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The king's confession, and his death

Valmiki · Ayodhya Kanda
2.61.1–2.65.23 (CrEd 2.55.1–2.59.10)

தமிழ் · விரைவில் வருகிறது · The Tamil is coming

Grieving for Rama, Kausalya reproaches Dasharatha, and the king remembers a sin of his youth: shooting by sound in the dark, he killed an ascetic's son drawing water for his blind parents, and the father cursed him to die of grief for a son. Telling it to Kausalya, the king longs in vain to see Rama and dies after midnight; at dawn the palace women find him and raise the cry.

Sanskrit · English·Translation: Raam Leela

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Part 1 · பகுதி 1

Joined palms

Valmiki 2.61.1–2.63.14 (CrEd 2.55.1–2.57.10)

॥ 2.61.1 ॥

CrEd 2.55.1

silent moment

॥ 2.61.3–4 ॥

CrEd 2.55.3–4

condensed from 2.61.3–4

Kausalya

Sanskrit

कथं नरवरश्रेष्ठ पुत्रौ तौ सह सीतया दुःखितौ सुखसंवृद्धौ वने दुःखं सहिष्यतः … कथम् उष्णं च शीतं च मैथिली प्रसहिष्यते ॥

kathaṃ naravaraśreṣṭha putrau tau saha sītayā duḥkhitau sukhasaṃvṛddhau vane duḥkhaṃ sahiṣyataḥ … katham uṣṇaṃ ca śītaṃ ca maithilī prasahiṣyate

English

How, O best among the best of men,
will those two sons, with Sita,
in sorrow, they who grew in comfort,
bear hardship in the forest?
How will Maithili endure
the heat and the cold?

॥ 2.61.8 ॥

CrEd 2.55.8

Kausalya

Sanskrit

पद्मवर्णं सुकेशान्तं पद्मनिःश्वासम् उत्तमम् कदा द्रक्ष्यामि रामस्य वदनं पुष्करेक्षणम् ॥

padmavarṇaṃ sukeśāntaṃ padmaniḥśvāsam uttamam kadā drakṣyāmi rāmasya vadanaṃ puṣkarekṣaṇam

English

Lotus-hued, framed by fine hair,
lotus-breathed and peerless:
when shall I see the face of Rama,
the lotus-eyed?

॥ 2.61.22 ॥

CrEd 2.55.16

Kausalya

Sanskrit

स तादृशः सिंहबलो वृषभाक्षो नरर्षभः स्वयम् एव हतः पित्रा जलजेनात्मजो यथा ॥

sa tādṛśaḥ siṃhabalo vṛṣabhākṣo nararṣabhaḥ svayam eva hataḥ pitrā jalajenātmajo yathā

English

Such a son, with a lion’s strength,
bull-eyed, a bull among men,
struck down by his own father,
as a fish devours its young.

॥ 2.61.24–25a ॥

CrEd 2.55.18–19ab

Kausalya

Sanskrit

गतिर् एका पतिर् नार्या द्वितीया गतिर् आत्मजः तृतीया ज्ञातयो राजंश् चतुर्थी नेह विद्यते तत्र त्वं चैव मे नास्ति रामश् च वनम् आश्रितः ॥

gatir ekā patir nāryā dvitīyā gatir ātmajaḥ tṛtīyā jñātayo rājaṃś caturthī neha vidyate tatra tvaṃ caiva me nāsti rāmaś ca vanam āśritaḥ

English

A woman’s first refuge is her husband,
her second refuge, her son,
her third, her kin, O king;
a fourth is not found here.
And of these, you are not mine,
and Rama has gone to the forest.

॥ 2.61.27; 2.62.1–4 ॥

CrEd 2.55.21; 2.56.1–2

Valmikiverse caption

Sanskrit

इमां गिरं दारुणशब्दसंश्रितां निशम्य राजापि मुमोह दुःखितः ।
ततः स शोकं प्रविवेश पार्थिवः स्वदुष्कृतं चापि पुनस् तदास्मरत् ।
एवं तु क्रुद्धया राजा राममात्रा सशोकया ।
श्रावितः परुषं वाक्यं चिन्तयाम् आस दुःखितः ।
तस्य चिन्तयमानस्य प्रत्यभात् कर्म दुष्कृतम् ।
यद् अनेन कृतं पूर्वम् अज्ञानाच् छब्दवेधिना ॥

imāṃ giraṃ dāruṇaśabdasaṃśritāṃ niśamya rājāpi mumoha duḥkhitaḥ
tataḥ sa śokaṃ praviveśa pārthivaḥ svaduṣkṛtaṃ cāpi punas tadāsmarat
evaṃ tu kruddhayā rājā rāmamātrā saśokayā
śrāvitaḥ paruṣaṃ vākyaṃ cintayām āsa duḥkhitaḥ
tasya cintayamānasya pratyabhāt karma duṣkṛtam
yad anena kṛtaṃ pūrvam ajñānāc chabdavedhinā

English

Hearing these words, cast in cruel sounds,
the king, in his sorrow, swooned;
then the lord of earth sank into grief,
and remembered again his own misdeed.
So by Rama’s mother, angry
and grieving, was the king
made to hear harsh words;
and in his sorrow he fell to thinking.
And as he thought, there rose before him
the evil deed that he had done
long ago, in ignorance,
as one who shoots by sound.

