The Sun of Valour Takes the Throne
Bala Kanda, Doha 153
Doha 153 · Movement 2 of 2
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Pratapbhanu ascends the throne, his very name carrying the brilliance of a sun made from valour. Royal command travels across the land, reaching city, village, field, road, and distant boundary.
Power is bound to sacred measure. The new king protects his people strictly according to Vedic law, placing authority beneath dharma rather than using dharma as ornament for authority.
Under that discipline, sin leaves no visible trace anywhere in the realm. The image is one of complete order before the hidden fall begins, a kingdom bright at noon and a ruler whose strength, legitimacy, and virtue seem beyond disturbance.
Pratapbhanu's command crosses the land, and no shadow of disorder appears beneath it.
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Pratapbhanu's kingship proclaimed throughland and Vedic subject-protection without traceofsin
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Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 161 · printed pages 159. Reader passage: bala-kanda-doha-154. Printed numbering may differ.
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- When PRATAPRAVI(Pratapbhanu) becameKING proclamationwentroundland, protectedsubjects byVEDICMETHOD, no traceSIN anywhere.
- Iconicking'scare selected; notspecified proclamationdocument, coronation, Vedicceremony or laterwars.
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- Approved new imagined elderPratapbhanu C153 curlyblackhair shortblackbeard wheatbrown broadovalface rubygoldcrown creamPLUMshawl retained; exactagefacewardrobe unverified.
- Kindopenlowpalm otherownknee seatedwaistportrait simplecreamarch rustfield smallwhitefloralcorners imaginedpalacesite, no actualspecificsubject encounter.
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जब प्रतापरबि भयउ नृप फिरी दोहाई देस। प्रजा पाल अति बेदबिधि कतहुँ नहीं अघ लेस।।153।।
When Pratapabhanu, the sun of valour, became king, his writ ran throughout the land. He protected his people strictly according to Vedic law; nowhere was there even a trace of sin. (153)