From Amaravati to Ayodhya
Bala Kanda, Doha 151
Doha 151 · Movement 2 of 2
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The Lord sends the beloved couple first toward Amaravati. For a time they will enjoy the abundant pleasures of Indra's celestial city, not as the end of their tapasya but as one station within the promise.
Beyond heaven waits another kingship. Manu will become ruler of Ayodhya, the earthly city where the longing of Naimisha will ripen inside palace walls and royal lineage.
There the Lord will be born as his son. The route from forest austerity to divine parenthood passes through heaven and returns to earth. Ayodhya becomes the place where a boon granted beyond time enters human history.
Past the splendour of Amaravati, Ayodhya waits for the promised child.
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Current Lord speaks future pleasures, Ayodhya kingship and becoming Manu's son
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Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 160 · printed pages 158. Reader passage: bala-kanda-doha-152. Printed numbering may differ.
Source facts
- Source soratha151 under stable readerdoha152: there enjoy great pleasures, Father; after some time passes become Ayodhya's king, then I will be your son.
- Future speech only; no current rulewell-until-time-ends, travel, enthronement or infant. Witness गएँ vs snapshotगउँ unresolved.
Artistic choices
- Approved current manifested Rama bluebody crown darkcurls yellow robes garland fromC151 retained; exact face age wardrobe ornaments unverified.
- Own chest and open lowpalm speaking pose, imagined foresthermitage river hills floralbough; off-frame Manu.
An imaginative interpretation, not a historical portrait or documentary evidence.
तहँ करि भोग बिसाल तात गउँ कछु काल पुनि। होइहहु अवध भुआल तब मैं होब तुम्हार सुत।।151।।
"Enjoy great pleasures there, dear one, for some time. Then you shall become the king of Ayodhya, and I shall be born as your son." (151)