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6 passagesदीयमानां न तु तदा प्रतिजग्राह राघव: । अविज्ञाय पितुश्छन्दमयोध्याधिपते: प्रभो: ।। २.११८.५१ ।।
Then Rāghava did not accept what was being offered, not having ascertained the wish of his father, the lord, the ruler of Ayodhyā.
तत: श्वशुरमामन्त्र्य वृद्धं दशरथं नृपम् । मम पित्रा त्वहं दत्ता रामाय विदितात्मने ।। २.११८.५२ ।।
Then, having addressed my father-in-law, the aged King Dasharatha, I was given by my father to Rama, who knew his own self.
मम चैवानुजा साध्वी ऊर्मिला प्रियदर्शना । भार्य्यार्थे लक्ष्मणस्यापि दत्ता पित्रा मम स्वयम् ।। २.११८.५३ ।।
And my virtuous younger sister Urmila, lovely to behold, was herself given by my father as Lakshmana’s wife.
एवं दत्तास्मि रामाय तदा तस्मिन् स्वयम्वरे । अनुरक्तास्मि धर्मेण पतिं वीर्यवतां वरम् ।। २.११८.५४ ।।
Thus I was given to Rama at that self-choice ceremony then. In accordance with dharma, I have become devoted to my husband, the best among the powerful.
इत्यार्षे श्रीमद्रामायणे वाल्मीकीये आदिकाव्ये श्रीमदयोध्याकाण्डे अष्टादशोत्तरशततम: सर्ग: ।। ११८ ।।
Thus, in the noble Rāmāyaṇa, the Vālmīkiya, the first poem, in the glorious Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, the one-hundred-and-eighteenth sarga.
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