LAKSHMILA: the saga of love and sacrifice

SWAYAMVAR

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Today was hustle- bustle in royal palace of mithila and why not , It was the swayamvar of their beloved princess sita.

Rajrishi being a king still lives like a Rishi and made sure that his daughters also get aware of the struggles of normal life and used to make time to time contact of his daughters from Praja hence those four daughters of mithila were daughters of mithilavasi too and because of it mithilavasi too came to help in sita 's swayamvar.

Mandvi, is sita ready ? Asked queen chandrabhaga from his elder daughter.

Maa , attendees are making her ready, replied mandvi while grabbing gajra which she came to collect for her sister.

Make her ready fast, said chandrabhaga and rushed towards the kitchen.

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Urmila, why are you roaming like this? Go and dressed up like a princess , queen Sunaina scolded her daughter as urmila was busy in kitchen, eating besan laddu.

Yes, who knows today we find a perfect groom for you too, winked chandrabhaga at urmila making urmila roll her eyes.

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Bhaiya , should we go to the royal court of mithila ? Asked an eager lakshman from his brother.

Not until gurudev says us to go, replied ram making lakshman cringed at his brother's principles.

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Scion of neemivansh , king of mithila, maharaj sridhwaj Janak is gracing the royal court of videha with his presence, announced an attendee when rajrishi arrived at his royal court.

His younger brother ,king khushdhwaj was on his right side , his kulguru shatanand ji on his left side while maharishi yagyavalkya was behind them.

All the kings and princes stoop up on respect of Janak. Janak sat on his thore and roamed his eyes in whole sabha lookin at participants and unfortunately none of them was suitable for his daughter .

Maharaj, allow me to announce the names of Participants , asked Rishi yagyavalkya while king nodded at him.

King rompad from ang.
King shrutsa from chedi.
Prince dhumil from vajji.
Crown prince sreeshat from gandhar
Prince abhisen from keikeya ....

Rishi yagyavalkya was announcing while king was praying to his Isthadev , shiv to give a suitable groom for his sita.

Where are maharishi vishwamitra and those two sons of king Dashrath? Asked king Janak out of no where.

W

e are here ! Maharishi made his appearance in mithila's court along with his disciples. Whole court went silent seeing those two handsome warrior boys.

Vishvamitra seated on a high place provided by king Janak, a gesture of respect while ram and lakshman were standing behind Rishi.

Whole aryavart was aware about the divine princes of Ayodhya and their love for one another. They wanted to break this unity but entire world knew this bond is inseperable.

Prince Abhisen and king rompad were looking at princes with knee interest even when ram and lakshman noticed this, they too became shock.

Why king invited his useless Abhisen ? Lakshman muttered under his voice. Lakshman was also controlling his anger seeing rompad, he was very well aware of what that bastard rompad did to his didi but lakshman was quite, again because of oath of his sister.

Soon pure voices of holy shankh was Heard by everyone when king ordered to start the ceremony.

Sabhajan ! I am so overwhelmed by the respect you all have shown to mithila by accepting our invitation . As you all know, today ! This ceremony held for my eldest daughter sita's ceremony.

Once lord parshuram gave the divine bow of lord shiv " pinaka" to my ancestors. Since then the bow has been blessing mithila . In childhood my sita effortlessly lifted lord shiv 's bow which couldn't be even lifted by thousands of Soldiers and on that day itself I decided to choose an extraordinary groom for my divine daughter.

" The one who would be able to lift this shiv dhanush and tie it's string would be the husband of my daughter, sita "

( जो तोड़े शिव धनुष को सो सीता पति होए)

Soon the soldiers in the quantity of 1,00, 000s brought the bow in royal court from garbhagriha of shiv temple.

Everyone again stoop up in respect of lord shiv 's divine bow by joining their hands . Ram was full with respect hearing small sita lifting the divine bow all alone. " Is he worthy for her ?" He wondered.

Princess sita is about to grace court with her presence ! An attendee announced .

Soon sita made her appearance in court, she was decade in red lehnga and heavenly embroidered chunari was placed above her head. She was holding garland of red and white Roses in her delicate hands , whole body was decade with heavy jwellery seeming as if goddess Lakshmi has arrived in mithila leaving vaikuntha behind. ( But only we know how true and divine this leela of Narayan is 🤫)

Everyone was looking at her , not only at her but behind her too. Behind her , three sisters of sita standing there .

Urmila was dressed in orange lehnga choli ,hair opened till hips . Mandvi in her blue and shurtkirti in baby pink lehnga choli. Surely mithila's daughters were blessed be kaamdev.

Ram got lost in his siya meanwhile sita 's impatient eyes got patient when they landed on her Raghunandan.

Lakshman was too looking behind sita , trying to catch a glimpse of the girl who was trying to hide herself from his intense eyes. Lakshman smiled at amusement seeing her antics.

Start the ceremony, king announced .

First king of chedi came but went away at instant, failing. Round of laughters brought humiliation for king.

Here, urmila was time to time taking glance at lakshman and being shocked everytime seeing him shamelessly looking at her with not so innocent smirk on his face. He winked at her, making urmila gasp at him. " Shameless" she thought. Mandvi was observing everything silently.

The king of dharampuri came making everyone laugh at him including urmila and mandvi, because he was of 80 years nearly and his soldiers were supporting him to walk.

Lakshman looked at that king raisin his one eyebrow " he would need his soldiers on his weeding night too " laksh said to ram while ram glared at his brother making his mouth shut .

He too failed ofcourse,soon every king and prince failed making king Janak disappointed.

" I think now this aryabhoomi is empty of brave man. No one is pure and powerful enough to lift this bow which my daughter lifted at a tender age. Today my sorrow has no boundaries, our ancestors did wonder to this land but unfortunately no one is capable to raised their name to new highs" said king Janak .

"How dare you king Janak?" Soon whole sabha heard a roar making everyone Shiver in fear.