॥ 2.62.7, 9 ॥

CrEd 2.56.4, 6

condensed from 2.62.7, 9

Dasharatha

Sanskrit

प्रसादये त्वां कौसल्ये रचितोऽयं मयाञ्जलिः वत्सला चानृशंसा च त्वं हि नित्यं परेष्व् अपि … नार्हसे विप्रियं वक्तुं दुःखितापि सुदुःखितम् ॥

prasādaye tvāṃ kausalye racito 'yaṃ mayāñjaliḥ vatsalā cānṛśaṃsā ca tvaṃ hi nityaṃ pareṣv api … nārhase vipriyaṃ vaktuṃ duḥkhitāpi suduḥkhitam

English

I seek your grace, Kausalya;
see, I have joined my palms.
For you are ever loving,
ever kind, even to strangers.
You should not speak unkindly, grieving,
to one whose grief is greater.

॥ 2.62.10 ॥

CrEd 2.56.7

Valmikiverse caption

Sanskrit

तद् वाक्यं करुणं राज्ञः श्रुत्वा दीनस्य भाषितम् ।
कौसल्या व्यसृजद् बाष्पं प्रणालीव नवोदकम् ॥

tad vākyaṃ karuṇaṃ rājñaḥ śrutvā dīnasya bhāṣitam
kausalyā vyasṛjad bāṣpaṃ praṇālīva navodakam

English

Hearing those pitiful words
spoken by the stricken king,
Kausalya let her tears fall,
like new water from a spout.

॥ 2.62.11–12 ॥

CrEd 2.56.8–9

Kausalya

Sanskrit

प्रसीद शिरसा याचे भूमौ निपतितास्मि ते याचितास्मि हता देव हन्तव्याहं न हि त्वया ॥

prasīda śirasā yāce bhūmau nipatitāsmi te yācitāsmi hatā deva hantavyāhaṃ na hi tvayā

English

Be gracious; I beg with my head,
fallen to the ground before you.
Begged by you, my lord, I am slain;
it is not for you to strike me down.

॥ 2.62.14b–15 ॥

CrEd 2.56.11cd–12

Kausalya

Sanskrit

पुत्रशोकार्तया तत् तु मया किम् अपि भाषितम् शोको नाशयते धैर्यं शोको नाशयते श्रुतम् शोको नाशयते सर्वं नास्ति शोकसमो रिपुः ॥

putraśokārtayā tat tu mayā kim api bhāṣitam śoko nāśayate dhairyaṃ śoko nāśayate śrutam śoko nāśayate sarvaṃ nāsti śokasamo ripuḥ

English

Stricken with grief for my son,
I said what I said.
Grief destroys steadfastness,
grief destroys learning,
grief destroys all things;
there is no foe like grief.

॥ 2.62.18–19 ॥

CrEd 2.56.14–15

Kausalya

Sanskrit

वनवासाय रामस्य पञ्चरात्रोऽद्य गण्यते यः शोकहतहर्षायाः पञ्चवर्षोपमो मम तं हि चिन्तयमानायाः शोकोऽयं हृदि वर्धते नदीनाम् इव वेगेन समुद्रसलिलं महत् ॥

vanavāsāya rāmasya pañcarātro 'dya gaṇyate yaḥ śokahataharṣāyāḥ pañcavarṣopamo mama taṃ hi cintayamānāyāḥ śoko 'yaṃ hṛdi vardhate nadīnām iva vegena samudrasalilaṃ mahat

English

For Rama’s dwelling in the forest
this is counted the fifth night;
to me, whose joy grief has slain,
it is as five years long.
As I think of him, this grief
grows within my heart,
as with the rivers’ rushing
swells the great water of the sea.

॥ 2.62.20–21 ॥

CrEd 2.56.16–17

silent moment

॥ 2.62.21 ॥

CrEd 2.56.17

silent moment

॥ 2.63.1–4 ॥

CrEd 2.57.1–3

silent moment

॥ 2.63.6 ॥

CrEd 2.57.4

Dasharatha

Sanskrit

यद् आचरति कल्याणि शुभं वा यदि वाशुभम् तद् एव लभते भद्रे कर्ता कर्मजम् आत्मनः ॥

yad ācarati kalyāṇi śubhaṃ vā yadi vāśubham tad eva labhate bhadre kartā karmajam ātmanaḥ

English

Whatever one does, good lady,
be it fair or be it foul,
that very thing, dear one, the doer reaps,
the fruit born of his own deed.

