कहहु सखी अस को तनुधारी । जो न मोह यह रूप निहारी ॥
कोउ सप्रेम बोली मृदु बानी । जो मैँ सुना सो सुनहु सयानी ॥
kahahu sakhī asa ko tanudhārī | jo na moha yaha rūpa nihārī ||
kou saprema bolī mṛdu bānī | jo maim̐ sunā so sunahu sayānī ||
Bala Kanda
Chapter 221: A woman tells who the princes are
5 verses · 221 of 361
What happens in this chapter
A woman tells who the princes are
Who would not be enchanted by this form, asks one. Another speaks gently with love: wise one, hear what I have heard. These two are Dasharatha's sons. They guarded the yajna of the muni Kaushika and slew the night-walkers on the field of battle. The dark one with lotus eyes, who broke the pride of Maricha and Subahu, is Kausalya's son, the mine of joy, named Rama, bow and arrows in hand. The fair youth walking behind Him with bow and arrows is His younger brother Lakshmana; listen, friend, his mother is Sumitra. Having done the Brahmana's work and freed the muni's wife on the way, the brothers have come to see the bow-yajna. Hearing this, all the women rejoice.
ये दोऊ दसरथ के ढोटा । बाल-मरालन्हि के कल जोटा ॥
मुनि-कौसिक-मख के रखवारे । जिन्ह रन-अजिर निसाचर मारे ॥
ye doū dasaratha ke ḍhoṭā | bāla-marālanhi ke kala joṭā ||
muni-kausika-makha ke rakhavāre | jinha rana-ajira nisācara māre ||
स्याम-गात कल-कञ्ज-बिलोचन । जो मारीच-सुभुज-मद मोचन ॥
कौसल्या-सुत सो सुख-खानी । नाम राम धनु-सायक-पानी ॥
syāma-gāta kala-kañja-bilocana | jo mārīca-subhuja-mada mocana ||
kausalyā-suta so sukha-khānī | nāma rāma dhanu-sāyaka-pānī ||
गौर किसोर बेष बर काछें । कर-सर-चाप राम के पाछें ॥
लछिमन नाम राम लघु भ्राता । सुनु सखि तासु सुमित्रा माता ॥
gaura kisora beṣa bara kācheṃ | kara-sara-cāpa rāma ke pācheṃ ||
lachimana nāma rāma laghu bhrātā | sunu sakhi tāsu sumitrā mātā ||
बिप्र काज करि बन्धु दोउ, मग मुनि-बधू उधारि ।
आये देखन चाप-मख, सुनि हरषीँ सब नारि ॥
bipra kāja kari bandhu dou, maga muni-badhū udhāri |
āye dekhana cāpa-makha, suni haraṣīm̐ saba nāri ||
Text source: Wikisource · Public domain (Tulsidas, 16th c.; 1925 edition, Wikisource PD-1996 tag); transcription CC BY-SA 4.0