The crest-jewel
॥ 5.65.1–2 ॥
CrEd 5.63.1–2
Valmikiverse caption
Sanskrit
ततः प्रस्रवणं शैलं ते गत्वा चित्रकाननम् प्रणम्य शिरसा रामं लक्ष्मणं च महाबलम् युवराजं पुरस्कृत्य सुग्रीवम् अभिवाद्य च ॥
tataḥ prasravaṇaṃ śailaṃ te gatvā citrakānanam praṇamya śirasā rāmaṃ lakṣmaṇaṃ ca mahābalam yuvarājaṃ puraskṛtya sugrīvam abhivādya ca
English
Then to Prasravana, the mountain,
they came, its woods bright and varied,
and bowing their heads to Rama
and to Lakshmana, great in strength,
with the crown prince before them,
they saluted Sugriva.
॥ 5.65.2cd–3ab ॥
CrEd 5.63.2cd–3ab
Angada
Sanskrit
प्रवृत्तम् अथ सीतायाः प्रवक्तुम् उपचक्रमुः रावणान्तःपुरे रोधं राक्षसीभिश् च तर्जनम् ॥
pravṛttam atha sītāyāḥ pravaktum upacakramuḥ rāvaṇāntaḥpure rodhaṃ rākṣasībhiś ca tarjanam
English
Then they began to tell
the tidings of Sita:
her confinement in Ravana’s inner palace,
the rakshasis’ threats against her.
॥ 5.65.3cd ॥
CrEd 5.63.3cd
Jambavan
Sanskrit
रामे समनुरागं च यश् चापि समयः कृतः ॥
rāme samanurāgaṃ ca yaś cāpi samayaḥ kṛtaḥ
English
her love, wholly given to Rama,
and the term that had been set.
॥ 5.65.4–5 ॥
CrEd 5.63.4–5
Rama
Sanskrit
वैदेहीम् अक्षतां श्रुत्वा रामस् तूत्तरम् अब्रवीत् क्व सीता वर्तते देवी कथं च मयि वर्तते एतन् मे सर्वम् आख्यात वैदेहीं प्रति वानराः ॥
vaidehīm akṣatāṃ śrutvā rāmas tūttaram abravīt kva sītā vartate devī kathaṃ ca mayi vartate etan me sarvam ākhyāta vaidehīṃ prati vānarāḥ
English
Hearing Vaidehi was unharmed,
Rama spoke in answer:
“Where is Sita, where does the devi dwell?
And how is her heart toward me?
Tell me all of it,
vanaras, all of Vaidehi.”
॥ 5.65.6–8ab ॥
CrEd 5.63.6–7
Valmikiverse caption
Sanskrit
रामस्य गदितं श्रुत्वा हरयो रामसंनिधौ चोदयन्ति हनूमन्तं सीतावृत्तान्तकोविदम् श्रुत्वा तु वचनं तेषां हनूमान् मारुतात्मजः उवाच वाक्यं वाक्यज्ञः सीताया दर्शनं यथा ॥
rāmasya gaditaṃ śrutvā harayo rāmasaṃnidhau codayanti hanūmantaṃ sītāvṛttāntakovidam śrutvā tu vacanaṃ teṣāṃ hanūmān mārutātmajaḥ uvāca vākyaṃ vākyajñaḥ sītāyā darśanaṃ yathā
English
Hearing the words of Rama,
the vanaras, there before Rama,
urged Hanuman on,
who knew all Sita’s story.
And hearing their words,
Hanuman, son of the Wind,
master of words, spoke,
and told how he had seen Sita.
॥ 5.65.7cd ॥
silent moment
॥ 5.65.10cd–11ab, 13cd–14ab ॥
CrEd 5.63.10, 13
Hanuman
Sanskrit
तत्र दृष्टा मया सीता रावणान्तःपुरे सती संन्यस्य त्वयि जीवन्ती रामा राम मनोरथम् … एकवेणीधरा दीना त्वयि चिन्तापरायणा अधःशय्या विवर्णाङ्गी पद्मिनीव हिमागमे ॥
tatra dṛṣṭā mayā sītā rāvaṇāntaḥpure satī saṃnyasya tvayi jīvantī rāmā rāma manoratham … ekaveṇīdharā dīnā tvayi cintāparāyaṇā adhaḥśayyā vivarṇāṅgī padminīva himāgame
English
There I saw Sita,
faithful, in Ravana’s inner palace,
living on, the lovely one,
her heart’s wish laid in you, Rama.
One braid she wears, forlorn,
lost in thought of you,
sleeping on the ground, her body pale,
like a lotus pool when winter comes.