॥ 2.63.8, 10 ॥

CrEd 2.57.6–7

condensed from 2.63.8, 10

Dasharatha

Sanskrit

कश् चिद् आम्रवणं छित्त्वा पलाशांश् च निषिञ्चति पुष्पं दृष्ट्वा फले गृध्नुः … सोऽहम् आम्रवणं छित्त्वा पलाशांश् च न्यषेचयम् रामं फलागमे त्यक्त्वा पश्चाच् छोचामि दुर्मतिः ॥

kaś cid āmravaṇaṃ chittvā palāśāṃś ca niṣiñcati puṣpaṃ dṛṣṭvā phale gṛdhnuḥ … so 'ham āmravaṇaṃ chittvā palāśāṃś ca nyaṣecayam rāmaṃ phalāgame tyaktvā paścāc chocāmi durmatiḥ

English

One cuts down a mango grove
and waters the palasha trees;
seeing the flowers, he longs for fruit.
So I, having felled the mango grove,
watered the palasha trees;
I gave up Rama when the fruit was coming,
and now, a fool, I grieve.

॥ 2.63.11–12a ॥

CrEd 2.57.8

Dasharatha

Sanskrit

लब्धशब्देन कौसल्ये कुमारेण धनुष्मता कुमारः शब्दवेधीति मया पापम् इदं कृतम् तद् इदं मेऽनुसंप्राप्तं देवि दुःखं स्वयं कृतम् ॥

labdhaśabdena kausalye kumāreṇa dhanuṣmatā kumāraḥ śabdavedhīti mayā pāpam idaṃ kṛtam tad idaṃ me 'nusaṃprāptaṃ devi duḥkhaṃ svayaṃ kṛtam

English

A prince with a bow, Kausalya,
I had won a name:
‘The prince shoots by sound.’
And so I did this sin.
Now it has come home to me, my queen,
this grief of my own making.

॥ 2.63.14 ॥

CrEd 2.57.10

Dasharatha

Sanskrit

देव्य् अनूढा त्वम् अभवो युवराजो भवाम्य् अहम् ततः प्रावृड् अनुप्राप्ता मदकामविवर्धिनी ॥

devy anūḍhā tvam abhavo yuvarājo bhavāmy aham tataḥ prāvṛḍ anuprāptā madakāmavivardhinī

English

You were not yet wed, my queen;
I was Prince Regent then.
Then the rains came on,
the season that swells desire.

॥ 2.63.14 ॥

CrEd 2.57.10

silent moment

Part 2 · பகுதி 2

The sound in the water

Valmiki 2.63.15–56; 2.64.19 (CrEd 2.57.11–39; 2.58.16)

॥ 2.63.15–16 ॥

CrEd 2.57.11–12

Valmikiverse caption

Sanskrit

उपास्य हि रसान् भौमांस् तप्त्वा च जगद् अंशुभिः ।
परेताचरितां भीमां रविर् आविशते दिशम् ।
उष्णम् अन्तर्दधे सद्यः स्निग्धा ददृशिरे घनाः ।
ततो जहृषिरे सर्वे भेकसारङ्गबर्हिणः ॥

upāsya hi rasān bhaumāṃs taptvā ca jagad aṃśubhiḥ
paretācaritāṃ bhīmāṃ ravir āviśate diśam
uṣṇam antardadhe sadyaḥ snigdhā dadṛśire ghanāḥ
tato jahṛṣire sarve bhekasāraṅgabarhiṇaḥ

English

Having drunk the juices of the earth
and scorched the world with his rays,
the sun entered the dread quarter
where the departed go.
At once the heat was hidden;
dark, heavy clouds appeared;
and all rejoiced, the frogs,
the rain-birds and the peacocks.

॥ 2.63.21–22 ॥

CrEd 2.57.14–15

condensed from 2.63.21–22

Dasharatha

Sanskrit

तस्मिन्न् अतिसुखे काले धनुष्मान् इषुमान् रथी व्यायामकृतसंकल्पः सरयूम् अन्वगां नदीम् निपाने महिषं रात्रौ गजं वाभ्यागतं नदीम् … जिघांसुर् अजितेन्द्रियः ॥

tasminn atisukhe kāle dhanuṣmān iṣumān rathī vyāyāmakṛtasaṃkalpaḥ sarayūm anvagāṃ nadīm nipāne mahiṣaṃ rātrau gajaṃ vābhyāgataṃ nadīm … jighāṃsur ajitendriyaḥ

English

In that most pleasant season,
with bow and arrows, in my chariot,
bent on the hunt’s exercise,
I went along the Sarayu,
for a buffalo at the watering place by night,
or an elephant come to the river,
eager to kill, my senses unmastered.

