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राम
Sacred Tableau

The Mountain Adorns Itself

Bala Kanda, Doha 65

Doha 65 · Movement 2 of 2

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The Himalaya changes around the newborn Divine Mother. Trees of countless kinds stand perpetually laden with blossoms and fruit, as though every season has agreed to remain at once.

Across the bright slopes, mines of precious gems reveal themselves within the stone. Colours long hidden in darkness come near the surface and make the mountain gleam from within.

Nature has become a royal household preparing for Parvati. Forest, orchard, and jewel chamber offer their abundance without depletion, adorning the vast body of her father for the life now sheltered there.

Flowers cover the slopes while buried jewels kindle beneath Parvati's mountain home.

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Flowering and fruit-bearing trees surround a quiet mountain stream, with small mineral colours embedded in exposed rock, in the setting after Parvati's birth.

AI-created devotional illustration · Doha 65

Flowering and fruit-bearing trees surround a quiet mountain stream, with small mineral colours embedded in exposed rock, in the setting after Parvati's birth.

Source reference and artistic choices

Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 86 · printed pages 84. Reader passage: bala-kanda-doha-066. Printed numbering may differ.

Source facts

  • Many kinds of fresh trees are always laden with flowers and fruit
  • Varied jewel deposits/mines manifest on the beautiful mountain; adjacent source places this after Parvati's birth

Artistic choices

  • Figure-free mountain abundance landscape, not preparation for a future birth or bridal-chamber imagery
  • Selected representative tree silhouettes, flowers and fruit forms, tiny embedded mineral colours and exposed strata, mountain shapes, stream, plant placements and palette added; no source-named botanical species, gemstones, geology or mining method asserted

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

सदा सुमन फल सहित सब द्रुम नव नाना जाति। प्रगटीं सुंदर सैल पर मनि आकर बहु भाँति।।65।।

Trees of many kinds, ever laden with blossoms and fruit, appeared upon the beautiful mountain. Mines of precious gems of every variety manifested there.