॥ 5.65.21 ॥
CrEd 5.63.20
silent moment
॥ 5.65.22 ॥
CrEd 5.63.21
Hanuman
Sanskrit
एष चूडामणिः श्रीमान् मया ते यत्नरक्षितः मनःशिलायास् तिलकस् तं स्मरस्वेति चाब्रवीत् ॥
eṣa cūḍāmaṇiḥ śrīmān mayā te yatnarakṣitaḥ manaḥśilāyās tilakas taṃ smarasveti cābravīt
English
“This glorious crest-jewel,
guarded with care, I keep for you;
and the mark of red arsenic:
remember it,” she said.
॥ 5.65.24cd–25ab ॥
CrEd 5.63.23
Hanuman
Sanskrit
जीवितं धारयिष्यामि मासं दशरथात्मज ऊर्ध्वं मासान् न जीवेयं रक्षसां वशम् आगता ॥
jīvitaṃ dhārayiṣyāmi māsaṃ daśarathātmaja ūrdhvaṃ māsān na jīveyaṃ rakṣasāṃ vaśam āgatā
English
“My life I will keep
a month, son of Dasharatha;
past the month I would not live,
fallen into the rakshasas’ power.”
॥ 5.65.27 ॥
CrEd 5.63.26
Valmikiverse caption
Sanskrit
तौ जाताश्वासौ राजपुत्रौ विदित्वा तच् चाभिज्ञानं राघवाय प्रदाय देव्या चाख्यातं सर्वम् एवानुपूर्व्याद् वाचा संपूर्णं वायुपुत्रः शशंस ॥
tau jātāśvāsau rājaputrau viditvā tac cābhijñānaṃ rāghavāya pradāya devyā cākhyātaṃ sarvam evānupūrvyād vācā saṃpūrṇaṃ vāyuputraḥ śaśaṃsa
English
Knowing the two princes had taken heart,
he gave that token to Raghava;
all that the devi had said, in order,
in full, the son of the Wind told.
॥ 5.66.1 ॥
CrEd 5.64.1
Valmikiverse caption
Sanskrit
एवम् उक्तो हनुमता रामो दशरथात्मजः तं मणिं हृदये कृत्वा प्ररुरोद सलक्ष्मणः ॥
evam ukto hanumatā rāmo daśarathātmajaḥ taṃ maṇiṃ hṛdaye kṛtvā praruroda salakṣmaṇaḥ
English
So Hanuman spoke, and Rama,
the son of Dasharatha,
laid that jewel on his heart
and wept, and Lakshmana with him.
॥ 5.66.2 ॥
CrEd 5.64.2
silent moment
॥ 5.66.3 ॥
CrEd 5.64.3
Rama
Sanskrit
यथैव धेनुः स्रवति स्नेहाद् वत्सस्य वत्सला तथा ममापि हृदयं मणिरत्नस्य दर्शनात् ॥
yathaiva dhenuḥ sravati snehād vatsasya vatsalā tathā mamāpi hṛdayaṃ maṇiratnasya darśanāt
English
As a cow’s milk flows
from love, fond of her calf,
so too my heart flows
at the sight of this jewel.
॥ 5.66.4–5 ॥
CrEd 5.64.4–5
Rama
Sanskrit
मणिरत्नम् इदं दत्तं वैदेह्याः श्वशुरेण मे वधूकाले यथा बद्धम् अधिकं मूर्ध्नि शोभते अयं हि जलसंभूतो मणिः प्रवरपूजितः यज्ञे परमतुष्टेन दत्तः शक्रेण धीमता ॥
maṇiratnam idaṃ dattaṃ vaidehyāḥ śvaśureṇa me vadhūkāle yathā baddham adhikaṃ mūrdhni śobhate ayaṃ hi jalasaṃbhūto maṇiḥ pravarapūjitaḥ yajñe paramatuṣṭena dattaḥ śakreṇa dhīmatā
English
This precious jewel was given
to Vaidehi by my father-in-law;
bound on her as a bride,
it shone the brighter on her head.
For this jewel, born of water,
honoured by the highest,
was given at a sacrifice, in deep content,
by Shakra, the wise.
॥ 5.66.7cd, 9 ॥
CrEd 5.64.7cd, 9
Rama
Sanskrit
अद्यास्य दर्शनेनाहं प्राप्तां ताम् इव चिन्तये … इतस् तु किं दुःखतरं यद् इमं वारिसंभवम् मणिं पश्यामि सौमित्रे वैदेहीम् आगतं विना ॥
adyāsya darśanenāhaṃ prāptāṃ tām iva cintaye … itas tu kiṃ duḥkhataraṃ yad imaṃ vārisaṃbhavam maṇiṃ paśyāmi saumitre vaidehīm āgataṃ vinā
English
Seeing it today,
I think of her as come.
But what grief is greater than this:
that this water-born
jewel I see, Saumitri,
come without Vaidehi?
