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Chapter 3

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शेष उवाच। दृष्ट्वा रामो राजधानीं निजलोकनिवासिनीम् । जहर्ष मतिमान्वीरश्चिरदर्शनलालसः १। भरतोऽपि स्वकं मित्रं सुमुखं नगरं प्रति । प्रेषयामास सचिवं नगरोत्सवसिद्धये २। भरत उवाच। कुर्वंतु लोकास्त्वरितं रघुनाथागमोत्सवम् । मंदिरे मंदिरे रम्यं कृतकौतुकचित्रकम् ३। विपांसुका राजमार्गाश्चंदनद्रवसिंचिताः । प्रसूनभरसंकॢप्ता हृष्टपुष्टजनावृताः ४। विचित्रवर्णध्वजभा चित्रिताखिलस्वांगणाः । मेघागमे धनुरिव पश्यंत्वेव वलीमुखाः ५। प्रतिगेहं तु लोकानां कारयंत्वगरूक्षणम् । यद्धूमं वीक्ष्य शिखिनो नृत्यं कुर्वंतु लीलया ६। हस्तिनो मम शैलाभानाधोरणसुयंत्रितान् । विचित्रयंतु बहुशो गैरिकाद्युपधातुभिः ७। वाजिनश्चित्रिता भूयः सुशोभंतु मनोजवाः । यद्वेगवीक्षणादेव गर्वं त्यजति स्वर्हयः ८। कन्याः सहस्रशो रम्याः सर्वाभरणभूषिताः । गजोपरि समारूढा मुक्ताभिर्विकिरंतु च ९। ब्राह्मण्यः पात्रहस्ताश्च दूर्वाहारिद्रसंयुताः । सुवासिन्यो महाराजं रामं नीराजयंतु ताः १०। कौसल्यापुत्रसंयोगसंदेश विधुरा सती । हर्षं प्राप्नोतु सुकृशा तदीक्षणसुलालसा ११। इत्येवमादिरचनाः पुरशोभाविधायिकाः । करोतु जनता हृष्टा रामस्यागमनं प्रति १२। शेष उवाच। इति श्रुत्वा ततो वाक्यं सुमुखो मंत्रवित्तमः । प्रययौ नगरीं कर्तुं कृतकौतुकतोरणाम् १३। गत्वाथ नगरीं तां वै मंत्री तु सुमुखाभिधः । ख्यापयामास लोकानां रामागममहोत्सवम् १४। लोकाः श्रुत्वा पुरीं प्राप्तं रघुनाथं सुहर्षिताः । पूर्वं तदीय विरहत्यक्तभोगसुखादयः १५। ब्राह्मणा वेदसंपन्नाः पवित्रा दर्भपाणयः । धौतोत्तरीयवलिता जग्मुः श्रीरघुनायकम् १६। क्षत्रिया ये शूरतमा धनुर्बाणधरा वराः । संग्रामे बहुशो वीरा जेतारो ययुरप्यमुम् १७। वैश्या धनसमृद्धाश्च मुद्राशोभितपाणयः । शुभ्रवस्त्रपरीधाना