The Vast Pilgrimage Finds Shelter for the Night
Ayodhya Kanda, Doha 196
Doha 196 · Movement 2 of 2
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A silent inclination from Bharata is enough. Servants understand their master's wish and spread through Shringaverapura to arrange rest for the immense company.
Some travellers are received into houses. Others settle beneath trees, beside still water, within gardens, or among the sheltering edges of the forest. The royal procession loosens into many small circles of repose.
No single enclosure could hold Ayodhya's longing, so the whole landscape becomes its lodging. Roof, branch, lake, cultivated grove, and open wood serve side by side. The distribution is orderly and gentle, allowing bodies worn by vows and distance to rest before the road continues. Beneath many forms of shelter, all sleep within one purpose: the journey toward Ram.
Across house, tree, lake, garden, and forest, one devotion spreads its camp beneath a hundred different roofs.
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सनकारे सेवक सकल चले स्वामि रुख पाइ। घर तरु तर सर बाग बन बास बनाएन्हि जाइ।।196।।
Receiving their master's silent wish, all the servants set out at once. Some found shelter in homes, some beneath trees, some by lakes, in gardens, or in the forest.