One Prayer Lives in Every Heart of Ayodhya
Ayodhya Kanda, Doha 1ख
Doha 1ख · Movement 2 of 2
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Across Ayodhya, separate hearts begin carrying the same wish. Palace servant, merchant, elder, mother, and child all imagine Ram invested as Yuvaraja while Dasharatha still lives to behold it.
Their desire rises toward Shiva in prayer and also passes openly from voice to voice. Private hope becomes the city's shared invocation.
No decree has been issued and no drum has announced a coronation, yet inward consent already unites the people around Ram. The kingdom recognizes its future before the court speaks. In that unanimity, kingship appears not as power seized from above but as love asking dharma to take its visible seat.
Before a crown is prepared, all Ayodhya has already enthroned Ram within one shared prayer.
Read the passage from the Manas
सब कें उर अभिलाषु अस कहहिं मनाइ महेसु। आप अछत जुबराज पद रामहि देउ नरेसु।।1।।
In everyone's heart lives the same wish. They pray to Lord Shiva and say aloud: "May the king, while he yet lives, grant Rama the title of Yuvaraja!"