॥ 5.66.14 ॥
CrEd 5.64.14
Rama
Sanskrit
किम् आह सीता हनुमंस् तत्त्वतः कथयस्व मे एतेन खलु जीविष्ये भेषजेनातुरो यथा ॥
kim āha sītā hanumaṃs tattvataḥ kathayasva me etena khalu jīviṣye bheṣajenāturo yathā
English
What did Sita say, Hanuman?
Tell me truly.
By this I shall live,
as the sick by medicine.
॥ 5.66.15 ॥
CrEd 5.64.15
silent moment
Her words
॥ 5.67.1–2 ॥
CrEd 5.65.1–2
Valmikiverse caption
Sanskrit
एवम् उक्तस् तु हनुमान् राघवेण महात्मना सीताया भाषितं सर्वं न्यवेदयत राघवे इदम् उक्तवती देवी जानकी पुरुषर्षभ पूर्ववृत्तम् अभिज्ञानं चित्रकूटे यथा तथम् ॥
evam uktas tu hanumān rāghaveṇa mahātmanā sītāyā bhāṣitaṃ sarvaṃ nyavedayata rāghave idam uktavatī devī jānakī puruṣarṣabha pūrvavṛttam abhijñānaṃ citrakūṭe yathā tatham
English
So asked by Raghava,
great of soul, Hanuman
set before Raghava
all that Sita had said:
“This the devi said,
Janaki, best of men:
a token of a thing long past,
at Chitrakuta, just as it was.”
॥ 5.67.3cd, 12ab, 15cd–16ab ॥
CrEd 5.65.3cd, 12ab, 15
Hanuman
Sanskrit
वायसः सहसोत्पत्य विरराद स्तनान्तरे … स दर्भं संस्तराद् गृह्य ब्रह्मास्त्रेण न्ययोजयः … तं त्वं निपतितं भूमौ शरण्यः शरणागतम् वधार्हम् अपि काकुत्स्थ कृपया परिपालयः ॥
vāyasaḥ sahasotpatya virarāda stanāntare … sa darbhaṃ saṃstarād gṛhya brahmāstreṇa nyayojayaḥ … taṃ tvaṃ nipatitaṃ bhūmau śaraṇyaḥ śaraṇāgatam vadhārham api kākutstha kṛpayā paripālayaḥ
English
A crow flew up all at once
and tore at her breast.
You took a darbha blade from the grass bed
and charged it with Brahma’s weapon.
When he fell before you to the ground,
you, the refuge, sheltered him who sought refuge;
though he deserved death, Kakutstha,
you protected him in pity.
॥ 5.67.18ab ॥
CrEd 5.65.17cd
Valmikiverse caption
Sanskrit
विसृष्टस् तु तदा काकः प्रतिपेदे खम् आलयम् ॥
visṛṣṭas tu tadā kākaḥ pratipede kham ālayam
English
Then, set free, the crow
went to the sky, its home.
॥ 5.67.19ab, 20cd–21ab ॥
CrEd 5.65.18cd, 20
Hanuman
Sanskrit
किमर्थम् अस्त्रं रक्षःसु न योजयसि राघव … तव वीर्यवतः कच्चिन् मयि यद्य् अस्ति संभ्रमः क्षिप्रं सुनिशितैर् बाणैर् हन्यतां युधि रावणः ॥
kimartham astraṃ rakṣaḥsu na yojayasi rāghava … tava vīryavataḥ kaccin mayi yady asti saṃbhramaḥ kṣipraṃ suniśitair bāṇair hanyatāṃ yudhi rāvaṇaḥ
English
“Why do you not set your weapon
upon the rakshasas, Raghava?
If you, so mighty,
have any care for me,
swiftly, with keen-whetted arrows,
let Ravana be slain in battle.”
॥ 5.67.21cd–22ab, 23cd–24ab ॥
CrEd 5.65.21, 23
Hanuman
Sanskrit
भ्रातुर् आदेशम् आदाय लक्ष्मणो वा परंतपः स किमर्थं नरवरो न मां रक्षति राघवः … ममैव दुष्कृतं किं चिन् महद् अस्ति न संशयः समर्थौ सहितौ यन् मां नापेक्षेते परंतपौ ॥
bhrātur ādeśam ādāya lakṣmaṇo vā paraṃtapaḥ sa kimarthaṃ naravaro na māṃ rakṣati rāghavaḥ … mamaiva duṣkṛtaṃ kiṃ cin mahad asti na saṃśayaḥ samarthau sahitau yan māṃ nāpekṣete paraṃtapau
English
“Or Lakshmana, scourge of foes,
taking his brother’s command:
why does he, best of men,
that Raghava, not save me?
Some evil deed of mine alone,
a great one, there must be, no doubt,
that those two, able, together,
scourges of foes, do not look to me.”
