The silent city
॥ 2.71.17b–19a ॥
CrEd 2.65.13–14
Valmikiverse caption
Sanskrit
वनं च समतीत्याशु शर्वर्याम् अरुणोदये ।
अयोध्यां मनुना राज्ञा निर्मितां स ददर्श ह ।
तां पुरीं पुरुषव्याघ्रः सप्तरात्रोषितः पथि ।
अयोध्याम् अग्रतो दृष्ट्वा रथे सारथिम् अब्रवीत् ॥
vanaṃ ca samatītyāśu śarvaryām aruṇodaye
ayodhyāṃ manunā rājñā nirmitāṃ sa dadarśa ha
tāṃ purīṃ puruṣavyāghraḥ saptarātroṣitaḥ pathi
ayodhyām agrato dṛṣṭvā rathe sārathim abravīt
English
Crossing the forest swiftly,
at the flush of dawn, as night was ending,
he saw Ayodhya, the city
that Manu the king had built.
That city the tiger among men,
seven nights upon the road,
seeing Ayodhya before him,
spoke to the charioteer in the chariot.
॥ 2.71.19b–20a, 21b–22a ॥
CrEd 2.65.15, 17
Bharata
Sanskrit
एषा नातिप्रतीता मे पुण्योद्याना यशस्विनी अयोध्या दृश्यते दूरात् सारथे पाण्डुमृत्तिका … अयोध्यायां पुराशब्दः श्रूयते तुमुलो महान् समन्तान् नरनारीणां तम् अद्य न शृणोम्य् अहम् ॥
eṣā nātipratītā me puṇyodyānā yaśasvinī ayodhyā dṛśyate dūrāt sārathe pāṇḍumṛttikā … ayodhyāyāṃ purāśabdaḥ śrūyate tumulo mahān samantān naranārīṇāṃ tam adya na śṛṇomy aham
English
This city seems not glad to me,
with its holy gardens, famed:
Ayodhya, seen from afar, charioteer,
with its pale white earth.
In Ayodhya once a sound was heard,
a great and swelling roar
of men and women all around;
today I do not hear it.
॥ 2.71.24b–25a ॥
CrEd 2.65.20
silent moment
॥ 2.71.23b–24a ॥
CrEd 2.65.19
Bharata
Sanskrit
तान्य् अद्यानुरुदन्तीव परित्यक्तानि कामिभिः अरण्यभूतेव पुरी सारथे प्रतिभाति मे ॥
tāny adyānurudantīva parityaktāni kāmibhiḥ araṇyabhūteva purī sārathe pratibhāti me
English
Today, forsaken by their lovers,
they seem to weep, those gardens;
like a wilderness the city
appears to me, charioteer.
॥ 2.71.46–47; 2.72.1 ॥
CrEd 2.65.27–28; 2.66.1
Valmikiverse caption
Sanskrit
तां शून्यशृङ्गाटकवेश्मरथ्यां रजोऽरुणद्वारकपाटयन्त्राम् ।
दृष्ट्वा पुरीम् इन्द्रपुरीप्रकाशां दुःखेन संपूर्णतरो बभूव ।
बहूनि पश्यन् मनसोऽप्रियाणि यान्य् अन्यदा नास्य पुरे बभूवुः ।
अवाक्शिरा दीनमना न हृष्टः पितुर् महात्मा प्रविवेश वेश्म ।
अपश्यंस् तु ततस् तत्र पितरं पितुर् आलये ।
जगाम भरतो द्रष्टुं मातरं मातुर् आलये ॥
tāṃ śūnyaśṛṅgāṭakaveśmarathyāṃ rajo'ruṇadvārakapāṭayantrām
dṛṣṭvā purīm indrapurīprakāśāṃ duḥkhena saṃpūrṇataro babhūva
bahūni paśyan manaso 'priyāṇi yāny anyadā nāsya pure babhūvuḥ
avākśirā dīnamanā na hṛṣṭaḥ pitur mahātmā praviveśa veśma
apaśyaṃs tu tatas tatra pitaraṃ pitur ālaye
jagāma bharato draṣṭuṃ mātaraṃ mātur ālaye
English
Its squares and houses and streets all empty,
the doors and bars of its gates red with dust:
seeing the city, bright as Indra’s city,
he was filled the fuller with grief.
Seeing much that pained his mind,
such as his city had never known,
head bowed, downcast, joyless,
the great-souled one entered his father’s house.
Not seeing his father there,
there in his father’s house,
Bharata went to see his mother,
there in his mother’s house.
॥ 2.72.2–4 ॥
CrEd 2.66.2–4
Valmikiverse caption
Sanskrit
अनुप्राप्तं तु तं दृष्ट्वा कैकेयी प्रोषितं सुतम् ।
उत्पपात तदा हृष्टा त्यक्त्वा सौवर्णम् आसनम् ।
स प्रविश्यैव धर्मात्मा स्वगृहं श्रीविवर्जितम् ।
भरतः प्रेक्ष्य जग्राह जनन्याश् चरणौ शुभौ ।
तं मूर्ध्नि समुपाघ्राय परिष्वज्य यशस्विनम् ।
अङ्के भरतम् आरोप्य प्रष्टुं समुपचक्रमे ॥
anuprāptaṃ tu taṃ dṛṣṭvā kaikeyī proṣitaṃ sutam
utpapāta tadā hṛṣṭā tyaktvā sauvarṇam āsanam
sa praviśyaiva dharmātmā svagṛhaṃ śrīvivarjitam
bharataḥ prekṣya jagrāha jananyāś caraṇau śubhau
taṃ mūrdhni samupāghrāya pariṣvajya yaśasvinam
aṅke bharatam āropya praṣṭuṃ samupacakrame
English
Seeing him arrived,
her son from far away, Kaikeyi
sprang up then, glad,
leaving her golden seat.
