The Queens' Palace Blooms like an Ocean beneath the Full Moon
Ayodhya Kanda, Doha 7
Doha 7 · Movement 2 of 2
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News of the intended coronation reaches the queens' palace. Chambers that held ordinary movement bloom at once with voices, embraces, instructions, and the sudden brightness of fulfilled hope.
The doha sees their joy as an ocean watching the moon grow full. Wave after wave rises because the beloved light above it is nearing completion.
Ram is the moon toward whom the household's affection has always moved. Now the promise of his anointing gathers every current into dance. The palace does not merely contain happy individuals; it becomes one body of water lifted by a single radiant presence.
At the news of Ram's crown, joy rises through the queens' palace like waves beneath a full moon.
Read the passage from the Manas
एहि अवसर मंगलु परम सुनि रहँसेउ रनिवासु। सोभत लखि बिधु बढ़त जनु बारिधि बीचि बिलासु।।7।।
At that very moment, hearing this supremely auspicious news, the entire queen's palace bloomed with joy. It was as if the ocean's waves danced with delight, watching the moon grow full.