॥ 2.63.24 ॥

CrEd 2.57.16

silent moment

॥ 2.63.24–25a ॥

CrEd 2.57.16

Dasharatha

Sanskrit

अथान्धकारे त्व् अश्रौषं जले कुम्भस्य पर्यतः अचक्षुर् विषये घोषं वारणस्येव नर्दतः ॥

athāndhakāre tv aśrauṣaṃ jale kumbhasya paryataḥ acakṣur viṣaye ghoṣaṃ vāraṇasyeva nardataḥ

English

Then in the darkness I heard,
in the water, a pot filling,
a sound beyond the reach of sight,
like an elephant trumpeting.

॥ 2.63.25b–27a ॥

CrEd 2.57.17–18a

silent moment

॥ 2.63.27b–29 ॥

CrEd 2.57.18–19

Ascetic

Sanskrit

हा हेति पततस् तोये वाग् अभूत् तत्र मानुषी कथम् अस्मद्विधे शस्त्रं निपतेत् तु तपस्विनि प्रविविक्तां नदीं रात्राव् उदाहारोऽहम् आगतः इषुणाभिहतः केन कस्य वा किं कृतं मया ॥

hā heti patatas toye vāg abhūt tatra mānuṣī katham asmadvidhe śastraṃ nipatet tu tapasvini praviviktāṃ nadīṃ rātrāv udāhāro 'ham āgataḥ iṣuṇābhihataḥ kena kasya vā kiṃ kṛtaṃ mayā

English

‘Ah! Ah!’ as he fell into the water,
a human voice arose there:
‘How should a weapon fall
on an ascetic such as I?
To the lonely river, by night,
I came to draw water.
Who has struck me with an arrow?
What wrong have I done, and to whom?’

॥ 2.63.33–34 ॥

CrEd 2.57.23–24

Ascetic

Sanskrit

नेमं तथानुशोचामि जीवितक्षयम् आत्मनः मातरं पितरं चोभाव् अनुशोचामि मद्विधे तद् एतन् मिथुनं वृद्धं चिरकालभृतं मया मयि पञ्चत्वम् आपन्ने कां वृत्तिं वर्तयिष्यति ॥

nemaṃ tathānuśocāmi jīvitakṣayam ātmanaḥ mātaraṃ pitaraṃ cobhāv anuśocāmi madvidhe tad etan mithunaṃ vṛddhaṃ cirakālabhṛtaṃ mayā mayi pañcatvam āpanne kāṃ vṛttiṃ vartayiṣyati

English

I do not grieve so
for the ending of my life;
for my mother and my father both
I grieve, now I am thus.
This aged pair, so long
sustained by me:
when I have gone to death,
how will they live?

॥ 2.63.36 ॥

CrEd 2.57.26

silent moment

॥ 2.63.38 ॥

CrEd 2.57.27

silent moment

॥ 2.63.40–42 ॥

CrEd 2.57.28–30

Ascetic

Sanskrit

किं तवापकृतं राजन् वने निवसता मया जिहीर्षुर् अम्भो गुर्वर्थं यद् अहं ताडितस् त्वया एकेन खलु बाणेन मर्मण्य् अभिहते मयि द्वाव् अन्धौ निहतौ वृद्धौ माता जनयिता च मे ॥

kiṃ tavāpakṛtaṃ rājan vane nivasatā mayā jihīrṣur ambho gurvarthaṃ yad ahaṃ tāḍitas tvayā ekena khalu bāṇena marmaṇy abhihate mayi dvāv andhau nihatau vṛddhau mātā janayitā ca me

English

What wrong did I do you, king,
I who dwell in the forest,
that you struck me down as I went
to fetch water for my elders?
With a single arrow,
striking me in a vital place,
you have slain two, blind and old:
my mother and my father.

॥ 2.63.43–44 ॥

CrEd 2.57.31–32

condensed from 2.63.43–44

Ascetic

Sanskrit

तौ नूनं दुर्बलाव् अन्धौ मत्प्रतीक्षौ पिपासितौ चिरम् आशाकृतां तृष्णां कष्टां संधारयिष्यतः … पिता यन् मां न जानाति शयानं पतितं भुवि ॥

tau nūnaṃ durbalāv andhau matpratīkṣau pipāsitau ciram āśākṛtāṃ tṛṣṇāṃ kaṣṭāṃ saṃdhārayiṣyataḥ … pitā yan māṃ na jānāti śayānaṃ patitaṃ bhuvi

English

Surely those two, weak and blind,
waiting for me, athirst,
will long endure their bitter thirst,
a thirst that hope sustains.
My father does not know
that I lie fallen on the ground.