And entering, the righteous one,
his own house, its splendour gone,
Bharata saw her, and took hold of
his mother’s lovely feet.
She breathed upon his head,
embraced the glorious one,
set Bharata upon her lap,
and so began to ask.
॥ 2.72.5–6 ॥
CrEd 2.66.5–6
Kaikeyi
Sanskrit
अद्य ते कति चिद् रात्र्यश् च्युतस्यार्यकवेश्मनः अपि नाध्वश्रमः शीघ्रं रथेनापततस् तव आर्यकस् ते सुकुशलो युधाजिन् मातुलस् तव प्रवासाच् च सुखं पुत्र सर्वं मे वक्तुम् अर्हसि ॥
adya te kati cid rātryaś cyutasyāryakaveśmanaḥ api nādhvaśramaḥ śīghraṃ rathenāpatatas tava āryakas te sukuśalo yudhājin mātulas tava pravāsāc ca sukhaṃ putra sarvaṃ me vaktum arhasi
English
How many nights now, since you left
your grandfather’s house?
Are you not weary from the road,
flying so fast by chariot?
Is your grandfather well,
and Yudhajit, your uncle?
And your stay, was it happy, son?
Tell me everything.
॥ 2.72.11–13 ॥
CrEd 2.66.11–13
Bharata
Sanskrit
शून्योऽयं शयनीयस् ते पर्यङ्को हेमभूषितः … राजा भवति भूयिष्ठम् इहाम्बाया निवेशने तम् अहं नाद्य पश्यामि द्रष्टुम् इच्छन्न् इहागतः पितुर् ग्रहीष्ये चरणौ तं ममाख्याहि पृच्छतः आहोस्विद् अम्ब ज्येष्ठायाः कौसल्याया निवेशने ॥
śūnyo 'yaṃ śayanīyas te paryaṅko hemabhūṣitaḥ … rājā bhavati bhūyiṣṭham ihāmbāyā niveśane tam ahaṃ nādya paśyāmi draṣṭum icchann ihāgataḥ pitur grahīṣye caraṇau taṃ mamākhyāhi pṛcchataḥ āhosvid amba jyeṣṭhāyāḥ kausalyāyā niveśane
English
Empty is this bed of yours,
the couch adorned with gold.
The king is mostly here,
in my mother’s house;
I do not see him today,
though I came here longing to see him.
I will take my father’s feet:
tell me, I ask you.
Or is he, mother, in the house
of Kausalya, the eldest?
॥ 2.72.14–15a ॥
CrEd 2.66.14
Kaikeyi
Sanskrit
या गतिः सर्वभूतानां तां गतिं ते पिता गतः ॥
yā gatiḥ sarvabhūtānāṃ tāṃ gatiṃ te pitā gataḥ
English
The way of all beings,
that way your father has gone.
॥ 2.72.16 ॥
CrEd 2.66.15
silent moment
॥ 2.72.19a, 20a ॥
CrEd 2.66.17
Bharata
Sanskrit
एतत् सुरुचिरं भाति पितुर् मे शयनं पुरा तद् इदं न विभात्य् अद्य विहीनं तेन धीमता ॥
etat suruciraṃ bhāti pitur me śayanaṃ purā tad idaṃ na vibhāty adya vihīnaṃ tena dhīmatā
English
This bed of my father’s
once shone so fair;
today it does not shine,
bereft of that wise one.
॥ 2.72.22a, 23b–24 ॥
CrEd 2.66.18–19
Kaikeyi
Sanskrit
उत्तिष्ठोत्तिष्ठ किं शेषे राजपुत्र महायशः त्वद्विधा न हि शोचन्ति सन्तः सदसि संमताः ॥
uttiṣṭhottiṣṭha kiṃ śeṣe rājaputra mahāyaśaḥ tvadvidhā na hi śocanti santaḥ sadasi saṃmatāḥ
English
Rise, rise! Why lie there,
prince of great renown?
For such as you do not grieve,
good men, honoured in the assembly.
॥ 2.72.26 ॥
CrEd 2.66.20
silent moment
॥ 2.72.31 ॥
CrEd 2.66.25
Bharata
Sanskrit
क्व स पाणिः सुखस्पर्शस् तातस्याक्लिष्टकर्मणः येन मां रजसा ध्वस्तम् अभीक्ष्णं परिमार्जति ॥
kva sa pāṇiḥ sukhasparśas tātasyākliṣṭakarmaṇaḥ yena māṃ rajasā dhvastam abhīkṣṇaṃ parimārjati
English
Where is that hand, so kind to the touch,
of my father, tireless in his deeds,
with which, when I was grimed with dust,
he would wipe me clean, again and again?
