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Hearing the jingle of bangles, girdle bells and anklets, Shri Rama tells Lakshmana it sounds as if Kamadeva has struck his drum to conquer the world. He turns that way, and his eyes become chakora birds fixed on the moon of Sita's face. They stop blinking, as though King Nimi, who dwells in the eyelids, had shyly left them. He praises her in his heart, though no words come. It is as if Brahma had shown all his craft in her; she makes beauty itself beautiful, a lamp burning in a house of loveliness. Every simile is already stale, says the poet. Then, weighing his own state, Shri Rama speaks to his brother.
कङ्कन किङ्किनि नूपुर धुनि सुनि । कहत लखन सन राम हृदयँ गुनि ॥
मानहुँ मदन दुन्दुभी दीन्ही । मनसा बिस्व बिजय कहँ कीन्ही ॥
kaṅkana kiṅkini nūpura dhuni suni | kahata lakhana sana rāma hṛdayam̐ guni ||
mānahum̐ madana dundubhī dīnhī | manasā bisva bijaya kaham̐ kīnhī ||
अस कहि फिरि चितये तेहि ओरा । सिय मुख ससि भये नयन चकोरा ॥
भये बिलोचन चारु अचञ्चल । मनहुँ सकुचि निमि तजे दिगंचल ॥
asa kahi phiri citaye tehi orā | siya mukha sasi bhaye nayana cakorā ||
bhaye bilocana cāru acañcala | manahum̐ sakuci nimi taje digaṃcala ||
देखि सीय सोभा सुख पावा । हृदयँ सराहत बचन न आवा ॥
जनु बिरज्चि सब निज निपुनाई । बिरचि बिस्व कहँ प्रगटि देखाई ॥
dekhi sīya sobhā sukha pāvā | hṛdayam̐ sarāhata bacana na āvā ||
janu birajci saba nija nipunāī | biraci bisva kaham̐ pragaṭi dekhāī ||
सुन्दरता कहँ सुन्दर करई । छबि-गृह दीप-सिखा जनु बरई ॥
सब उपमा कबि रहे जुठारी । केहिं पटतरौं बिदेहकुमारी ॥
sundaratā kaham̐ sundara karaī | chabi-gṛha dīpa-sikhā janu baraī ||
saba upamā kabi rahe juṭhārī | kehiṃ paṭatarauṃ bidehakumārī ||
सिय सोभा हियँ बरनि प्रभु, आपनि दसा बिचारि ।
बोले सुचि-मन अनुज सन, बचन समय अनुहारि ॥
siya sobhā hiyam̐ barani prabhu, āpani dasā bicāri |
bole suci-mana anuja sana, bacana samaya anuhāri ||
Text source: Wikisource · Public domain (Tulsidas, 16th c.; 1925 edition, Wikisource PD-1996 tag); transcription CC BY-SA 4.0
