Narada Arrives with the Seven Sages
Bala Kanda, Doha 97
Doha 97 · Movement 3 of 3
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At the height of the palace sorrow, word reaches Narada. He comes at once to the house of the snow mountain, accompanied by the seven great sages.
Eight figures enter a household divided between celestial celebration outside and maternal grief within. Their arrival carries the missing knowledge by which appearance will be understood.
The same Narada whom Maina blamed now stands ready to reveal who her daughter and future son-in-law have always been. The room quiets as the travelling sage prepares to speak. The secret is ready to emerge.
Narada crosses the threshold, and the secret history of the bride enters behind him.
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AI-created devotional illustration · Doha 97
Himavan going home with Narada and seven sages
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Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 114 · printed pages 112. Reader passage: bala-kanda-doha-098. Printed numbering may differ.
Source facts
- Hearing news, Tuhinagiri/Himavan goes immediately home accompanied by Narada and seven sages
- Himavan is grammatical subject; witness Hindi explicit, not Narada sole hearer/leader
Artistic choices
- Himavan leads toward home entrance, Narada follows with carried inactive vina, two representative sages white/dark beards behind; five of source seven outside crop
- Approved imaginative identities reused; exact ages/faces/robes/diadem/hands/steps/group spacing/vina prop/doorway/bough/terrace/path/mountains imagined unauthenticated; no cosmic-witness metaphor literalized
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तेहि अवसर नारद सहित अरु रिषि सप्त समेत। समाचार सुनि तुहिनगिरि गवने तुरत निकेत।।97।।
At that very moment, hearing the news, Narada arrived at once at the home of Himavan, accompanied by the seven great rishis.