The King Places His Daughter Before Narada
Bala Kanda, Doha 130
Doha 130 · Movement 2 of 2
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The palace settles into attentive quiet as the king brings his daughter before the honoured sage. Jewels and ceremonial cloth frame the meeting, but the father's concern is direct. He wants discernment, not flattery, from the holy visitor seated in his hall.
With reverence, the king asks Narada to examine the princess's qualities and faults within his heart and speak everything he sees. The sage is offered the trusted place of one who reads destiny without personal desire.
Before him stands Hari's Maya in a form designed to meet the exact weakness still concealed. The king waits for an answer, the princess remains within the assembly, and Narada raises his eyes to behold her.
Asked to read the princess without desire, Narada looks upon the beauty fashioned by Hari.
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King presents daughter to Narada and asks sage consider all her qualities and faults
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Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 143 · printed pages 141. Reader passage: bala-kanda-doha-131. Printed numbering may differ.
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- King brings/shows daughter toNarada, asksponderheart allherqualitiesandfaults; selected presentation/request only
- PropernamesShilanidhi/Vishvamohini fromprecedingunit; no unverifiedkinginnocence/privateunwittingmotive assigned
- Narada laterbeauty/desire/markreading notcombined with thissource request
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- Narada seatedplainbench handsownknees, princessstandingnamaste, kingopenpresentationpalm/ownwaisthand, specificgesture/gaze/furniture imagined; creamarchedfloweringpalacecourt/pastoralvista/geography decorativeartchoices notauthsite
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आनि देखाई नारदहि भूपति राजकुमारि। कहहु नाथ गुन दोष सब एहि के हृदयँ बिचारि।।130।।
The king brought his princess before Narada and said: "O Lord, consider her qualities and faults in your heart, and tell me all that you see."