बिबिध भाँति होइहि पहुनाई । प्रिय न काहि अस सासुर माई ॥
तब तब राम लखनहि निहारी । होइहि सब पुर-लोग सुखारी ॥
bibidha bhām̐ti hoihi pahunāī | priya na kāhi asa sāsura māī ||
taba taba rāma lakhanahi nihārī | hoihi saba pura-loga sukhārī ||
Bala Kanda
Chapter 311: Bharata and Shatrughna, and the women's prayer
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Bharata and Shatrughna, and the women's prayer
The women go on: they will be welcomed in many ways, for who does not love such in-laws? Friend, just like the pair of Rama and Lakshmana, two more boys have come with the king, one dark, one fair, lovely in every limb. Bharata looks so like Rama that people cannot tell them apart at first; Lakshmana and Shatrughna are of one form, peerless from head to toe. Tulsidas says no poet can find a likeness for them. Spreading their sari ends, the women pray to Brahma that all four brothers be married in this city. With wet eyes they say: Purari will grant it, for both kings are oceans of merit.
सखि जस राम लखन कर जोटा । तैसेइ भूप सङ्ग दुइ ढोटा ॥
स्याम गौर सब अङ्ग सुहाये । ते सब कहहिं देखि जे आये ॥
sakhi jasa rāma lakhana kara joṭā | taisei bhūpa saṅga dui ḍhoṭā ||
syāma gaura saba aṅga suhāye | te saba kahahiṃ dekhi je āye ||
कहा एक में आजु निहारे । जनु बिरञ्चि निज हाथ सँवारे ॥
भरत रामही की अनुहारी । सहसा लखि न सकहिं नर नारी ॥
kahā eka meṃ āju nihāre | janu birañci nija hātha sam̐vāre ||
bharata rāmahī kī anuhārī | sahasā lakhi na sakahiṃ nara nārī ||
लखन सत्रुसूदनु एकरूपा । नख-सिख ते सब अङ्ग अनूपा ॥
मन भावहिं मुख बरनि न जाहीँ । उपमा कह त्रिभुवन कोउ नाहीं ॥
lakhana satrusūdanu ekarūpā | nakha-sikha te saba aṅga anūpā ||
mana bhāvahiṃ mukha barani na jāhīm̐ | upamā kaha tribhuvana kou nāhīṃ ||
उपमा न कोउ कह दास तुलसी कतहुँ कबि कोबिद कहैं ।
बल-बिनय-विद्या-सील,-सोभा सिन्धु इन्ह सम एइ अहैं ॥
पुर-नारि सकल पसारि अञ्चल, विधिहि बचन सुनावहीं ।
ब्याहिअहुँ चारिउ भाइ एहिं पुर, हम सुमङ्गल गावहीं ॥
upamā na kou kaha dāsa tulasī katahum̐ kabi kobida kahaiṃ |
bala-binaya-vidyā-sīla,-sobhā sindhu inha sama ei ahaiṃ ||
pura-nāri sakala pasāri añcala, vidhihi bacana sunāvahīṃ |
byāhiahum̐ cāriu bhāi ehiṃ pura, hama sumaṅgala gāvahīṃ ||
कहहिँ परसपर नारि, बारि-बिलोचन पुलक-तन ।
सखि सब करब पुरारि, पुन्य पयोनिधि भूप दोउ ॥
kahahim̐ parasapara nāri, bāri-bilocana pulaka-tana |
sakhi saba karaba purāri, punya payonidhi bhūpa dou ||
Text source: Wikisource · Public domain (Tulsidas, 16th c.; 1925 edition, Wikisource PD-1996 tag); transcription CC BY-SA 4.0