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Sita Comes to Worship Girija

Bala Kanda, Chaupai 225

Doha 228 · Movement 1 of 2

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Ram and Lakshmana ask the gardeners and begin gathering flower petals with joyful attention. At that same moment Sita enters, sent by her mother to worship Girija, surrounded by wise and beautiful companions singing enchanting songs.

Near the lake stands Gauri's temple, captivating beyond description. Sita bathes with her friends, enters the shrine with joy, and worships deeply, asking for a beautiful husband suited to her nature.

One companion wanders from the group to see the flower garden. There she discovers the dark and fair brothers. Love overwhelms her at the sight, and she hurries back toward Sita carrying wonder her body cannot hide.

Sita asks Girija for her destined husband while Ram gathers flowers only a garden away.

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After asking the gardeners, the brothers joyfully gather leaves and flowers; Rama is shown picking a leaf beside his flower-filled leaf bowl.

AI-created devotional illustration · Chaupai 225

All8 C225 source couplets on225226 read; selected gathering leaves+wholeflowers. Adjoining230 garden appearance supplies head/bowl details with explicit artistic application-time limits.

Source reference and artistic choices

Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 225, 226, 230 · printed pages 223, 224, 228. Reader passage: bala-kanda-chaupai-225. Printed numbering may differ.

Source facts

  • Both brothers LOOK ALL AROUND, ASK GARDENERS, and joyfully TAKE LEAVES AND FLOWERS; leaves/flowers distinct, not flowerpetals alone. Exact gardener reply/gesture unverified, no invented permission quote.
  • At that opportunity SITA arrives, MOTHER has SENT her to WORSHIP GIRIJA/PARVATI. Her beautiful wise companions SING LOVELY SONGS. By LAKE the lovely GIRIJA SHRINE delights beyond description.
  • SITA BATHES with companions then goes joyfully to GAURI'S shrine, WORSHIPS with greatLOVE and asks a BEAUTIFUL HUSBAND SUITABLE TO HERSELF.
  • ONE COMPANION leaves Sita's company to see FLOWERBOWER, beholds BOTH BROTHERS and returns NEAR SITA OVERWHELMED BY LOVE. Selected gathering only; Sita/shrine/companions/otherbrother/gardeners offcrop not denied, all8 sourceunits retained.

Artistic choices

  • Retain C216 current youthful Rama bluegrey brown eyes black shoulder curls creamgold foldedfabriccap separatewhiteU/redcenter-detail yellowcreamgold drape/dhoti pearlgreenredstone necklace goldhoops. Age15 artist not biography;3cream armstripes/tinyredgeometry/capcorner visibility sourceunspecified artist.
  • From direct adjoining230 garden appearance add ONE peacockfeather smallwhitepinkbudcluster atcap and LEAFBOWL in LEFT HAND. Exact head-decoration time in earlier gathering scene/capembedding/count/arrangement artistic extrapolation, not authenticated dressing chronology. Original established faces/clothcaps retained, no royalmetalcrown.
  • Actual onehead twoconnected ownarms two distinct ownhands: OWN RIGHT hand pinches GREENLEAF on LEFT floweringbough with natural wrist/fingers; OWN LEFT hand supports folded GREEN LEAFBOWL containing WHOLE WHITEPINK FLOWERS plus separateGREENLEAFBLADES showing among flowers, not only leafcontainer/loosepetals. Lowerlegsfeet/gear cropped notdeclaredabsent.
  • E10 broadmatte warmcreamochre field plainlowcreamgardenwall distantfoliage floweringwhitepinkbough. Exact plant/leaf/flower species bowlconstruction/counts/place/time/pose/costume artistic, actual asking/gatheringjoy source retained but no audible/censuscertificate.

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

चहुँ दिसि चितइ पूँछि मालिगन। लगे लेन दल फूल मुदित मन।। तेहि अवसर सीता तहँ आई। गिरिजा पूजन जननि पठाई।। संग सखीं सब सुभग सयानी। गावहिं गीत मनोहर बानी।। सर समीप गिरिजा गृह सोहा। बरनि न जाइ देखि मनु मोहा।। मज्जनु करि सर सखिन्ह समेता। गई मुदित मन गौरि निकेता।। पूजा कीन्हि अधिक अनुरागा। निज अनुरूप सुभग बरु मागा।। एक सखी सिय संगु बिहाई। गई रही देखन फुलवाई।। तेहि दोउ बंधु बिलोके जाई। प्रेम बिबस सीता पहिं आई।।

Looking in all four directions and asking the gardeners, with happy hearts they began picking leaves and flowers. At that very moment, Sita arrived there. Her mother had sent her to worship Girija (Parvati) at the temple within the garden.