॥ 2.72.11 ॥
CrEd 2.66.11
silent moment
For your sake
॥ 2.72.32 ॥
CrEd 2.66.26
silent moment
॥ 2.72.32–33 ॥
CrEd 2.66.26–27
Bharata
Sanskrit
यो मे भ्राता पिता बन्धुर् यस्य दासोऽस्मि धीमतः तस्य मां शीघ्रम् आख्याहि रामस्याक्लिष्टकर्मणः … तस्य पादौ ग्रहीष्यामि स हीदानीं गतिर् मम ॥
yo me bhrātā pitā bandhur yasya dāso 'smi dhīmataḥ tasya māṃ śīghram ākhyāhi rāmasyākliṣṭakarmaṇaḥ … tasya pādau grahīṣyāmi sa hīdānīṃ gatir mama
English
He who is my brother, father, kin,
the wise one whose servant I am:
tell me quickly of him,
of Rama, tireless in his deeds.
I will take hold of his feet,
for he is now my refuge.
॥ 2.72.36–38 ॥
CrEd 2.66.29–31
Kaikeyi
Sanskrit
रामेति राजा विलपन् हा सीते लक्ष्मणेति च स महात्मा परं लोकं गतो गतिमतां वरः … सिद्धार्थास् तु नरा रामम् आगतं सीतया सह लक्ष्मणं च महाबाहुं द्रक्ष्यन्ति पुनर् आगतम् ॥
rāmeti rājā vilapan hā sīte lakṣmaṇeti ca sa mahātmā paraṃ lokaṃ gato gatimatāṃ varaḥ … siddhārthās tu narā rāmam āgataṃ sītayā saha lakṣmaṇaṃ ca mahābāhuṃ drakṣyanti punar āgatam
English
Crying “Rama!”, the king,
and “Ah, Sita! Lakshmana!”,
that great soul went to the other world,
best of those who reach the goal.
“Fulfilled are the men who will see Rama
come home, and Sita with him,
and Lakshmana, the mighty-armed,
come back again.”
॥ 2.72.39–40 ॥
CrEd 2.66.32–33
silent moment
॥ 2.72.42 ॥
CrEd 2.66.35
Kaikeyi
Sanskrit
स हि राजसुतः पुत्र चीरवासा महावनम् दण्डकान् सह वैदेह्या लक्ष्मणानुचरो गतः ॥
sa hi rājasutaḥ putra cīravāsā mahāvanam daṇḍakān saha vaidehyā lakṣmaṇānucaro gataḥ
English
For that prince, my son, in bark clothes,
has gone to the great forest,
to the Dandakas, with Vaidehi,
and Lakshmana following.
॥ 2.72.44–45 ॥
CrEd 2.66.37–38
Bharata
Sanskrit
कच्चिन् न ब्राह्मणधनं हृतं रामेण कस्य चित् ।
कच्चिन् नाढ्यो दरिद्रो वा तेनापापो विहिंसितः ।
कच्चिन् न परदारान् वा राजपुत्रोऽभिमन्यते ।
कस्मात् स दण्डकारण्ये भ्रूणहेव विवासितः ॥
kaccin na brāhmaṇadhanaṃ hṛtaṃ rāmeṇa kasya cit
kaccin nāḍhyo daridro vā tenāpāpo vihiṃsitaḥ
kaccin na paradārān vā rājaputro 'bhimanyate
kasmāt sa daṇḍakāraṇye bhrūṇaheva vivāsitaḥ
English
Has Rama taken, I hope not,
a brahmin’s wealth from anyone?
Has he harmed some guiltless man,
whether rich or poor?
Does the prince, I hope not,
desire another’s wife?
Why to the Dandaka forest
was he banished, like a killer of the unborn?
॥ 2.72.48–50 ॥
CrEd 2.66.40–42
Kaikeyi
Sanskrit
न ब्राह्मणधनं किं चिद् धृतं रामेण कस्य चित् कश् चिन् नाढ्यो दरिद्रो वा तेनापापो विहिंसितः … मया तु पुत्र श्रुत्वैव रामस्यैवाभिषेचनम् याचितस् ते पिता राज्यं रामस्य च विवासनम् स स्ववृत्तिं समास्थाय पिता ते तत् तथाकरोत् ॥
na brāhmaṇadhanaṃ kiṃ cid dhṛtaṃ rāmeṇa kasya cit kaś cin nāḍhyo daridro vā tenāpāpo vihiṃsitaḥ … mayā tu putra śrutvaiva rāmasyaivābhiṣecanam yācitas te pitā rājyaṃ rāmasya ca vivāsanam sa svavṛttiṃ samāsthāya pitā te tat tathākarot
English
No brahmin’s wealth at all
did Rama take from anyone;
no guiltless man, rich or poor,
was ever harmed by him.
But I, son, the moment I heard
of Rama’s consecration,
asked your father for the kingdom,
and for Rama’s banishment.
Your father, true to his own way,
did it, even so.
