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The jewels thrown down

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Valmiki · Aranya Kanda
3.52.13–3.54.5 (CrEd 3.50.12–3.52.5)

रावण सीता को आकाश के रास्ते दक्षिण ले जाता है, और सारे प्राणी विलाप करते हैं कि धर्म और सत्य नहीं रहे। सीता उसे कायर और चोर कहकर धिक्कारती हैं, जिसने उन्हें युद्ध में नहीं, छल से पाया, और चेताती हैं कि राम उसे मार डालेंगे। एक पहाड़ी पर उन्हें पाँच वानर दिखते हैं, और वे राम और लक्ष्मण को पुकारते हुए अपना उत्तरीय और आभूषण उनके बीच गिरा देती हैं।

As Ravana carries Sita south through the sky, all beings lament that dharma and truth are gone. Sita rages at him as a coward and a thief who won her by trickery, not in battle, and warns him that Rama will kill him. Over a hilltop she sees five monkeys, and drops her upper cloth and ornaments among them, crying out to Rama and Lakshmana.

Sanskrit · Hindi · English·Translation: Raam Leela

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Part 1 · भाग 1

The ornaments

Valmiki 3.52.13–3.54.5 (CrEd 3.50.12–3.52.5)

॥ 3.52.13–21 ॥

CrEd 3.50.12–19

silent moment मौन क्षण

॥ 3.52.29 ॥

CrEd 3.50.27

silent moment मौन क्षण

॥ 3.52.31–33 ॥

CrEd 3.50.29–31

silent moment मौन क्षण

॥ 3.52.34–38 ॥

CrEd 3.50.32–36

silent moment मौन क्षण

॥ 3.52.39–40a ॥

CrEd 3.50.37–38

प्राणीBeings

वाल्मीकि

नास्ति धर्मः कुतः सत्यं नार्जवं नानृशंसता ।
यत्र रामस्य वैदेहीं भार्यां हरति रावणः ।
इति सर्वाणि भूतानि गणशः पर्यदेवयन् ॥

nāsti dharmaḥ kutaḥ satyaṃ nārjavaṃ nānṛśaṃsatā
yatra rāmasya vaidehīṃ bhāryāṃ harati rāvaṇaḥ
iti sarvāṇi bhūtāni gaṇaśaḥ paryadevayan

Translation

“There is no dharma; whence then truth?
No honesty, no mercy,
where Ravana carries off Vaidehi,
the wife of Rama”:
so all beings, troop by troop,
lamented.

लीला

धर्म नहीं रहा, सत्य कहाँ रहा? न सरलता रही, न करुणा, जब रावण राम की पत्नी को हर ले जाता है।

Subtitle

No dharma left, and where is truth?
No honesty, no kindness,
when Ravana carries off
Rama's wife!

॥ 3.53.3 ॥

CrEd 3.51.3

सीताSita

वाल्मीकि

न व्यपत्रपसे नीच कर्मणानेन रावण ज्ञात्वा विरहितां यो मां चोरयित्वा पलायसे ॥

na vyapatrapase nīca karmaṇānena rāvaṇa jñātvā virahitāṃ yo māṃ corayitvā palāyase

Translation

Are you not ashamed, base one,
of this deed, Ravana,
you who, knowing me alone,
steal me away and run?

लीला

नीच रावण, तुझे इस कर्म पर लज्जा नहीं आती? मुझे अकेली जानकर तू मुझे चुराकर भाग रहा है।

Subtitle

Are you not ashamed, base Ravana?
You knew I was alone,
and you steal me
and run.

॥ 3.53.4 ॥

CrEd 3.51.4

सीताSita

वाल्मीकि

त्वयैव नूनं दुष्टात्मन् भीरुणा हर्तुम् इच्छता ममापवाहितो भर्ता मृगरूपेण मायया ॥

tvayaiva nūnaṃ duṣṭātman bhīruṇā hartum icchatā mamāpavāhito bhartā mṛgarūpeṇa māyayā

Translation

Surely it was you, wicked one,
a coward who wished to steal me,
who drew my husband away
by magic in a deer’s form.

