Baal Kaanda
55 - Arrival of the marriage procession and its reception etc., at Janakapura
Chaupais
Description
Even Sarada is unable to describe the noble steed on which Sri Rama rode. Sankara (who has five faces, with three eyes each) was enamoured of Sri Rama's beauty and congratulated himself on His possessing as many as fifteen eyes. When Sri Hari (Visnu) fondly gazed on Rama, both Rama and Her lord were equally enchanted. (The four-faced) Brahma too was delighted to behold Sri Rama's beauty; but he felt sorry to think that he had only eight eyes. The generalissimo of the heavenly host (the six-faced Kartikeya) exulted over the fact of his possessing half as many eyes again as Brahma. When the wise lord of celestials gazed on Sri Rama (with his thousand eyes), he thought Gautama's curse as the greatest blessing. All the gods envied Indra and observed, "No one can vie with Purandara (Indra) today." The whole host of heavenly beings rejoiced to behold Sri Rama and there was joy beyond measure in the court of both the monarchs.