{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rama/ry049.htm","path":"hin/rama/ry049.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rama/ry049.htm","text":"Then R\u00e1ma, following still his guide,\n Within the grove, with Lakshman, hied.\n Her vows a wondrous light had lent\n To that illustrious penitent.\n He saw the glorious lady, screened\n From eye of man, and God, and fiend,\n Like some bright portent which the care\n Of Brahm\u00e1 launches through the air,\n Designed by his illusive art\n To flash a moment and depart:\n Or like the flame that leaps on high\n To sink involved in smoke and die:\n \n \n \n Or like the full moon shining through\n The wintry mist, then lost to view:\n Or like the sun's reflection, cast\n Upon the flood, too bright to last:\n So was the glorious dame till then\n Removed from Gods' and mortals' ken,\n Till--such was Gautam's high decree--\n Prince R\u00e1ma came to set her free.\n \n \n Then, with great joy that dame to meet,\n The sons of Raghu clapped her feet;\n And she, remembering Gautam's oath,\n With gentle grace received them both;\n Then water for their feet she gave,\n Guest-gift, and all that strangers crave.\n \n \n The prince, of courteous rule aware,\n Received, as meet, the lady's care.\n Then flowers came down in copious rain,\n And moving to the heavenly strain\n Of music in the skies that rang.\n The nymphs and minstrels danced and sang:\n And all the Gods with one glad voice\n Praised the great dame, and cried, 'Rejoice!\n Through fervid rites no more defiled,\n But with thy husband reconciled.'\n Gautam, the holy hermit knew--\n For naught escaped his godlike view--\n That R\u00e1ma lodged beneath that shade,\n And hasting there his homage paid.\n He took Ahaly\u00e1 to his side.\n From sin and folly purified,\n And let his new-found consort bear\n In his austerities a share.\n \n \n Then R\u00e1ma, pride of Raghu's race,\n Welcomed by Gautam, face to face,\n Who every highest honour showed,\n To Mithil\u00e1 pursued his road.\n \n \n \n \n \n61:1 Kumarila says:' In the same manner, if it is said that Indra was the seducer of Ahaly\u00e1 this does not imply that the God Indra committed such a crime, but Indra means the sun, and Ahaly\u00e1 (from ahan and l\u00ed) the night; and as the night is seduced and ruined by the sun of the morning, therefore is Indra called the paramour of Ahaly\u00e1.' MAX MULLER, History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, p.530","title":"BOOK I: Canto XLIX.: Ahaly\u00e1 Freed.","type":"page"}