॥ 2.63.46–47 ॥

CrEd 2.57.34–35

Ascetic

Sanskrit

पितुस् त्वम् एव मे गत्वा शीघ्रम् आचक्ष्व राघव न त्वाम् अनुदहेत् क्रुद्धो वनं वह्निर् इवैधितः इयम् एकपदी राजन् यतो मे पितुर् आश्रमः तं प्रसादय गत्वा त्वं न त्वां स कुपितः शपेत् ॥

pitus tvam eva me gatvā śīghram ācakṣva rāghava na tvām anudahet kruddho vanaṃ vahnir ivaidhitaḥ iyam ekapadī rājan yato me pitur āśramaḥ taṃ prasādaya gatvā tvaṃ na tvāṃ sa kupitaḥ śapet

English

Go yourself to my father,
tell him quickly, Raghava,
lest in his wrath he burn you,
as a blazing fire a forest.
This footpath, king, leads
to my father’s hermitage;
go and win his grace,
lest in anger he should curse you.

॥ 2.63.48 ॥

CrEd 2.57.36

Ascetic

Sanskrit

विशल्यं कुरु मां राजन् मर्म मे निशितः शरः रुणद्धि मृदु सोत्सेधं तीरम् अम्बुरयो यथा ॥

viśalyaṃ kuru māṃ rājan marma me niśitaḥ śaraḥ ruṇaddhi mṛdu sotsedhaṃ tīram amburayo yathā

English

Draw out the arrow, king;
the sharp shaft presses on my heart,
as a river’s flood presses
on a soft and lofty bank.

॥ 2.63.55; 2.64.19a ॥

CrEd 2.57.38; 2.58.16a

Valmikiverse caption

Sanskrit

इतीव वदतः कृच्छ्राद् बाणाभिहतमर्मणः ।
तस्य त्व् आनम्यमानस्य तं बाणम् अहम् उद्धरम् ।
स चोद्धृतेन बाणेन तत्रैव स्वर्गम् आस्थितः ॥

itīva vadataḥ kṛcchrād bāṇābhihatamarmaṇaḥ
tasya tv ānamyamānasya taṃ bāṇam aham uddharam
sa coddhṛtena bāṇena tatraiva svargam āsthitaḥ

English

As he spoke thus, in pain,
his vital part pierced by the arrow,
writhing as he was, I drew
that arrow from him.
And with the arrow drawn,
he went to heaven there and then.

॥ 2.63.56 ॥

CrEd 2.57.39

silent moment

Part 3 · பகுதி 3

Birds with clipped wings

Valmiki 2.64.2–55 (CrEd 2.58.1–46)

॥ 2.64.2–3 ॥

CrEd 2.58.1–2

silent moment

॥ 2.64.4–5a ॥

CrEd 2.58.3–4ab

Dasharatha

Sanskrit

तत्राहं दुर्बलाव् अन्धौ वृद्धाव् अपरिणायकौ अपश्यं तस्य पितरौ लूनपक्षाव् इव द्विजौ तन्निमित्ताभिर् आसीनौ कथाभिर् अपरिक्रमौ ॥

tatrāhaṃ durbalāv andhau vṛddhāv apariṇāyakau apaśyaṃ tasya pitarau lūnapakṣāv iva dvijau tannimittābhir āsīnau kathābhir aparikramau

English

There I saw, weak and blind,
old, with none to lead them,
his father and his mother,
like birds with clipped wings,
sitting, with talk of him,
unable to move about.

॥ 2.64.5 ॥

CrEd 2.58.4

silent moment

॥ 2.64.7–8 ॥

CrEd 2.58.5–6

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Sanskrit

किं चिरायसि मे पुत्र पानीयं क्षिप्रम् आनय यन्निमित्तम् इदं तात सलिले क्रीडितं त्वया उत्कण्ठिता ते मातेयं प्रविश क्षिप्रम् आश्रमम् ॥

kiṃ cirāyasi me putra pānīyaṃ kṣipram ānaya yannimittam idaṃ tāta salile krīḍitaṃ tvayā utkaṇṭhitā te māteyaṃ praviśa kṣipram āśramam

English

Why do you linger, my son?
Bring the water, quickly.
Why, child, have you played
so long in the water?
Your mother here is longing for you;
come quickly into the hermitage.

॥ 2.64.9 ॥

CrEd 2.58.7

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Sanskrit

यद् व्यलीकं कृतं पुत्र मात्रा ते यदि वा मया न तन् मनसि कर्तव्यं त्वया तात तपस्विना ॥

yad vyalīkaṃ kṛtaṃ putra mātrā te yadi vā mayā na tan manasi kartavyaṃ tvayā tāta tapasvinā

English

If any wrong was done you, son,
by your mother or by me,
do not keep it in your mind,
child, you who are an ascetic.