अभिजग्मुर्नरेश्वरम् १८। शूद्रा द्विजेषु ये भक्ताः स्वीयाचारसुनिष्ठिताः । वेदाचाररता ये वै तेऽपिजग्मुः पुरीपतिम् १९। ये ये वृत्तिकरा लोकाः स्वे स्वे कर्मण्यधिष्ठिताः । स्वकं वस्तु समादाय ययुः श्रीरामभूपतिम् २०। इत्थं भूपतिसंदेशात्प्रमोदाप्लवसंयुताः । नाना कौतुकसंयुक्ता आजग्मुर्मनुजेश्वरम् २१। शेष उवाच। रघुनाथोऽपि सकलैर्दैवतैः स्वस्वयानगैः । परीतः प्रविवेशोच्चैः पुरीं रचितमोहनाम् २२। प्लवंगाः प्लवनैर्युक्ता आकाशपथचारिणः । स्वस्वशोभापरीतांगाश्चानुजग्मुः पुरोत्तमम् २३। पुष्पकादवरुह्याशु नरयानमथारुहत् । सीतया सहितो रामः परिवारसमावृतः २४। अयोध्यां प्रविवेशाथ कृतकौतुकतोरणाम् । हृष्टपुष्टजनाकीर्णामुत्सवैः परीभूषिताम् २५। वीणापणवभेर्यादिवादित्रैराहतैर्भृशम् । शोभमानः स्तूयमानः सूतमागधबंदिभिः २६। जय राघवरामेति जय सूर्यकुलांगद । जय दाशरथे देव जयताल्लोकनायकः २७। इति शृण्वञ्छुभां वाचं पौराणां हर्षितांगिनाम् । रामदर्शनसंजात पुलकोद्भेद शोभिनाम् २८। प्रविवेश वरं मार्गं रथ्याचत्वरभूषितम् । चंदनोदकसंसिक्तं पुष्पपल्लवसंयुतम् २९। तदा पौरांगनाः काश्चिद्गवाक्षबिलमाश्रिताः । रघुनाथस्वरूपेक्षा जातकामा अथाब्रुवन् ३०। पौरांगना ऊचुः। धन्या अभूवन्बत भिल्लकन्या वनेषु या राममुखारविंदम् । स्वलोचनेंदीवरकैरथापिबन्स्वभाग्यसंजातमहोदया इमाः ३१। धन्यं मुखं पश्यत वीरधाम्नः श्रीरामदेवस्य सरोजनेत्रम् । यद्दर्शनं धातृमुखाः सुरा अपि प्रापुर्महद्भाग्ययुता वयंत्वहो ३२। एतन्मुखं पश्यत चारुहासं किरीटसंशोभिनिजोत्तमांगम् । बंधूकधिक्कारलसच्छविप्रदं दंतच्छदं बिभ्रतमुच्चनासम् ३३। इति गदितवतीस्ताः स्नेहभारेण रामा नलिनदलसदृक्षैर्नेत्रपातैर्निरीक्ष्य । निखिलगुरुरनूनप्रेमभारं नृलोकं जननिगृहमियेष प्रोषितांगेन हृष्टः ३४। इति श्रीपद्मपुराणे पातालखंडे शेषवात्स्यायनसंवादे रामाश्वमेधे रघुनाथस्य पुरप्रवेशनं नाम तृतीयोऽध्यायः ३।

