Lakshmana Arrives within Ram's Thought of Brotherhood
Ayodhya Kanda, Doha 10
Doha 10 · Movement 2 of 2
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At the very moment Ram reflects upon the brothers' shared life, Lakshmana arrives. Love has already absorbed him before any word is spoken.
Ram, moon to the night blooming lotus of Raghu's line, receives him with honour and tender welcome. The brother whose exclusion troubled Ram's heart appears directly before him.
The brief meeting makes inward affection visible. Coronation preparations fill the city, but within Ram's chamber the central movement is one brother rising to receive another. Sovereignty begins here as tenderness that notices who might stand outside the offered glory and draws him near.
As Lakshmana enters, Ram's concern for brotherhood takes beloved form before him.
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Lakshmana arrives immersed in love and joy; Rama honors him with affectionate words.
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Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 354 · printed pages 352. Reader passage: ayodhya-kanda-doha-011. Printed numbering may differ.
Source facts
- Lakshmana arrives at that moment absorbed in love and joy; no forest-dwellers bearing loads of fruits/flowers are the actors.
- Rama, poetically the moon to the lotus-like Raghu lineage, honors Lakshmana with dear words. The moon/lotus expression is a comparison, not a literal moon or botanical body.
- Printed doha10 and stable reader doha011 remain distinct. Displaced coupled English/Hindi layers remain unresolved with no corpus alteration.
Artistic choices
- Exact paired standing portrait, welcome palm/chest/waist gestures, expressions and pale palace entrance are art staging; inherited proper brother appearances and distinct garlands retained.
- Complete source facts retained in metadata; source and existing translations unchanged.
- Actual welcome palm, chest/waist hands, warm expressions, standing crop and pale floral palace garden/pond are art staging, not a literal temporal travel/coronation certificate.
An imaginative interpretation, not a historical portrait or documentary evidence.
तेहि अवसर आए लखन मगन प्रेम आनंद। सनमाने प्रिय बचन कहि रघुकुल कैरव चंद।।10।।
At that very moment, Lakshmana arrived, immersed in the bliss of love. Rama, the moon to the night-blooming lotus of the Raghu dynasty, honoured him and spoke tender words of welcome. (Doha 10)