Mithila Pours Its Wealth into Celebration
Bala Kanda, Doha 262
Doha 262 · Movement 2 of 2
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Court bards, genealogists, and singers recover their voices after the thunder. With disciplined memory they begin reciting the heroic praises of Ram, setting the impossible deed within the lineages and language of kings.
Joy moves quickly from acclaim into giving. People bring horses, elephants, wealth, jewels, and fine cloth, laying costly possessions forward as offerings without calculation.
Nothing can equal what has just been witnessed, yet generosity seeks a visible form. The citizens answer grace with abundance, allowing stored riches to leave their hands in the exhilaration of the hour. Around the broken bow, royal treasure becomes festival, and praise becomes something the whole city can touch and share.
Before Ram, Mithila's wealth loosens from guarded hands and becomes an offering of joy.
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Full doha262; selected one Bandi praising Rama after bowbreak, other groups and all five gift categories outcrop not denied.
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Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 256 · printed pages 254. Reader passage: bala-kanda-doha-263. Printed numbering may differ.
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- BANDI MAGADHA SUTA named bard groups steadfastly sing praises.
- All people NICHHAVARI/give offerings HORSES ELEPHANTS WEALTH GEMS CLOTH; all FIVE categories retained. No source fulfilling every need clause or named recipient of all gifts.
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- PASS one foreground adult Bandi head two connected ownarms two naturalhands own RIGHT chest own LEFT openpalm extended RIGHT; OPENbrown eyes RIGHT PARTEDpraisingspeech lips. Warmmediumbrown roundedoval clean-shaven blacklowbun unmarkedforehead indigofullsleeves creamplainshawl/belt no capcrown jewelrybeads. Soft unnamed backgroundassembly identities/head/limb/animal/offer count not certified; all namedgroups/five offering categories retained source facts offcropnotdenied.
- Exact pose/gaze/counts/numerical ages/garments/materials/flower species/architecture/location are artist choices, not source biography or whole participant/head/limb/cosmic/animal/offer census. Full source retained, source original and index variants guarded with no corpus edits, missing explanations not invented.
- One Bandi uses prior unnamed herald appearance artist model, not historically authenticated same individual or exclusively one group. No current Janaka-vow proclamation. All three groups/all five gift categories source facts retained offcrop; no gift receipt/recipient transfer/count ceremony certificate or source every-need claim.
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बंदी मागध सूतगन बिरुद बदहिं मतिधीर। करहिं निछावरि लोग सब हय गय धन मनि चीर।।262।।
Bards, genealogists, and court singers of steady mind recite the heroic praises of the Lord. All people make offerings in joyful celebration: horses, elephants, wealth, jewels, and fine cloth.