॥ 2.72.51–52 ॥
CrEd 2.66.43–44
Kaikeyi
Sanskrit
तम् अपश्यन् प्रियं पुत्रं महीपालो महायशाः पुत्रशोकपरिद्यूनः पञ्चत्वम् उपपेदिवान् त्वया त्व् इदानीं धर्मज्ञ राजत्वम् अवलम्ब्यताम् त्वत्कृते हि मया सर्वम् इदम् एवंविधं कृतम् ॥
tam apaśyan priyaṃ putraṃ mahīpālo mahāyaśāḥ putraśokaparidyūnaḥ pañcatvam upapedivān tvayā tv idānīṃ dharmajña rājatvam avalambyatām tvatkṛte hi mayā sarvam idam evaṃvidhaṃ kṛtam
English
Not seeing his beloved son,
the glorious lord of the earth,
worn away by grief for his son,
returned to the five elements.
Now you, who know dharma,
take up the kingship;
for your sake I have done
all this, in this way.
॥ 2.73.1 ॥
CrEd 2.67.1
silent moment
॥ 2.73.2–3 ॥
CrEd 2.67.2–3
Bharata
Sanskrit
किं नु कार्यं हतस्येह मम राज्येन शोचतः विहीनस्याथ पित्रा च भ्रात्रा पितृसमेन च दुःखे मे दुःखम् अकरोर् व्रणे क्षारम् इवादधाः ॥
kiṃ nu kāryaṃ hatasyeha mama rājyena śocataḥ vihīnasyātha pitrā ca bhrātrā pitṛsamena ca duḥkhe me duḥkham akaror vraṇe kṣāram ivādadhāḥ
English
What use to me is a kingdom,
struck down as I am, and grieving,
bereft of my father,
and of a brother like a father?
Grief upon my grief you have laid,
like caustic on a wound.
॥ 2.73.4 ॥
CrEd 2.67.4
Bharata
Sanskrit
कुलस्य त्वम् अभावाय कालरात्रिर् इवागता अङ्गारम् उपगूह्य स्म पिता मे नावबुद्धवान् ॥
kulasya tvam abhāvāya kālarātrir ivāgatā aṅgāram upagūhya sma pitā me nāvabuddhavān
English
For the ending of this house
you came, like the night of doom;
my father held a burning coal
to his breast, and never knew.
॥ 2.74.1 ॥
CrEd 2.68.1
silent moment
॥ 2.74.15–17 ॥
CrEd 2.68.15–17
Valmikiverse caption
Sanskrit
अन्यदा किल धर्मज्ञा सुरभिः सुरसंमता ।
वहमानौ ददर्शोर्व्यां पुत्रौ विगतचेतसौ ।
ताव् अर्धदिवसे श्रान्तौ दृष्ट्वा पुत्रौ महीतले ।
रुरोद पुत्रशोकेन बाष्पपर्याकुलेक्षणा ।
अधस्ताद् व्रजतस् तस्याः सुरराज्ञो महात्मनः ।
बिन्दवः पतिता गात्रे सूक्ष्माः सुरभिगन्धिनः ॥
anyadā kila dharmajñā surabhiḥ surasaṃmatā
vahamānau dadarśorvyāṃ putrau vigatacetasau
tāv ardhadivase śrāntau dṛṣṭvā putrau mahītale
ruroda putraśokena bāṣpaparyākulekṣaṇā
adhastād vrajatas tasyāḥ surarājño mahātmanaḥ
bindavaḥ patitā gātre sūkṣmāḥ surabhigandhinaḥ
English
Once, they say, Surabhi,
knower of dharma, honoured by the gods,
saw upon the earth her two sons
straining at the yoke, their senses gone.
Seeing them spent at midday,
her two sons upon the ground,
she wept in grief for her sons,
her eyes clouded with tears.
As there passed beneath her
the great-souled king of the gods,
drops fell upon his body,
fine, and sweet with fragrance.
॥ 2.74.25 ॥
CrEd 2.68.23
Valmikiverse caption
Sanskrit
मम कायात् प्रसूतौ हि दुःखितौ भारपीडितौ ।
यौ दृष्ट्वा परितप्येऽहं नास्ति पुत्रसमः प्रियः ॥
mama kāyāt prasūtau hi duḥkhitau bhārapīḍitau
yau dṛṣṭvā paritapye 'haṃ nāsti putrasamaḥ priyaḥ
English
Born of my body are these two,
suffering, crushed beneath the load;
seeing them, I burn:
nothing is dear as a son.
॥ 2.74.28–29 ॥
CrEd 2.68.24–25
Bharata
Sanskrit
यस्याः पुत्रसहस्राणि सापि शोचति कामधुक् किं पुनर् या विना रामं कौसल्या वर्तयिष्यति एकपुत्रा च साध्वी च विवत्सेयं त्वया कृता ॥
yasyāḥ putrasahasrāṇi sāpi śocati kāmadhuk kiṃ punar yā vinā rāmaṃ kausalyā vartayiṣyati ekaputrā ca sādhvī ca vivatseyaṃ tvayā kṛtā
English
She whose sons are thousands,
even she grieves, the cow of plenty;
how much more Kausalya:
how will she live without Rama?
One son she had, and she is good,
and you have made her calfless.