॥ 2.64.10 ॥

CrEd 2.58.8

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Sanskrit

त्वं गतिस् त्व् अगतीनां च चक्षुस् त्वं हीनचक्षुषाम् समासक्तास् त्वयि प्राणाः किं चिन् नौ नाभिभाषसे ॥

tvaṃ gatis tv agatīnāṃ ca cakṣus tvaṃ hīnacakṣuṣām samāsaktās tvayi prāṇāḥ kiṃ cin nau nābhibhāṣase

English

You are the way of those with no way,
the eyes of those with no eyes;
our lives are bound to you:
why do you not speak to us?

॥ 2.64.13, 15 ॥

CrEd 2.58.11, 13

condensed from 2.64.13, 15

Dasharatha

Sanskrit

क्षत्रियोऽहं दशरथो नाहं पुत्रो महात्मनः … तत्र श्रुतो मया शब्दो जले कुम्भस्य पूर्यतः द्विपोऽयम् इति मत्वा हि बाणेनाभिहतो मया ॥

kṣatriyo 'haṃ daśaratho nāhaṃ putro mahātmanaḥ … tatra śruto mayā śabdo jale kumbhasya pūryataḥ dvipo 'yam iti matvā hi bāṇenābhihato mayā

English

I am a kshatriya, Dasharatha;
I am not the great one’s son.
There I heard a sound,
a pot filling in the water;
‘This is an elephant,’ I thought,
and with an arrow struck.

॥ 2.64.20 ॥

CrEd 2.58.17

Dasharatha

Sanskrit

अज्ञानाद् भवतः पुत्रः सहसाभिहतो मया शेषम् एवंगते यत् स्यात् तत् प्रसीदतु मे मुनिः ॥

ajñānād bhavataḥ putraḥ sahasābhihato mayā śeṣam evaṃgate yat syāt tat prasīdatu me muniḥ

English

In ignorance, in haste,
I struck down your son.
Now that it has come to this,
whatever remains, may the sage be gracious.

॥ 2.64.21–22 ॥

CrEd 2.58.18

silent moment

॥ 2.64.26a, 27 ॥

CrEd 2.58.21a, 22

condensed from 2.64.26a, 27

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Sanskrit

अज्ञानाद् धि कृतं यस्माद् इदं तेनैव जीवसि … नय नौ नृप तं देशम् इति मां चाभ्यभाषत अद्य तं द्रष्टुम् इच्छावः पुत्रं पश्चिमदर्शनम् ॥

ajñānād dhi kṛtaṃ yasmād idaṃ tenaiva jīvasi … naya nau nṛpa taṃ deśam iti māṃ cābhyabhāṣata adya taṃ draṣṭum icchāvaḥ putraṃ paścimadarśanam

English

Because this was done unknowing,
for that alone you live.
‘Lead us to that place, O king,’
so he spoke to me;
‘today we would see our son,
a last sight of him.’

॥ 2.64.29–30 ॥

CrEd 2.58.24–25

silent moment

॥ 2.64.31 ॥

CrEd 2.58.26

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Sanskrit

न न्व् अहं ते प्रियः पुत्र मातरं पश्य धार्मिक किं नु नालिङ्गसे पुत्र सुकुमार वचो वद ॥

na nv ahaṃ te priyaḥ putra mātaraṃ paśya dhārmika kiṃ nu nāliṅgase putra sukumāra vaco vada

English

Am I not dear to you, my son?
Look at your mother, righteous one.
Why will you not embrace me, son?
Speak a word, my tender one.

॥ 2.64.37 ॥

CrEd 2.58.31

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Sanskrit

तिष्ठ मा मा गमः पुत्र यमस्य सदनं प्रति श्वो मया सह गन्तासि जनन्या च समेधितः ॥

tiṣṭha mā mā gamaḥ putra yamasya sadanaṃ prati śvo mayā saha gantāsi jananyā ca samedhitaḥ

English

Stay, son, do not go,
do not go to Yama’s house;
tomorrow you shall go with me,
your mother at your side.

॥ 2.64.47 ॥

CrEd 2.58.39

silent moment

॥ 2.64.50 ॥

CrEd 2.58.41

Ascetic

Sanskrit

स्थानम् अस्मि महत् प्राप्तो भवतोः परिचारणात् भवन्ताव् अपि च क्षिप्रं मम मूलम् उपैष्यतः ॥

sthānam asmi mahat prāpto bhavatoḥ paricāraṇāt bhavantāv api ca kṣipraṃ mama mūlam upaiṣyataḥ

English

I have reached a lofty place
for the service I gave you both;
and you two also, soon,
will come to me.

॥ 2.64.51 ॥

CrEd 2.58.42

Valmikiverse caption

Sanskrit

एवम् उक्त्वा तु दिव्येन विमानेन वपुष्मता ।
आरुरोह दिवं क्षिप्रं मुनिपुत्रो जितेन्द्रियः ॥

evam uktvā tu divyena vimānena vapuṣmatā
āruroha divaṃ kṣipraṃ muniputro jitendriyaḥ

English

So saying, in a divine
and shining chariot,
the sage’s son, master of himself,
swiftly rose to heaven.

