The bridegroom’s party had arrived earlier than the day fixed for the wedding, and so there was great rejoicing in the city. Everyone enjoyed the pleasures of Paradise and prayed God that the days and nights might be lengthened.

‘Rama and Sita are the perfection of beauty and the two kings (Dasharath and Janaka) the perfection of piety!’ Thus would observe the men and women of the city wherever they happened to meet.‘Rama and Sita are the perfection of beauty and the two kings (Dasharath and Janaka) the perfection of piety!’ Thus would observe the men and women of the city wherever they happened to meet.

‘Janaki (Sita)is the incarnation of Janaka’s merit and Rama is Dasharath’s virtue personified. No one has worshipped Shiva with such devotion as these two kings, nor has anyone obtained such a reward as they have.

No one has equalled them in this world, nor is there anyone to equal them anywhere, nor ever shall be. We all, too, are storehouses of all kinds of merits in that we have been born into the world as citizens of Janaka’s capital.

-and have beheld the beauty of Janaki and Rama! Who is so highly blessed as we? And now we shall witness Raghunatha’s wedding and richly reap the benefit of our eyes.’v

Maidens with voice as sweet as the notes of the cuckoo whispered to one another, ‘O bright-eyed friends, we shall gain much by this union. By our great good luck Providence has ordained things well, for the two brothers shall often dwell as guests in our eyes.

Impelled by affection, Janaka will every so often send for Sita (from Ayodhya), and the two brothers, charming as millions of Cupids put together, will come to take her back.