Bhushundi's Joy Carries Rama from Childhood into the Wedding Pavilion
Uttara Kanda, Doha 64ख
Doha 64ख · Movement 2 of 2
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Bhushundi's voice moves through Rama's childhood with supreme delight. Beneath the banyan, each remembered deed rises in another form, as though Ayodhya's courtyards, the brothers' games, and the tender wonder surrounding the child Lord are appearing among the listening birds.
The narration does not remain in one season. Sages enter the story, and the path turns toward the events that lead Rama away from the palace and into the protection of sacrifice. Then the scene brightens into the wedding of Shri Raghuvira.
Garuda hears the whole sacred movement gathered into a Doha: childhood opening toward duty, duty opening toward divine union. Bhushundi's inward enthusiasm gives continuity to distant scenes. He does not recite a bare list of episodes. Love carries the listener across years without breaking the presence of Rama, so that the child in Ayodhya and the bridegroom in Mithila shine as one Lord in changing lila.
In Bhushundi's song, the lamps of Rama's childhood become the wedding lights of Mithila without ever leaving the sheltering banyan.
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बालचरित कहिं बिबिध बिधि मन महँ परम उछाह। रिषि आगवन कहेसि पुनि श्री रघुबीर बिबाह।।64।।
He narrated the childhood deeds in various ways, with supreme joy in his heart. Then he told of the sages' arrival, and afterwards sang of Shri Raghuvira's wedding.