॥ 2.64.52–53 ॥

CrEd 2.58.43–44

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Sanskrit

अद्यैव जहि मां राजन् मरणे नास्ति मे व्यथा यच् छरेणैकपुत्रं मां त्वम् अकार्षीर् अपुत्रकम् ॥

adyaiva jahi māṃ rājan maraṇe nāsti me vyathā yac chareṇaikaputraṃ māṃ tvam akārṣīr aputrakam

English

Slay me this very day, O king;
I feel no pain in dying,
for with an arrow you have made me,
who had one son, sonless.

॥ 2.64.54–55 ॥

CrEd 2.58.45–46

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Sanskrit

त्वया तु यद् अविज्ञानान् निहतो मे सुतः शुचिः तेन त्वाम् अभिशप्स्यामि सुदुःखम् अतिदारुणम् पुत्रव्यसनजं दुःखं यद् एतन् मम साम्प्रतम् एवं त्वं पुत्रशोकेन राजन् कालं करिष्यसि ॥

tvayā tu yad avijñānān nihato me sutaḥ śuciḥ tena tvām abhiśapsyāmi suduḥkham atidāruṇam putravyasanajaṃ duḥkhaṃ yad etan mama sāmpratam evaṃ tvaṃ putraśokena rājan kālaṃ kariṣyasi

English

Since unknowing you have slain
my son, the pure one,
I lay on you a curse,
a sorrow most cruel and hard.
The grief born of a son’s loss
that now is mine:
even so, through grief for a son,
O king, you too shall die.

॥ 2.64.52 ॥

CrEd 2.58.43

silent moment

Part 4 · பகுதி 4

Grief for a son

Valmiki 2.64.61–79; 2.65.1–23 (CrEd 2.58.47–57; 2.59.1–10)

॥ 2.64.61 ॥

CrEd 2.58.47

silent moment

॥ 2.64.61 ॥

CrEd 2.58.47

Dasharatha

Sanskrit

तस्मान् माम् आगतं भद्रे तस्योदारस्य तद्वचः यद् अहं पुत्रशोकेन संत्यक्ष्याम्य् अद्य जीवितम् ॥

tasmān mām āgataṃ bhadre tasyodārasya tadvacaḥ yad ahaṃ putraśokena saṃtyakṣyāmy adya jīvitam

English

And so, dear one, it has come to me,
that noble sage’s word,
that I, in grief for my son,
today shall give up my life.

॥ 2.64.65a, 63a ॥

CrEd 2.58.48

Dasharatha

Sanskrit

यदि मां संस्पृशेद् रामः सकृद् अद्यालभेत वा न तन् मे सदृशं देवि यन् मया राघवे कृतम् ॥

yadi māṃ saṃspṛśed rāmaḥ sakṛd adyālabheta vā na tan me sadṛśaṃ devi yan mayā rāghave kṛtam

English

If Rama would but touch me,
once, today, or hold me!
It was not worthy of me, my queen,
what I have done to Raghava.

॥ 2.64.66 ॥

CrEd 2.58.49

Dasharatha

Sanskrit

चक्षुषा त्वां न पश्यामि स्मृतिर् मम विलुप्यते दूता वैवस्वतस्यैते कौसल्ये त्वरयन्ति माम् ॥

cakṣuṣā tvāṃ na paśyāmi smṛtir mama vilupyate dūtā vaivasvatasyaite kausalye tvarayanti mām

English

I cannot see you with my eyes;
my memory is slipping away.
These are Yama’s messengers, Kausalya;
they are hurrying me.

॥ 2.64.67, 70 ॥

CrEd 2.58.50, 52

condensed from 2.64.67, 70

Dasharatha

Sanskrit

अतस् तु किं दुःखतरं यद् अहं जीवितक्षये न हि पश्यामि धर्मज्ञं रामं सत्यपराक्रमम् … पद्मपत्रेक्षणं सुभ्रु सुदंष्ट्रं चारुनासिकम् धन्या द्रक्ष्यन्ति रामस्य ताराधिपनिभं मुखम् ॥

atas tu kiṃ duḥkhataraṃ yad ahaṃ jīvitakṣaye na hi paśyāmi dharmajñaṃ rāmaṃ satyaparākramam … padmapatrekṣaṇaṃ subhru sudaṃṣṭraṃ cārunāsikam dhanyā drakṣyanti rāmasya tārādhipanibhaṃ mukham

English

What grief could be greater than this,
that at my life’s ending
I do not see Rama, who knows dharma,
Rama, true in his valour?
Lotus-petal eyes, fair brows,
fine teeth, a lovely nose:
blessed are they who will see Rama’s face,
bright as the lord of the stars.

