Sita's Companions Forget Themselves
Bala Kanda, Doha 233
Doha 233 · Movement 2 of 2
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The ornament of the solar dynasty stands with a lion's slender waist beneath yellow silk, a treasury of grace, gentleness, and virtue embodied in youthful form.
Sita's companions look upon Ram and lose awareness of themselves. Their role as guides, observers, and protectors of the princess falls away before direct sight.
For a moment no one remembers what should be said or where they were going. Beauty has not merely pleased them. It has removed the one who measures beauty, leaving only the radiant form and the joy in which it is seen.
Before Ram in yellow silk, Sita's companions forget even the eyes with which they gaze.
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Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 230 · printed pages 228. Reader passage: bala-kanda-doha-234. Printed numbering may differ.
Source facts
- Full source doha233: Rama has a LIONLIKE WAIST, wears YELLOW CLOTH, and is treasury of BEAUTY AND VIRTUE/GOOD CONDUCT; adornment of solar line. COMPANIONS SEE HIM AND FORGET THEMSELVES in absorption. Simile not literal lion, fainting, hypnosis or unconsciousness; silk not source specified.
- Direct adjoining primary230 garden appearance has head PEACOCK FEATHERS and FLOWERBUD CLUSTERS, tilaks, jewel necklaces and flower-filled LEFT LEAFBOWLS; counts and cap embedding artist.
- Selected Rama and one anonymous absorbed companion; others/Sita/Lakshmana offcrop not denied. No full group census or subjective-state biological certificate.
Artistic choices
- Actual Rama LEFT bluegrey currentD233 face/curls foldedcreamgold clothcap WHITEUredcenter/detail onepeacockfeather whitepinkbudclusters, BOTH yellowcreamgold garment/gempearls goldhoops. Normal lean waist cinched yellowcloth, ownRIGHTchesthand ownLEFTgreenleafbowl wholeflowers; no silk claim/literal lion.
- Anonymous ADULT companion RIGHT mediumbrownovalface blacksidepartlowhair browneyes coralorangegold sari coveredblouse veil pearlstrand goldhoops redbindi D229 artistportrait reuse; no whiteearflower, not Sita/Ahalya/queen or historicalsamewindowwoman certificate. Ownchest/coveredwaist hands, absorbed joyfuladmiration not fainting/hypnosis/courtship/directdialogue.
- Actual 2heads4connectedownarms4distincthands; lowerlegsfeetgear outcrop not absent. E03 creamgold gardenarch jeweledglass/leadwork floralframe; architecture/counts/poses/gazedirection artist. Rama gentlyRIGHT beyondcompanion towards Sitaoffcrop artistic.
An imaginative interpretation, not a historical portrait or documentary evidence.
केहरि कटि पट पीत धर सुषमा सील निधान। देखि भानुकुलभूषनहि बिसरा सखिन्ह अपान।।233।।
With a lion's slender waist, draped in yellow silk, a treasury of grace and gentle virtue. Seeing the ornament of the Sun dynasty, Sita's companions forgot themselves entirely.