Baal Kaanda
55 - Arrival of the marriage procession and its reception etc., at Janakapura
Chaupais
Description
"There will be hospitality of every kind; who, dear one, would not love to stay at such a father-in-law's. On each such occasion all the people of the city will be happy to behold Sri Rama and Laksmana. King Dasaratha, my friends, has brought with him two other lads exactly resembling the pair of Rama and Laksmana. One dark, the other fair, but both charming of every limb: so declare all those who have seen them." Said another, "I saw them today: it appeared to me as though the Creator had fashioned them with his own hands. Bharata is an exact copy of Rama; no man or woman could distinguish them at first sight. Laksmana and Satrusudana (Satrughna) are indistinguishable from each other, peerless in every limb from head to foot. The four brothers attract the mind but cannot be described in words; for they have no match in all the three worlds."