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Terrified, Bhushundi shut his eyes, and when he opened them he was back in Kosalapura. Rama smiled at him, and as the child laughed, the crow went straight into his mouth. Inside the belly, he tells Garuda, he saw multitudes of universes, each stranger than the last. Crores of four-faced Brahmas and of Shivas, Lord of Gauri; countless stars, suns and moons; countless Yamas, mountains, oceans and forests; devas, munis, siddhas, nagas, men and kinnaras, and all four kinds of living beings. What he had never seen or heard, what the mind cannot hold, he saw there; how can it be told? In each universe he stayed a hundred years, and so went on through many cosmic shells.
मूदेउँ नयन त्रसित जब भयउँ । पुनि चितवत कोसलपुर गयऊँ ॥
मोहि बिलोकि राम मुसुकाहीँ । बिहँसत तुरत गयउँ मुख माहीँ ॥
mūdeum̐ nayana trasita jaba bhayaum̐ | puni citavata kosalapura gayaūm̐ ||
mohi biloki rāma musukāhīm̐ | biham̐sata turata gayaum̐ mukha māhīm̐ ||
उदर माँझ सुनु अंडज राया । देखउं बहु ब्रह्मांड निकाया ॥
अति विचित्र तहँ लोक अनेका । रचना अधिक एक ते एका ॥
udara mām̐jha sunu aṃḍaja rāyā | dekhauṃ bahu brahmāṃḍa nikāyā ||
ati vicitra taham̐ loka anekā | racanā adhika eka te ekā ||
कोटिन्ह चतुरानन गौरीसा । अगनित उडुगन रवि रजनीसा ॥
अगनित लोकपाल जम काला । अगनित भूधर भूमि बिसाला ॥
koṭinha caturānana gaurīsā | aganita uḍugana ravi rajanīsā ||
aganita lokapāla jama kālā | aganita bhūdhara bhūmi bisālā ||
सागर सरि सर बिपिन अपारा । नाना भाँति सृष्टि बिस्तारा ॥
सुर मुनि सिद्ध नाग नर किन्नर । चारि प्रकार जीव सचराचर ॥
sāgara sari sara bipina apārā | nānā bhām̐ti sṛṣṭi bistārā ||
sura muni siddha nāga nara kinnara | cāri prakāra jīva sacarācara ||
जो नहिँ देखा नहिँ सुना, जो मनहूँ न समाइ ।
सो सब अद्भुत देखेउँ, बरनि कवनि बिधि जाइ ॥
jo nahim̐ dekhā nahim̐ sunā, jo manahūm̐ na samāi |
so saba adbhuta dekheum̐, barani kavani bidhi jāi ||
एक एक ब्रह्मांड महँ, रहउँ बरष सत एक ।
एहि बिधि देखत फिरउँ मैं, अंड कटाह अनेक ॥
eka eka brahmāṃḍa maham̐, rahaum̐ baraṣa sata eka |
ehi bidhi dekhata phiraum̐ maiṃ, aṃḍa kaṭāha aneka ||
Text source: Wikisource · Public domain (Tulsidas, 16th c.; 1925 edition, Wikisource PD-1996 tag); transcription CC BY-SA 4.0