॥ 2.64.75 ॥

CrEd 2.58.55

Dasharatha

Sanskrit

अयम् आत्मभवः शोको माम् अनाथम् अचेतनम् संसादयति वेगेन यथा कूलं नदीरयः ॥

ayam ātmabhavaḥ śoko mām anātham acetanam saṃsādayati vegena yathā kūlaṃ nadīrayaḥ

English

This grief, born of my own self,
me, helpless and senseless,
sweeps down in its rush,
as a river’s flood its bank.

॥ 2.64.76a ॥

CrEd 2.58.56ab

Dasharatha

Sanskrit

हा राघव महाबाहो हा ममायासनाशन ॥

hā rāghava mahābāho hā mamāyāsanāśana

English

Ah, Raghava, mighty-armed!
Ah, you who ended all my weariness!

॥ 2.64.78–79 ॥

CrEd 2.58.56cd–57

Valmikiverse caption

Sanskrit

राजा दशरथः शोचञ् जीवितान्तम् उपागमत् ।
तथा तु दीनं कथयन् नराधिपः प्रियस्य पुत्रस्य विवासनातुरः ।
गतेऽर्धरात्रे भृशदुःखपीडितस् तदा जहौ प्राणम् उदारदर्शनः ॥

rājā daśarathaḥ śocañ jīvitāntam upāgamat
tathā tu dīnaṃ kathayan narādhipaḥ priyasya putrasya vivāsanāturaḥ
gate 'rdharātre bhṛśaduḥkhapīḍitas tadā jahau prāṇam udāradarśanaḥ

English

Grieving so, King Dasharatha
came to the end of his life.
So, speaking piteously, the lord of men,
sick at his dear son’s exile,
when midnight had gone, sore with grief,
gave up his breath, the king of noble face.

॥ 2.65.1 ॥

CrEd 2.59.1a

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॥ 2.65.1, 7–8 ॥

CrEd 2.59.1–3

Valmikiverse caption

Sanskrit

अथ रात्र्यां व्यतीतायां प्रातर् एवापरेऽहनि ।
बन्दिनः पर्युपातिष्ठंस् तत् पार्थिवनिवेशनम् ।
ततः शुचिसमाचाराः पर्युपस्थानकोविदाः ।
स्त्रीवर्षवरभूयिष्ठा उपतस्थुर् यथापुरम् ।
हरिचन्दनसंपृक्तम् उदकं काञ्चनैर् घटैः ।
आनिन्युः स्नानशिक्षाज्ञा यथाकालं यथाविधि ॥

atha rātryāṃ vyatītāyāṃ prātar evāpare 'hani
bandinaḥ paryupātiṣṭhaṃs tat pārthivaniveśanam
tataḥ śucisamācārāḥ paryupasthānakovidāḥ
strīvarṣavarabhūyiṣṭhā upatasthur yathāpuram
haricandanasaṃpṛktam udakaṃ kāñcanair ghaṭaiḥ
āninyuḥ snānaśikṣājñā yathākālaṃ yathāvidhi

English

When the night had passed,
at dawn on the next day,
the bards came to attend
upon the palace of the king.
Then, pure in their ways,
skilled in their service,
women and eunuchs most of them,
the attendants came as before.
Water mixed with yellow sandal,
in golden pots,
they brought, who knew the bath’s rules,
in due time, by due rite.

॥ 2.65.12–16 ॥

CrEd 2.59.5–7

silent moment

॥ 2.65.20–23 ॥

CrEd 2.59.8–10

Valmikiverse caption

Sanskrit

ततः प्रचुक्रुशुर् दीनाः सस्वरं ता वराङ्गनाः ।
करेणव इवारण्ये स्थानप्रच्युतयूथपाः ।
तासाम् आक्रन्दशब्देन सहसोद्गतचेतने ।
कौसल्या च सुमित्रा च त्यक्तनिद्रे बभूवतुः ।
कौसल्या च सुमित्रा च दृष्ट्वा स्पृष्ट्वा च पार्थिवम् ।
हा नाथेति परिक्रुश्य पेततुर् धरणीतले ॥

tataḥ pracukruśur dīnāḥ sasvaraṃ tā varāṅganāḥ
kareṇava ivāraṇye sthānapracyutayūthapāḥ
tāsām ākrandaśabdena sahasodgatacetane
kausalyā ca sumitrā ca tyaktanidre babhūvatuḥ
kausalyā ca sumitrā ca dṛṣṭvā spṛṣṭvā ca pārthivam
hā nātheti parikruśya petatur dharaṇītale

English

Then those fair women, stricken,
cried aloud, wailing,
like she-elephants in the forest
whose leader has fallen from his place.
At the sound of their wailing,
their senses suddenly roused,
Kausalya and Sumitra
woke from their sleep.
Kausalya and Sumitra, seeing the king,
touching him,
cried out, ‘Ah, lord!’
and fell upon the ground.

॥ 2.65.8 ॥

CrEd 2.59.3

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