohi dīnha pitu āyasu ānā ||
बरष चारिदस बास बन, मुनि-ब्रत-बेष-अहार ।
ग्राम-बास नहिँ उचित सुनि, गुहहि भयउ दुख-भार ॥
baraṣa cāridasa bāsa bana, muni-brata-beṣa-ahāra |
grāma-bāsa nahim̐ ucita suni, guhahi bhayau dukha-bhāra ||
Text source: Wikisource · Public domain (Tulsidas, 16th c.; 1925 edition, Wikisource PD-1996 tag); transcription CC BY-SA 4.0
