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Ayodhya Blesses the Four Sons of Dasharatha

Bala Kanda, Doha 295

Doha 295 · Movement 2 of 2

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Those who seek alms are called forward, and the queens pour charity into waiting hands in countless forms. The palace celebration becomes nourishment and wealth for people beyond its walls.

One blessing rises repeatedly from the gathering: may the four sons of Emperor Dasharatha live long. Ram's marriage is the immediate joy, but love embraces Bharata, Lakshmana, and Shatrughna within the same prayer.

Giving and blessing circle through the royal house. The queens offer material abundance; recipients return words whose value cannot be measured. At the centre are four brothers, two present and two far away, held together by Ayodhya's voice before the wedding procession has taken a single step.

Charity leaves the palace, and blessings for all four brothers flow back through its gates.

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An alms recipient holds a gifted cloth and offers a blessing for Dasharatha's four sons.

AI-created devotional illustration · Doha 295

Full sourceSORATHA295 PDF282 stableDoha296; selects ONE alms recipient giving departing long-life blessing; sourcegroup/queens retained offcrop.

Source reference and artistic choices

Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 282 · printed pages 280. Reader passage: bala-kanda-doha-296. Printed numbering may differ.

Source facts

  • Queens call alms seekers and give nichhavar in countless ways.
  • Departing ALMS RECIPIENTS bless FOURsons of emperorDasharatha with LONG LIFE, not queen/mother blessing.
  • Source longlife wish not eternity/certified cosmic rulership destiny.
  • Witness source295 labelled SORATHA, stable readerID doha296 preserved.

Artistic choices

  • One chosenanonymousalmsrecipient head two connectedarms two ownhands: actualOWNRIGHT atCHEST (notpromptopenpalm), OWNLEFT holdsONE foldedcreamclothrustthinborder onlap withleftforearm. OPENeyesRIGHT gentlyparted/closedsmallwarm smile no audiblecert. Bareheadshortwavyblackhair CLEANSHAVEN UNMARKEDforehead warmtangoldslenderoval plainivoryclothgarb. NO ivoryturban/shortbeardbluegrey Mithila messenger, who declined gifts. Partiallegscrop nofullfeetcert no otherfigure.
  • Exact poses/gazes/numericalages/clothes/ornamentcounts/geargeometryfastening/materials/spatialframing artistchoices not history or wholeparticipant/anatomy/motion/audible/emotionmotive census. Fullsourceoffcrop facts retained noabsenceinference/corpuscorrection/inventedHindi/publishing. Source comparisons/characterinsults/threats not physicaltransformations/violentevents.
  • Gifted foldedcloth conventionalartistchoice incontext followingC293 recipientswearvariedcloth, not specificsourceD296 inventory/preciseprovenancedonationcount. Reused anonymousappearance not historicalsameperson or caste/health/poverty assertion.

An imaginative interpretation, not a historical portrait or documentary evidence.

जाचक लिए हँकारि दीन्हि निछावरि कोटि बिधि। चिरु जीवहुँ सुत चारि चक्रबर्ति दसरत्थ के।।295।।

Calling forth those who sought alms, the queens showered charity in countless ways. 'May the four sons of Emperor Dasharatha (Chakravarti Dasarattha) live long!'