The Four Princes Return to Their Father with Their Brides
Bala Kanda, Doha 327
Doha 327 · Movement 3 of 3
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All four princes enter Dasharatha's presence accompanied by their brides. The sons who left Ayodhya as youths now stand within newly formed pairs.
Beauty, auspiciousness, and joy surge through the guest lodging like waves. Marriage has expanded the royal family before the father's eyes.
The scene contains no public contest or cosmic threat, only the fullness of return. Dasharatha sees each son beside the woman entrusted to his house, and the janavaasa becomes a temporary palace of completion. What began as a journey to recover sight of Ram and Lakshmana now gives Ayodhya four daughters and four radiant households in seed.
Before Dasharatha, four sons return as four couples, and the guest house overflows like a sea of blessing.
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- ALLPRINCES WITH THEIR BRIDES comeFATHER.
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सहित बधूटिन्ह कुअँर सब तब आए पितु पास। सोभा मंगल मोद भरि उमगेउ जनु जनवास।।327।।
Together with their brides, all the princes then came into their father's presence. The janavaasa overflowed with beauty, auspiciousness and joy, as though bliss itself had surged forth in waves.