॥ 2.74.30–31 ॥
CrEd 2.68.26–27
Bharata
Sanskrit
अहं ह्य् अपचितिं भ्रातुः पितुश् च सकलाम् इमाम् … करिष्यामि … आनाययित्वा तनयं कौसल्याया महाद्युतिम् स्वयम् एव प्रवेक्ष्यामि वनं मुनिनिषेवितम् ॥
ahaṃ hy apacitiṃ bhrātuḥ pituś ca sakalām imām … kariṣyāmi … ānāyayitvā tanayaṃ kausalyāyā mahādyutim svayam eva pravekṣyāmi vanaṃ muniniṣevitam
English
For I will pay my brother and my father
this debt of honour, all of it;
I will;
I will have Kausalya’s son brought home,
the son of great splendour,
and I myself will enter
the forest where the sages dwell.
॥ 2.74.35–36 ॥
CrEd 2.68.28–29
Valmikiverse caption
Sanskrit
इति नाग इवारण्ये तोमराङ्कुशचोदितः ।
पपात भुवि संक्रुद्धो निःश्वसन्न् इव पन्नगः ।
संरक्तनेत्रः शिथिलाम्बरस् तदा विधूतसर्वाभरणः परंतपः ।
बभूव भूमौ पतितो नृपात्मजः शचीपतेः केतुर् इवोत्सवक्षये ॥
iti nāga ivāraṇye tomarāṅkuśacoditaḥ
papāta bhuvi saṃkruddho niḥśvasann iva pannagaḥ
saṃraktanetraḥ śithilāmbaras tadā vidhūtasarvābharaṇaḥ paraṃtapaḥ
babhūva bhūmau patito nṛpātmajaḥ śacīpateḥ ketur ivotsavakṣaye
English
So, like an elephant in the forest
goaded by lance and hook,
he fell to the ground in fury,
hissing like a serpent.
Eyes red, his garment loosened then,
all his ornaments cast off, the scorcher of foes,
the king’s son lay fallen on the earth,
like Shachi’s lord’s banner when the festival is done.
Mother and son
॥ 2.75.5 ॥
CrEd 2.69.1
silent moment
॥ 2.75.6 ॥
CrEd 2.69.2
Kausalya
Sanskrit
आगतः क्रूरकार्यायाः कैकेय्या भरतः सुतः तम् अहं द्रष्टुम् इच्छामि भरतं दीर्घदर्शिनम् ॥
āgataḥ krūrakāryāyāḥ kaikeyyā bharataḥ sutaḥ tam ahaṃ draṣṭum icchāmi bharataṃ dīrghadarśinam
English
He has come, son of Kaikeyi,
she of the cruel deed: Bharata.
I wish to see him,
Bharata, the far-seeing.
॥ 2.75.7–9 ॥
CrEd 2.69.3–5
Valmikiverse caption
Sanskrit
एवम् उक्त्वा सुमित्रां सा विवर्णा मलिनाम्बरा ।
प्रतस्थे भरतो यत्र वेपमाना विचेतना ।
स तु रामानुजश् चापि शत्रुघ्नसहितस् तदा ।
प्रतस्थे भरतो यत्र कौसल्याया निवेशनम् ।
ततः शत्रुघ्नभरतौ कौसल्यां प्रेक्ष्य दुःखितौ ।
पर्यष्वजेतां दुःखार्तां पतितां नष्टचेतनाम् ॥
evam uktvā sumitrāṃ sā vivarṇā malināmbarā
pratasthe bharato yatra vepamānā vicetanā
sa tu rāmānujaś cāpi śatrughnasahitas tadā
pratasthe bharato yatra kausalyāyā niveśanam
tataḥ śatrughnabharatau kausalyāṃ prekṣya duḥkhitau
paryaṣvajetāṃ duḥkhārtāṃ patitāṃ naṣṭacetanām
English
So she spoke to Sumitra, and pale,
in soiled garments,
she set out to where Bharata was,
trembling, her senses failing.
And he, Rama’s younger brother,
with Shatrughna at his side,
Bharata set out for where
Kausalya’s dwelling was.
Then Shatrughna and Bharata, grieving,
beholding Kausalya,
held her close, stricken with sorrow,
fallen, her senses gone.
॥ 2.75.11 ॥
CrEd 2.69.6
Kausalya
Sanskrit
इदं ते राज्यकामस्य राज्यं प्राप्तम् अकण्टकम् संप्राप्तं बत कैकेय्या शीघ्रं क्रूरेण कर्मणा ॥
idaṃ te rājyakāmasya rājyaṃ prāptam akaṇṭakam saṃprāptaṃ bata kaikeyyā śīghraṃ krūreṇa karmaṇā
English
Here is the kingdom you desired,
yours now, without a thorn;
won, alas, by Kaikeyi,
swiftly, by a cruel deed.
॥ 2.75.13–14 ॥
CrEd 2.69.8–9
Kausalya
Sanskrit
क्षिप्रं माम् अपि कैकेयी प्रस्थापयितुम् अर्हति हिरण्यनाभो यत्रास्ते सुतो मे सुमहायशाः अथ वा स्वयम् एवाहं सुमित्रानुचरा सुखम् अग्निहोत्रं पुरस्कृत्य प्रस्थास्ये यत्र राघवः ॥
kṣipraṃ mām api kaikeyī prasthāpayitum arhati hiraṇyanābho yatrāste suto me sumahāyaśāḥ atha vā svayam evāhaṃ sumitrānucarā sukham agnihotraṃ puraskṛtya prasthāsye yatra rāghavaḥ
English
Let Kaikeyi send me too,
and swiftly, to where he dwells,
my son of the golden navel,
my son of great renown.
