Two Houses Reach the Summit of Virtue
Bala Kanda, Doha 309
Doha 309 · Movement 2 of 2
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Wherever Mithila's citizens gather, the same recognition passes among men and women. Ram and Sita are the summit at which beauty reaches completion.
Dasharatha's and Janaka's royal houses are likewise the summit of accumulated merit. The children reveal the invisible virtue through which both lineages have been prepared for union.
Beauty and goodness are not separate praises here. Form becomes the flowering of dharma, and family merit becomes visible in bride and bridegroom. The citizens do not claim that royalty alone has produced perfection. They see grace ripening through generations of worship, service, and righteousness until two incomparable forms can meet in one marriage.
Sita and Ram crown beauty, while Janaka and Dasharatha reveal the virtue from which such beauty flowered.
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Complete doha309; comparative two kings selected, Rama Sita and citizen groups offcrop.
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Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 293 · printed pages 291. Reader passage: bala-kanda-doha-310. Printed numbering may differ.
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- Rama and Sita are the summit of beauty; TWO KINGS Janaka and Dasharatha the summit of merit.
- Groups of townspeople men and women everywhere praise this; comparative portrait does not certify co-location.
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- Two heads four visible own hands, each right chest left waist; Janaka left trimmed dark silverchin beard green threecrest crown teal ivory; Dasharatha right full whitegray beard ruby round crown red cream. Both look toward the other, closed gentle smiles. Waist crop no feet certificate.
- 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.
- Comparative paired framing not authenticated simultaneous meeting. Rama Sita beauty both kings merit fullsource retained.
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रामु सीय सोभा अवधि सुकृत अवधि दोउ राज। जहँ जहँ पुरजन कहहिं अस मिलि नर नारि समाज।।।309।।
Rama and Sita are the very summit of beauty, and both royal houses are the pinnacle of virtue. So the citizens declare wherever they gather, men and women coming together in joyful fellowship.