śrī sītārāma kalyāṇa sargaḥ

The seventy-third canto of the Bala Kanda of Valmiki's Ramayana — the wedding — thirty-eight verses of plain narrative that are read as a hymn on the day the marriage is celebrated. It begins away from the ceremony, on the day the king made the great gift of cows, with the arrival of Yudhajit, son of the king of Kekaya and Bharata's own maternal uncle, who asks after the king's welfare before the wedding party can proceed. The canto then carries the rite through in order. Nothing in it is addressed to Rama or asks anything of him; its standing in a stotra collection comes entirely from the occasion on which it is recited.