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In plain words
While the women came thronging, singing this, the men came singing songs of another kind.
Come, let us see the wedding, of Kausalyā’s son; come, let us see the wedding; for those who see it, they say, it is great merit, for men of merit, they say, a blessed fortune: the wedding!
Flutes, kettledrums and mṛdaṅgas, chariots, elephants and horses, they say; taking them along came the aged Kauśika, behind Kauśika the aged Daśaratha, behind Daśaratha the minister Sumantra; most wondrously, in joy, the whole of Ayodhyā set out and came, they say: the wedding!
After the great wedding festival, all set out together from Mithilā for Ayodhyā. On the way they heard a great sound. While everyone was wondering where the sound had come from, Paraśurāma came and stopped them, saying, “Who broke the bow of Śiva?” Rāma came forward and said, “I broke it.” “Oho, you? Then break this one, let us see,” he said, and gave another bow into Rāma’s hand. Rāma broke that too with ease. Then Paraśurāma offered to Rāma the two kalās he held. Of the sixteen kalās an Avatāra should have, twelve were in Rāma. Two kalās had gone into the remaining three brothers.