Gira mukhara tana aradha bhavani
Chaupai 3, Under Doha 247 · Bal Kand
Chaupai Text
गिरा मुखर तन अरध भवानी। रति अति दुखित अतनु पति जानी॥ बिष बारुनी बंधु प्रिय जेही। कहिअ रमासम किमि बैदेही॥ ३ ॥
Transliteration (IAST)
girā mukhara tana aradha bhavānī। rati ati dukhita atanu pati jānī॥ bisha bāruni bandhu priya jehī। kahia ramāsama kimi baidehī॥ 3 ॥
Meaning
What need is there to speak of the women of the earth? Even among the women of the gods, who are far more divine and beautiful than we are, Saraswati is too talkative; Parvati is only half a woman, as she is half the body of Shiva; Rati suffers greatly because her husband is bodiless; and how can Janaki possibly be compared to Lakshmi, whose dear brothers are poison and liquor, born from the ocean?
Context
This is Chaupai 3, Under Doha 247 from Bal Kand, in the episode “Vishvamitra Enters the Assembly”. The episode describes Vishvamitra entering the great assembly with Rama and Lakshmana, each beholder seeing the princes according to their own devotion.