Or else I myself, gladly,
with Sumitra following,
my sacred fire borne before me,
will go to where Raghava is.
॥ 2.75.19 ॥
CrEd 2.69.12
silent moment
॥ 2.75.20 ॥
CrEd 2.69.13
Bharata
Sanskrit
आर्ये कस्माद् अजानन्तं गर्हसे माम् अकिल्बिषम् विपुलां च मम प्रीतिं स्थिरां जानासि राघवे ॥
ārye kasmād ajānantaṃ garhase mām akilbiṣam vipulāṃ ca mama prītiṃ sthirāṃ jānāsi rāghave
English
Noble lady, why blame me,
who knew nothing, who am without sin?
You know my love for Raghava,
how great it is, and firm.
॥ 2.75.22 ॥
CrEd 2.69.15
Bharata
Sanskrit
प्रैष्यं पापीयसां यातु … हन्तु पादेन गां सुप्तां यस्यार्योऽनुमते गतः ॥
praiṣyaṃ pāpīyasāṃ yātu … hantu pādena gāṃ suptāṃ yasyāryo 'numate gataḥ
English
May he go as servant to the wicked;
may he kick a sleeping cow,
by whose consent my noble brother went.
॥ 2.75.34 ॥
CrEd 2.69.23
Bharata
Sanskrit
पुत्रैर् दारैश् च भृत्यैश् च स्वगृहे परिवारितः स एको मृष्टम् अश्नातु यस्यार्योऽनुमते गतः ॥
putrair dāraiś ca bhṛtyaiś ca svagṛhe parivāritaḥ sa eko mṛṣṭam aśnātu yasyāryo 'numate gataḥ
English
With his sons, his wife, his servants
around him in his house,
may he eat sweet food alone,
by whose consent my noble brother went.
॥ 2.75.46–47 ॥
CrEd 2.69.27–28
Bharata
Sanskrit
देवतानां पितॄणां च माता पित्रोस् तथैव च मा स्म कार्षीत् स शुश्रूषां यस्यार्योऽनुमते गतः सतां लोकात् सतां कीर्त्याः सज्जुष्टात् कर्मणस् तथा भ्रश्यतु क्षिप्रम् अद्यैव यस्यार्योऽनुमते गतः ॥
devatānāṃ pitṝṇāṃ ca mātā pitros tathaiva ca mā sma kārṣīt sa śuśrūṣāṃ yasyāryo 'numate gataḥ satāṃ lokāt satāṃ kīrtyāḥ sajjuṣṭāt karmaṇas tathā bhraśyatu kṣipram adyaiva yasyāryo 'numate gataḥ
English
To the gods and to the fathers,
to his mother and his father,
may he give no service,
by whose consent my noble brother went.
From the world of the good, from their fame,
from the deeds the good hold dear,
may he fall, swiftly, this very day,
by whose consent my noble brother went.
॥ 2.75.59 ॥
CrEd 2.69.29
silent moment
॥ 2.75.60 ॥
CrEd 2.69.30
silent moment
॥ 2.75.61–62 ॥
CrEd 2.69.31–32
Kausalya
Sanskrit
… पुत्र … शपथैः शपमानो हि प्राणान् उपरुणत्सि मे दिष्ट्या न चलितो धर्माद् आत्मा ते सहलक्ष्मणः वत्स सत्यप्रतिज्ञो मे सतां लोकान् अवाप्स्यसि ॥
… putra … śapathaiḥ śapamāno hi prāṇān uparuṇatsi me diṣṭyā na calito dharmād ātmā te sahalakṣmaṇaḥ vatsa satyapratijño me satāṃ lokān avāpsyasi
English
… son … swearing these oaths,
you stop my very breath.
Happily, from dharma has not swerved
your soul, nor Lakshmana’s;
my child, true to your word,
you will win the worlds of the good.
॥ 2.75.63 ॥
Valmikiverse caption
Sanskrit
इत्य् उक्त्वा चाङ्कम् आनीय भरतं भ्रातृवत्सलम् ।
परिष्वज्य महाबाहुं रुरोद भृशदुःखिता ॥
ity uktvā cāṅkam ānīya bharataṃ bhrātṛvatsalam
pariṣvajya mahābāhuṃ ruroda bhṛśaduḥkhitā
English
So saying, she drew to her lap
Bharata, who loved his brother;
embracing the mighty-armed one,
she wept, in bitter grief.
॥ 2.75.64–65 ॥
CrEd 2.69.33–34
Valmikiverse caption
Sanskrit
एवं विलपमानस्य दुःखार्तस्य महात्मनः ।
मोहाच् च शोकसंरोधाद् बभूव लुलितं मनः ।
लालप्यमानस्य विचेतनस्य प्रनष्टबुद्धेः पतितस्य भूमौ ।
मुहुर् मुहुर् निःश्वसतश् च दीर्घं सा तस्य शोकेन जगाम रात्रिः ॥
evaṃ vilapamānasya duḥkhārtasya mahātmanaḥ
mohāc ca śokasaṃrodhād babhūva lulitaṃ manaḥ
lālapyamānasya vicetanasya pranaṣṭabuddheḥ patitasya bhūmau
muhur muhur niḥśvasataś ca dīrghaṃ sā tasya śokena jagāma rātriḥ
English
As he lamented thus,
the great soul, stricken with grief,
from bewilderment and the press of sorrow
his mind was shaken.