लीला

दुष्टात्मा, कायर, निश्चय ही मुझे हरने की इच्छा से तूने ही मृग के रूप वाली माया से मेरे पति को दूर हटाया।

Subtitle

It was you, wicked coward,
who drew my husband away
with magic
in the shape of a deer.

॥ 3.53.6 ॥

CrEd 3.51.5

सीताSita

वाल्मीकि

परमं खलु ते वीर्यं दृश्यते राक्षसाधम विश्राव्य नामधेयं हि युद्धे नास्मि जिता त्वया ॥

paramaṃ khalu te vīryaṃ dṛśyate rākṣasādhama viśrāvya nāmadheyaṃ hi yuddhe nāsmi jitā tvayā

Translation

Great indeed is the valour
that you show, lowest of rakshasas!
For you proclaimed your name,
yet you did not win me in battle.

लीला

बड़ा भारी पराक्रम दिखा रहा है तू, राक्षसाधम! अपना नाम तो ऊँचे स्वर में सुनाया, पर मुझे युद्ध में नहीं जीता।

Subtitle

Great valour indeed, lowest of rakshasas!
You shouted your name,
but you never won me
in battle.

॥ 3.53.23b–25a ॥

CrEd 3.51.22–23

condensed from 3.53.23b–25a

सीताSita

वाल्मीकि

निमेषान्तरमात्रेण विना भ्रातरम् आहवे ।
राक्षसा निहता येन सहस्राणि चतुर्दश ।
स कथं राघवो वीरः सर्वास्त्रकुशलो बली ।
न त्वां हन्याच् छरैस् तीक्ष्णैर् इष्टभार्यापहारिणम् ॥

nimeṣāntaramātreṇa vinā bhrātaram āhave
rākṣasā nihatā yena sahasrāṇi caturdaśa
sa kathaṃ rāghavo vīraḥ sarvāstrakuśalo balī
na tvāṃ hanyāc charais tīkṣṇair iṣṭabhāryāpahāriṇam

Translation

He by whom, in the space of a blink,
in battle, without his brother,
rakshasas were slain,
fourteen thousand of them:
how could Raghava, that hero,
skilled in all weapons, mighty,
not slay you with sharp arrows,
you who carried off his beloved wife?

लीला

जिन्होंने पलक झपकते, भाई के बिना, चौदह सहस्र राक्षस मार डाले, वे वीर राघव अपनी पत्नी के चोर, तुझे कैसे न मारेंगे?

Subtitle

In the blink of an eye, without his brother,
he killed fourteen thousand.
How will that hero not kill you,
who stole his wife?

॥ 3.53.25b–26 ॥

CrEd 3.51.24–25

silent moment मौन क्षण

॥ 3.54.1 ॥

CrEd 3.52.1

silent moment मौन क्षण

॥ 3.54.2 ॥

CrEd 3.52.2

silent moment मौन क्षण

॥ 3.54.3 ॥

CrEd 3.52.3

silent moment मौन क्षण

॥ 3.54.4b–5a ॥

CrEd 3.52.4

सीताSita

वाल्मीकि

पिङ्गाक्षास् तां विशालाक्षीं नेत्रैर् अनिमिषैर् इव ।
विक्रोशन्तीं तदा सीतां ददृशुर् वानरर्षभाः ॥

piṅgākṣās tāṃ viśālākṣīṃ netrair animiṣair iva
vikrośantīṃ tadā sītāṃ dadṛśur vānararṣabhāḥ

Translation

Yellow-eyed, with eyes that seemed
not to blink, those bulls among monkeys
saw her then, wide-eyed Sita,
crying out.

लीला

राम! राम! लक्ष्मण!

Subtitle

Rama! Rama!
Lakshmana!

॥ 3.54.5b ॥

CrEd 3.52.5

silent moment मौन क्षण