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yo loka-vira-samitau dhanur aisam ugram

 sita-svayamvara-grhe trisatopanitam

adaya bala-gaja-lila iveksu-yastim

 sajjyi-krtam nrpa vikrsya babhañja madhye

 

jitvanurupa-guna-sila-vayo ’nga-rupam

 sitabhidham sriyam urasy abhilabdhamanam

marge vrajan bhrgupater vyanayat prarudham

 darpam mahim akrta yas trir araja-bijam

 

Translation by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada: 

 

O King, the pastimes of Lord Ramacandra were wonderful, like those of a baby elephant. In the assembly where mother Sita was to choose her husband, in the midst of the heroes of this world, He broke the bow belonging to Lord Siva. This bow was so heavy that it was carried by three hundred men, but Lord Ramacandra bent and strung it and broke it in the middle, just as a baby elephant breaks a stick of sugarcane. Thus the Lord achieved the hand of mother Sita, who was equally as endowed with transcendental qualities of form, beauty, behavior, age and nature. Indeed, she was the goddess of fortune who constantly rests on the chest of the Lord. While returning from Sita’s home after gaining her at the assembly of competitors, Lord Ramacandra met Parasurama. Although Parasurama was very proud, having rid the earth of the royal order twenty-one times, he was defeated by the Lord, who appeared to be a ksatriya of the royal order.