Lamenting, senseless,
his reason gone, fallen on the ground,
sighing long, again and again,
he passed that night in grief.
The ashes
॥ 2.76.1 ॥
CrEd 2.70.1
silent moment
॥ 2.76.2 ॥
CrEd 2.70.2
Vasishtha
Sanskrit
अलं शोकेन भद्रं ते राजपुत्र महायशः प्राप्तकालं नरपतेः कुरु संयानम् उत्तरम् ॥
alaṃ śokena bhadraṃ te rājaputra mahāyaśaḥ prāptakālaṃ narapateḥ kuru saṃyānam uttaram
English
Enough of grief, bless you,
prince of great renown;
the time has come: for the king
perform the last journey.
॥ 2.76.9 ॥
CrEd 2.70.9
Bharata
Sanskrit
विधवा पृथिवी राजंस् त्वया हीना न राजते हीनचन्द्रेव रजनी नगरी प्रतिभाति माम् ॥
vidhavā pṛthivī rājaṃs tvayā hīnā na rājate hīnacandreva rajanī nagarī pratibhāti mām
English
A widow, King, is the earth;
without you she does not shine;
like a night without a moon
the city seems to me.
॥ 2.76.20–21, 23 ॥
CrEd 2.70.20–21, 23
Valmikiverse caption
Sanskrit
प्रसव्यं चापि तं चक्रुर् ऋत्विजोऽग्निचितं नृपम् ।
स्त्रियश् च शोकसंतप्ताः कौसल्या प्रमुखास् तदा ।
क्रौञ्चीनाम् इव नारीणां निनादस् तत्र शुश्रुवे ।
आर्तानां करुणं काले क्रोशन्तीनां सहस्रशः ।
कृतोदकं ते भरतेन सार्धं नृपाङ्गना मन्त्रिपुरोहिताश् च ।
पुरं प्रविश्याश्रुपरीतनेत्रा भूमौ दशाहं व्यनयन्त दुःखम् ॥
prasavyaṃ cāpi taṃ cakrur ṛtvijo 'gnicitaṃ nṛpam
striyaś ca śokasaṃtaptāḥ kausalyā pramukhās tadā
krauñcīnām iva nārīṇāṃ ninādas tatra śuśruve
ārtānāṃ karuṇaṃ kāle krośantīnāṃ sahasraśaḥ
kṛtodakaṃ te bharatena sārdhaṃ nṛpāṅganā mantripurohitāś ca
puraṃ praviśyāśruparītanetrā bhūmau daśāhaṃ vyanayanta duḥkham
English
Round the king laid on the fire
the priests walked, keeping him on their left,
and the women, burning with grief,
Kausalya at their head.
Like the crying of cranes
the women’s wail was heard there,
piteous, at that hour, in their pain,
thousands of them crying out.
The water offered, with Bharata,
the king’s wives, ministers and priests
entered the city, eyes veiled in tears,
and spent ten days in grief upon the ground.
॥ 2.77.6b–7a ॥
CrEd 2.71.6
Bharata
Sanskrit
तात यस्मिन् निषृष्टोऽहं त्वया भ्रातरि राघवे तस्मिन् वनं प्रव्रजिते शून्ये त्यक्तोऽस्म्य् अहं त्वया ॥
tāta yasmin niṣṛṣṭo 'haṃ tvayā bhrātari rāghave tasmin vanaṃ pravrajite śūnye tyakto 'smy ahaṃ tvayā
English
Father, the brother to whom you gave me,
Raghava, into his keeping:
now he is gone to the forest,
and you have left me in the void.
॥ 2.77.8b–12a ॥
CrEd 2.71.8–11
silent moment
॥ 2.77.13b–14a ॥
CrEd 2.71.13
Shatrughna
Sanskrit
मन्थराप्रभवस् तीव्रः कैकेयीग्राहसंकुलः वरदानमयोऽक्षोभ्योऽमज्जयच् छोकसागरः ॥
mantharāprabhavas tīvraḥ kaikeyīgrāhasaṃkulaḥ varadānamayo 'kṣobhyo 'majjayac chokasāgaraḥ
English
Sprung from Manthara, fierce,
thick with the crocodile Kaikeyi,
made of the boons, not to be stilled,
a sea of grief has drowned us.
॥ 2.77.21b–22a, 23b–24a ॥
CrEd 2.71.21–22
Vasishtha
Sanskrit
त्रीणि द्वन्द्वानि भूतेषु प्रवृत्तान्य् अविशेषतः तेषु चापरिहार्येषु नैवं भवितुम् अर्हति ॥
trīṇi dvandvāni bhūteṣu pravṛttāny aviśeṣataḥ teṣu cāparihāryeṣu naivaṃ bhavitum arhati
English
Three pairs of opposites
move in all beings alike;
and since there is no escaping them,
you must not be this way.
