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Every Command of Vasishtha Becomes Immediate Duty

Ayodhya Kanda, Doha 5

Doha 5 · Movement 2 of 2

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Dasharatha gives the ministers a single governing instruction. Whatever Vasishtha orders for Ram's royal consecration must be carried out at once.

No command is to be neglected, delayed, or reduced. The king places preparation beneath the guru's complete ritual and ethical authority.

Thus Ayodhya's immense machinery of celebration receives one clear centre. Craftsmen, priests, stable keepers, treasurers, decorators, cooks, and heralds will move in many directions, but every task will remain joined to sacred counsel. Nothing is left to guesswork or private preference. Administrative speed and spiritual obedience become one gesture in service of Ram.

A thousand preparations begin from one command: let the guru's word be fulfilled without delay.

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Dasharatha gives a purposeful open-palm instruction to attendants outside the frame to follow Vasishtha's preparations for Rama's anointing.

AI-created devotional illustration · Doha 5

King's instruction toward off-frame servants/council to perform every chief-sage order promptly, before any anointing enacted.

Source reference and artistic choices

Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 350 · printed pages 348. Reader passage: ayodhya-kanda-doha-006. Printed numbering may differ.

Source facts

  • King says: for Rama's royal anointing, promptly do EACH AND EVERY thing the chief sage orders.
  • The chief sage is contextually Vasishtha; source is King's instruction, not Guru's current reply or an already completed coronation.
  • Source printedDoha5, stableDoha006 retained. No original-layer discrepancy finding at this locus in existing primary batch; no claim full cross-edition certification.

Artistic choices

  • Standing upper-hip crop, exact chest/open-palm hands, purposeful expression, approved elder royal appearance and palace entry/bough are art staging.
  • All off-frame addressed agents retained, no actual completed coronation, source list/letter or precise material inventory illustrated.
  • Complete source facts retained in metadata; source and existing translations unchanged.
  • Actual standing crop, arched palace entry/garden and palm/chest hand direction are stage choices; off-frame servants/council remain addressed agents.

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

कहेउ भूप मुनिराज कर जोइ जोइ आयसु होइ। राम राज अभिषेक हित बेगि करहु सोइ सोइ।।5।।

The king commanded: 'Whatever orders the great sage Vasishtha gives for Rama's royal consecration, carry them out at once, every one of them.'