Sages Gather at Dasharatha's Call
Bala Kanda, Doha 330
Doha 330 · Movement 2 of 2
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Vamadeva, Narada, Valmiki, Jabali, and multitudes of great ascetics arrive in response to the guru's summons. Kaushika and other masters of austerity join them.
Different streams of wisdom gather within the wedding city: royal priests, divine messengers, poets of sacred history, philosophers, and forest seers.
They do not assemble for debate or instruction but to receive the king's gratitude and bless the newly expanded house. Learning and tapas become witnesses to generosity. Through their presence, Dasharatha's private joy enters the continuity of sacred tradition, carried by those whose words and lives preserve dharma across generations.
From court and forest, the bearers of wisdom gather around the wedding's first dawn.
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- KAUSHIKA Vishvamitra notclaimedRAMA FIRSTGURU; precedingVasishtha education/othercontexts preserved.
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बामदेउ अरु देवरिषि बालमीकि जाबालि। आए मुनिबर निकर तब कौसिकादि तपसालि।।330।।
Vamadeva and the divine sage Narada, Valmiki, Jabali, and other great ascetics arrived. Then came excellent sages in multitudes, Kaushika and other devoted practitioners of austerity.