॥ 2.78.5–8 ॥
CrEd 2.72.5–7
silent moment
॥ 2.78.11 ॥
CrEd 2.72.10
Shatrughna
Sanskrit
तीव्रम् उत्पादितं दुःखं भ्रातॄणां मे तथा पितुः यया सेयं नृशंसस्य कर्मणः फलम् अश्नुताम् ॥
tīvram utpāditaṃ duḥkhaṃ bhrātṝṇāṃ me tathā pituḥ yayā seyaṃ nṛśaṃsasya karmaṇaḥ phalam aśnutām
English
A bitter grief she brought about
for my brothers and my father:
let her taste the fruit
of her cruel deed.
॥ 2.78.16–18 ॥
CrEd 2.72.15–17
Valmikiverse caption
Sanskrit
स च रोषेण ताम्राक्षः शत्रुघ्नः शत्रुतापनः ।
विचकर्ष तदा कुब्जां क्रोशन्तीं पृथिवीतले ।
तस्या ह्य् आकृष्यमाणाया मन्थरायास् ततस् ततः ।
चित्रं बहुविधं भाण्डं पृथिव्यां तद् व्यशीर्यत ।
तेन भाण्डेन संकीर्णं श्रीमद्राजनिवेशनम् ।
अशोभत तदा भूयः शारदं गगनं यथा ॥
sa ca roṣeṇa tāmrākṣaḥ śatrughnaḥ śatrutāpanaḥ
vicakarṣa tadā kubjāṃ krośantīṃ pṛthivītale
tasyā hy ākṛṣyamāṇāyā mantharāyās tatas tataḥ
citraṃ bahuvidhaṃ bhāṇḍaṃ pṛthivyāṃ tad vyaśīryata
tena bhāṇḍena saṃkīrṇaṃ śrīmadrājaniveśanam
aśobhata tadā bhūyaḥ śāradaṃ gaganaṃ yathā
English
And he, his eyes copper-red with anger,
Shatrughna, scorcher of foes,
dragged the hunchback then
screaming across the floor.
And as she was dragged,
Manthara, this way and that,
her bright and many trinkets
broke and scattered on the ground.
Strewn with those trinkets,
the splendid royal palace
shone then all the more,
like an autumn sky.
॥ 2.78.19–20 ॥
CrEd 2.72.18–19
silent moment
॥ 2.78.21–22 ॥
CrEd 2.72.20–21
Bharata
Sanskrit
अवध्याः सर्वभूतानां प्रमदाः क्षम्यताम् इति हन्याम् अहम् इमां पापां कैकेयीं दुष्टचारिणीम् यदि मां धार्मिको रामो नासूयेन् मातृघातकम् ॥
avadhyāḥ sarvabhūtānāṃ pramadāḥ kṣamyatām iti hanyām aham imāṃ pāpāṃ kaikeyīṃ duṣṭacāriṇīm yadi māṃ dhārmiko rāmo nāsūyen mātṛghātakam
English
No woman may be slain by any being:
forgive.
I would slay this wicked one myself,
Kaikeyi, evil in her ways,
if righteous Rama would not scorn me
as a mother’s killer.
॥ 2.78.23 ॥
CrEd 2.72.22
Bharata
Sanskrit
इमाम् अपि हतां कुब्जां यदि जानाति राघवः त्वां च मां चैव धर्मात्मा नाभिभाषिष्यते ध्रुवम् ॥
imām api hatāṃ kubjāṃ yadi jānāti rāghavaḥ tvāṃ ca māṃ caiva dharmātmā nābhibhāṣiṣyate dhruvam
English
If Raghava learns that even she,
this hunchback, has been slain,
to you and to me the righteous one
will surely never speak.
॥ 2.78.24–26 ॥
CrEd 2.72.23–25
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Sanskrit
भरतस्य वचः श्रुत्वा शत्रुघ्नो लक्ष्मणानुजः ।
न्यवर्तत ततो रोषात् तां मुमोच च मन्थराम् ।
सा पादमूले कैकेय्या मन्थरा निपपात ह ।
निःश्वसन्ती सुदुःखार्ता कृपणं विललाप च ।
शत्रुघ्नविक्षेपविमूढसंज्ञां समीक्ष्य कुब्जां भरतस्य माता ।
शनैः समाश्वासयद् आर्तरूपां क्रौञ्चीं विलग्नाम् इव वीक्षमाणाम् ॥
bharatasya vacaḥ śrutvā śatrughno lakṣmaṇānujaḥ
nyavartata tato roṣāt tāṃ mumoca ca mantharām
sā pādamūle kaikeyyā mantharā nipapāta ha
niḥśvasantī suduḥkhārtā kṛpaṇaṃ vilalāpa ca
śatrughnavikṣepavimūḍhasaṃjñāṃ samīkṣya kubjāṃ bharatasya mātā
śanaiḥ samāśvāsayad ārtarūpāṃ krauñcīṃ vilagnām iva vīkṣamāṇām
English
Hearing Bharata’s words,
Shatrughna, Lakshmana’s younger brother,
turned back from his anger
and let Manthara go.
At Kaikeyi’s feet
Manthara fell down,
sighing, in deep distress,
and wept a piteous lament.
Stunned by Shatrughna’s handling,
the hunchback: Bharata’s mother saw her,
and slowly comforted the stricken one,
gazing about like a crane caught in a snare.