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Dasharatha Carries His Joy to Vasishtha

Ayodhya Kanda, Doha 2

Doha 2 · Movement 2 of 2

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The counsel of white hair becomes resolve within Dasharatha's heart. He considers the day, the hour, and the sacred order required for a decision that will shape Ayodhya after him.

Then the king goes to Vasishtha. Love thrills through his aging body and joy fills his mind as he approaches the guru before whom royal intention must become dharmic action.

Dasharatha lays his wish before the sage. He does not announce the coronation as accomplished or use affection as authority. The crown remains within the chamber of counsel until wisdom blesses it. A father's delight bows before the lineage that guards the kingdom's deeper law.

With joy trembling through him, Dasharatha places Ram's crown first at the feet of the guru.

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Dasharatha speaks joyfully toward Guru Vasishtha outside the frame, with one hand at his heart and one low open palm.

AI-created devotional illustration · Doha 2

Dasharatha joyfully reports crown-prince thought to his Guru after going to him on an auspicious day/opportunity.

Source reference and artistic choices

Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 347 · printed pages 345. Reader passage: ayodhya-kanda-doha-003. Printed numbering may differ.

Source facts

  • King brings this crown-prince thought into his heart, finds a good auspicious day and suitable opportunity.
  • His body thrills with love and his mind is joyful; he goes and tells his Guru, contextually Vasishtha.
  • Source printedDoha2, stableDoha003 retained. No actual performed coronation is narrated, no unnecessary speed/urgent same-hour appointment asserted.
  • Foreign paired metred/Hindi layers describe Rama beyond Vedas hearing tribal people; excluded from artwork facts while original fields remain unchanged.

Artistic choices

  • Exact solo waist-up reporting gesture, mouth/gaze, pavilion and flowers are imaginative staging. Guru outside frame remains addressed source agent.
  • Current elder king's gray-white curls/beard, round ruby crown, clothes and jewels are approved art conventions, not an authenticated historical portrait.
  • Complete source facts retained in metadata; source and existing translations unchanged.
  • Actual seated royal chair, garden pavilion/pond, floral arch and low open-palm reporting gesture are imagined. Guru remains addressed off-frame agent, no claim only king exists.

An imaginative interpretation, not a historical portrait or documentary evidence.

यह बिचारु उर आनि नृप सुदिनु सुअवसरु पाइ। प्रेम पुलकि तन मुदित मन गुरहि सुनायउ जाइ।।2।।

Bringing this resolve into his heart, and finding an auspicious day and a fitting moment, the king went to the guru. His body was thrilling with love, his mind brimming with joy, and he laid his wish before Vasishtha.