śeṣa uvāca| dṛṣṭvā rāmo rājadhānīṃ nijalokanivāsinīm | jaharṣa matimānvīraściradarśanalālasaḥ 1| bharato'pi svakaṃ mitraṃ sumukhaṃ nagaraṃ prati | preṣayāmāsa sacivaṃ nagarotsavasiddhaye 2| bharata uvāca| kurvaṃtu lokāstvaritaṃ raghunāthāgamotsavam | maṃdire maṃdire ramyaṃ kṛtakautukacitrakam 3| vipāṃsukā rājamārgāścaṃdanadravasiṃcitāḥ | prasūnabharasaṃkḷptā hṛṣṭapuṣṭajanāvṛtāḥ 4| vicitravarṇadhvajabhā citritākhilasvāṃgaṇāḥ | meghāgame dhanuriva paśyaṃtveva valīmukhāḥ 5| pratigehaṃ tu lokānāṃ kārayaṃtvagarūkṣaṇam | yaddhūmaṃ vīkṣya śikhino nṛtyaṃ kurvaṃtu līlayā 6| hastino mama śailābhānādhoraṇasuyaṃtritān | vicitrayaṃtu bahuśo gairikādyupadhātubhiḥ 7| vājinaścitritā bhūyaḥ suśobhaṃtu manojavāḥ | yadvegavīkṣaṇādeva garvaṃ tyajati svarhayaḥ 8| kanyāḥ sahasraśo ramyāḥ sarvābharaṇabhūṣitāḥ | gajopari samārūḍhā muktābhirvikiraṃtu ca 9| brāhmaṇyaḥ pātrahastāśca dūrvāhāridrasaṃyutāḥ | suvāsinyo mahārājaṃ rāmaṃ nīrājayaṃtu tāḥ 10| kausalyāputrasaṃyogasaṃdeśa vidhurā satī | harṣaṃ prāpnotu sukṛśā tadīkṣaṇasulālasā 11| ityevamādiracanāḥ puraśobhāvidhāyikāḥ | karotu janatā hṛṣṭā rāmasyāgamanaṃ prati 12| śeṣa uvāca| iti śrutvā tato vākyaṃ sumukho maṃtravittamaḥ | prayayau nagarīṃ kartuṃ kṛtakautukatoraṇām 13| gatvātha nagarīṃ tāṃ vai maṃtrī tu sumukhābhidhaḥ | khyāpayāmāsa lokānāṃ rāmāgamamahotsavam 14| lokāḥ śrutvā purīṃ prāptaṃ raghunāthaṃ suharṣitāḥ | pūrvaṃ tadīya virahatyaktabhogasukhādayaḥ 15| brāhmaṇā vedasaṃpannāḥ pavitrā darbhapāṇayaḥ | dhautottarīyavalitā jagmuḥ śrīraghunāyakam 16| kṣatriyā ye śūratamā dhanurbāṇadharā varāḥ | saṃgrāme bahuśo vīrā jetāro yayurapyamum 17| vaiśyā dhanasamṛddhāśca mudrāśobhitapāṇayaḥ | śubhravastraparīdhānā abhijagmurnareśvaram 18| śūdrā dvijeṣu ye bhaktāḥ svīyācārasuniṣṭhitāḥ | vedācāraratā ye vai te'pijagmuḥ purīpatim 19| ye ye vṛttikarā lokāḥ sve sve karmaṇyadhiṣṭhitāḥ | svakaṃ vastu samādāya yayuḥ śrīrāmabhūpatim 20| itthaṃ bhūpatisaṃdeśātpramodāplavasaṃyutāḥ | nānā kautukasaṃyuktā ājagmurmanujeśvaram 21| śeṣa uvāca| raghunātho'pi sakalairdaivataiḥ svasvayānagaiḥ | parītaḥ praviveśoccaiḥ purīṃ racitamohanām 22| plavaṃgāḥ plavanairyuktā ākāśapathacāriṇaḥ | svasvaśobhāparītāṃgāścānujagmuḥ purottamam 23| puṣpakādavaruhyāśu narayānamathāruhat | sītayā sahito rāmaḥ parivārasamāvṛtaḥ 24| ayodhyāṃ praviveśātha kṛtakautukatoraṇām | hṛṣṭapuṣṭajanākīrṇāmutsavaiḥ parībhūṣitām 25| vīṇāpaṇavabheryādivāditrairāhatairbhṛśam | śobhamānaḥ stūyamānaḥ sūtamāgadhabaṃdibhiḥ 26| jaya rāghavarāmeti jaya sūryakulāṃgada | jaya dāśarathe deva jayatāllokanāyakaḥ 27| iti śṛṇvañchubhāṃ vācaṃ paurāṇāṃ harṣitāṃginām | rāmadarśanasaṃjāta pulakodbheda śobhinām 28| praviveśa varaṃ mārgaṃ rathyācatvarabhūṣitam | caṃdanodakasaṃsiktaṃ puṣpapallavasaṃyutam 29| tadā paurāṃganāḥ kāścidgavākṣabilamāśritāḥ | raghunāthasvarūpekṣā jātakāmā athābruvan 30| paurāṃganā ūcuḥ| dhanyā abhūvanbata bhillakanyā vaneṣu yā rāmamukhāraviṃdam | svalocaneṃdīvarakairathāpibansvabhāgyasaṃjātamahodayā imāḥ 31| dhanyaṃ mukhaṃ paśyata vīradhāmnaḥ śrīrāmadevasya sarojanetram | yaddarśanaṃ dhātṛmukhāḥ surā api prāpurmahadbhāgyayutā vayaṃtvaho 32| etanmukhaṃ paśyata cāruhāsaṃ kirīṭasaṃśobhinijottamāṃgam | baṃdhūkadhikkāralasacchavipradaṃ daṃtacchadaṃ bibhratamuccanāsam 33| iti gaditavatīstāḥ snehabhāreṇa rāmā nalinadalasadṛkṣairnetrapātairnirīkṣya | nikhilagururanūnapremabhāraṃ nṛlokaṃ jananigṛhamiyeṣa proṣitāṃgena hṛṣṭaḥ 34| iti śrīpadmapurāṇe pātālakhaṃḍe śeṣavātsyāyanasaṃvāde rāmāśvamedhe raghunāthasya purapraveśanaṃ nāma tṛtīyo'dhyāyaḥ 3|

