Sunaina Departs after Praying for Sita
Ayodhya Kanda, Doha 285
Doha 285 · Movement 2 of 2
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Sunaina completes her assurance not with royal certainty, but by falling again at Kausalya's feet. Love has made both queens eager to honor the other.
Her final petition turns toward Sita's welfare. Prophecy may promise Rama's return, yet a mother still sees the bark garment, forest road, and fragile body of her daughter moving through years of exile.
Permission is lovingly given. Sita and Sunaina leave together, carrying the tenderness of the queens' chamber back into the wider encampment. The conversation ends without mastery over the future, but with mutual reverence, prayer, and a promise from the sages holding a small clear space within grief.
With a final prayer for Sita, Sunaina leaves the chamber bearing neither control nor despair, but reverence strengthened by a sage's promise.
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अस कहि पग परि पेम अति सिय हित बिनय सुनाइ।। सिय समेत सियमातु तब चली सुआयसु पाइ।।285।।
Speaking thus, she fell at her feet with overflowing love, offering heartfelt prayers for Sita's welfare. Then Sita, together with her mother Sunaina, departed after receiving loving permission.