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Seeing Shri Rama's form and Sita's beauty, men and women forget to blink. All are anxious but shy to speak, and silently pray to the Creator: take away Janaka's stubbornness and give him a mind like ours, so that he sets aside his vow and gives Sita to Rama. The world will praise it, while holding to his resolve will only burn his heart in the end. Everyone longs for one thing, that the dark groom is Janaki's match. Then Janaka calls the heralds and tells them to announce his vow. They raise their long arms and call out: hear, all you kings, we proclaim the vow of Videha.
राम रूप अरु सिय छबि देखें । नर नारिन्ह परिहरीं निमेखे ॥
सोचहिँ सकल कहत सकुचाहीँ । बिधि सन बिनय करहिँ मन माहीं ॥
rāma rūpa aru siya chabi dekheṃ | nara nārinha pariharīṃ nimekhe ||
socahim̐ sakala kahata sakucāhīm̐ | bidhi sana binaya karahim̐ mana māhīṃ ||
हरु बिधि बेगि जनक जड़ताई । मति हमारि असि देहि सुहाई ॥
बिनु बिचार पन तजि नरनाहु । सीय राम कर करइ बिबाहू ॥
haru bidhi begi janaka jar̤atāī | mati hamāri asi dehi suhāī ||
binu bicāra pana taji naranāhu | sīya rāma kara karai bibāhū ||
जग भल कहिहि भाव सब काहू । हठ कीन्हे अंतहुँ उर दाहू ॥
एहिं लालसाँ मगन सब लोगू । बर साँवरो जानकी जोगू ॥
jaga bhala kahihi bhāva saba kāhū | haṭha kīnhe aṃtahum̐ ura dāhū ||
ehiṃ lālasām̐ magana saba logū | bara sām̐varo jānakī jogū ||
तब बन्दीजन जनक बोलाये । बिरिदावली कहत चलि आये ॥
कह नृप जाइ कहहु पन मोरा । चले भाट हियँ हरष न थोरा ॥
taba bandījana janaka bolāye | biridāvalī kahata cali āye ||
kaha nṛpa jāi kahahu pana morā | cale bhāṭa hiyam̐ haraṣa na thorā ||
बोले बन्दी बचन बर, सुनहु सकल महिपाल ।
पन बिदेह कर कहहिँ हम, भुजा उठाइ बिसाल ॥
bole bandī bacana bara, sunahu sakala mahipāla |
pana bideha kara kahahim̐ hama, bhujā uṭhāi bisāla ||
Text source: Wikisource · Public domain (Tulsidas, 16th c.; 1925 edition, Wikisource PD-1996 tag); transcription CC BY-SA 4.0