English translation

Śeṣa said :

1. Rāma , the intelligent hero, who, for a long time, desired to see the capital was delighted on seeing it where his own people lived.

2. Bharata too sent to the city his friend, minister Sumukha , to prepare the city for the festivity.

Bharata said :

3-12. The people should quickly celebrate the festival of Rāma’s arrival. They should have gay pictures drawn in every house. The royal roads should be free from dust. They should be sprinkled over with liquid sandal. They should be furnished with abundant flowers. They should be crowded with delighted and rich people. All the big courtyards should be adorned with flags of various colours and painted. The fronts of the ridges of the thatched roofs should appear like the bow at the time of the arrival of the clouds (i.e. like the rainbow). The people should send forth agaru (sandal), seeing the smoke of which peacocks would dance sportively. They should paint with the minerals from mountains my elephants resembling mountains and well-controlled by the drivers. The horses having the speed of mind and painted should also look beautiful, seeing whose speed the heavenly horse gives up his pride. Beautiful virgins in thousands adorned with all ornaments and mounted on elephants, should scatter pearls. The married brāhmaṇa -women with vessels in their hands containing dūrvā (grass) and turmeric (powder) should wave lights before Rāma, the great king. May Kauśalyā who is afflicted by the information about the union with her son, and who very much longs for seeing him, be delighted. The delighted people should make such arrangements giving beauty to the city on the arrival of Rama .

Śeṣa said :

13-21. Hearing these words from (i.e. uttered by) him, Sumukha who was best among the counsellors, went to the city to have in it triumphal archs erected for the festive occasion. That minister named Sumukha, having gone to the city (viz. Ayodhyā ), informed the people of the great festival (to be celebrated) on the arrival of Rama. The people who had formerly given up their enjoyments and pleasures due to separation from him, were (now) very much delighted on hearing that Rāma had come (back) to the city. Pure brāhmaṇas , rich in (the knowledge of) the Vedas , with darbhas in their hands, and covered with bright upper garments, went to the lord of the Raghus . So also many excellent kṣatriyas who were the bravest, who had held bows and arrows, who were brave in battles went to him. Similarly vaiśyas who were wealthy, whose hands were adorned with signet-rings, who had put on white garments went to the lord of men (i.e. Rāma). Śūdras who were devoted to brāhmaṇas, who practised their own course of conduct, who followed the code of conduct (as laid down) in the Vedas also went to the lord of the city. So also people who followed (various) vocations, and who were attached to their own duties went, taking their own things (i.e. presents), to king Śrī Rāma . Thus, people full of flood of delight, and (taking) with (them) many wonderful objects, approached by the order of the king (Bharata) the lord of men (i.e. Rāma).

Śeṣa said :

22-30. Raghunatha also, surrounded by all deities seated in their own cars, entered the city in which attractive objects were arranged. The monkeys, leaping and going along the aerial path, and with their bodies beautified followed (the king) to the best city. Rāma accompanied by Sītā and surrounded by his attendants quickly got down from the Puṣpaka , and got into a vehicle drawn by men. Then he entered Ayodhyā, in which triumphal archs were erected for the festive occasion, which was crowded with joyful and rich people, and which was fully adorned with gay objects. He looked very much pleased with the musical instruments like lutes (being played upon) and kettle-drums and other musical instruments being played upon and was praised by Sūtas , Māgadhas and other bards. Hearing the auspicious words, “Victory to Rāghava , to Rāma; victory to the ornament of the solar race; victory to the son of Daśaratha ; may the lord of the world be victorious” uttered by the citizens who were delighted, and who looked graceful on account of horripilation produced on seeing Rāma, he entered (i.e. went to) the excellent path which was adorned with places where many roads meet, which was sprinkled over with sandal (mixed with) water, and which was furnished with flowers and leaves. At that time certain women in the city, desiring to see the form of Raghunātha , (and therefore) resorting to the holes of the latticed windows said (these words):

The women of the city said :

31-34. Oh! the bhilla -girls who in the forests drank with their lotus-like eyes the lotus-like face of Rāma, were lucky. They are very prosperous due to their good luck. See the blessed lotus-like face of Rāma having lotus-like eyes. See the blessed face, having lotus-like eyes, of Śrī Rāmadeva, the abode of bravery, which (face) gods like the Creator also saw. Oh! we are (indeed) very lucky. She this face which has a charm ing smile, which shines with a crown, which is extremely charming, which possesses lips the beauty of which has surpassed that of the bandhūka (flower), and which has a high nose.

Thus spoke those women, observing him with glances resembling lotus-petals. The lord of all, of a weak body, but delighted, entered his mother’s house, which had great love (in store for him).

Complete chapter-aligned witnesses. Sanskrit Wikisource page 43579, revision 335828 (2022-04-15T11:28:40Z). English is N. A. Deshpande’s complete translation, controlled against its chapter page at https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-padma-purana/d/doc365314.html and the ten-volume archival witness. The witnesses are aligned at chapter level; no unsupported verse-by-verse equivalence is asserted.