॥ 5.67.24cd ॥
CrEd 5.65.24ab
Valmikiverse caption
Sanskrit
वैदेह्या वचनं श्रुत्वा करुणं साश्रुभाषितम् ॥
vaidehyā vacanaṃ śrutvā karuṇaṃ sāśrubhāṣitam
English
Hearing Vaidehi’s words,
pitiful, spoken through tears,
॥ 5.67.25ab ॥
CrEd 5.65.24cd
silent moment
॥ 5.67.25–26ab ॥
CrEd 5.65.24cd–25
Hanuman
Sanskrit
पुनर् अप्य् अहम् आर्यां ताम् इदं वचनम् अब्रुवम् त्वच्छोकविमुखो रामो देवि सत्येन ते शपे रामे दुःखाभिभूते च लक्ष्मणः परितप्यते ॥
punar apy aham āryāṃ tām idaṃ vacanam abruvam tvacchokavimukho rāmo devi satyena te śape rāme duḥkhābhibhūte ca lakṣmaṇaḥ paritapyate
English
And again I spoke these words
to that noble lady:
“Rama is turned from all by grief for you,
devi, I swear to you by truth;
and with Rama overcome by sorrow,
Lakshmana burns in torment.”
॥ 5.67.30cd–31ab ॥
CrEd 5.65.30
Valmikiverse caption
Sanskrit
साभिवीक्ष्य दिशः सर्वा वेण्युद्ग्रथनम् उत्तमम् मुक्त्वा वस्त्राद् ददौ मह्यं मणिम् एतं महाबल ॥
sābhivīkṣya diśaḥ sarvā veṇyudgrathanam uttamam muktvā vastrād dadau mahyaṃ maṇim etaṃ mahābala
English
She looked about on every side;
this finest jewel of her braid
she untied from her garment and gave me,
this very jewel, mighty one.
॥ 5.67.33 ॥
CrEd 5.65.32cd-ef
Valmikiverse caption
Sanskrit
उवाच जनकात्मजा अश्रुपूर्णमुखी दीना बाष्पसंदिग्धभाषिणी ॥
uvāca janakātmajā aśrupūrṇamukhī dīnā bāṣpasaṃdigdhabhāṣiṇī
English
Janaka’s daughter spoke to me,
her face full of tears, forlorn,
her voice choked with weeping.
॥ 5.67.34cd–35ab, 36 ॥
CrEd 5.65.33, 35
Hanuman
Sanskrit
हनुमन् सिंहसंकाशौ ताव् उभौ रामलक्ष्मणौ सुग्रीवं च सहामात्यं सर्वान् ब्रूया अनामयम् … इमं च तीव्रं मम शोकवेगं रक्षोभिर् एभिः परिभर्त्सनं च ब्रूयास् तु रामस्य गतः समीपं शिवश् च तेऽध्वास्तु हरिप्रवीर ॥
hanuman siṃhasaṃkāśau tāv ubhau rāmalakṣmaṇau sugrīvaṃ ca sahāmātyaṃ sarvān brūyā anāmayam … imaṃ ca tīvraṃ mama śokavegaṃ rakṣobhir ebhiḥ paribhartsanaṃ ca brūyās tu rāmasya gataḥ samīpaṃ śivaś ca te 'dhvāstu haripravīra
English
“Hanuman, to those two, like lions,
Rama and Lakshmana both,
and to Sugriva with his ministers,
to all, say that I am well.
And this fierce rush of my grief,
and these rakshasas’ threats,
tell them to Rama when you reach him;
and blessed be your road, hero of the vanaras.”
॥ 5.68.1 ॥
CrEd 5.66.1
silent moment
॥ 5.68.8–9 ॥
CrEd 5.66.8–9
Hanuman
Sanskrit
कथं नु खलु दुष्पारं तरिष्यन्ति महोदधिम् तानि हर्यृक्षसैन्यानि तौ वा नरवरात्मजौ त्रयाणाम् एव भूतानां सागरस्यास्य लङ्घने शक्तिः स्याद् वैनतेयस्य वायोर् वा तव वानघ ॥
kathaṃ nu khalu duṣpāraṃ tariṣyanti mahodadhim tāni haryṛkṣasainyāni tau vā naravarātmajau trayāṇām eva bhūtānāṃ sāgarasyāsya laṅghane śaktiḥ syād vainateyasya vāyor vā tava vānagha
English
“How indeed will they cross
the great ocean none can cross,
those hosts of vanaras and bears,
or those two sons of the best of men?
Of all beings, three alone
have the strength to leap this sea:
Vainateya, the Wind,
or you, sinless one.”
॥ 5.68.13–14 ॥
CrEd 5.66.13–14
Hanuman
Sanskrit
यथाहं तस्य वीरस्य वनाद् उपधिना हृता रक्षसा तद् भयाद् एव तथा नार्हति राघवः बलैस् तु संकुलां कृत्वा लङ्कां परबलार्दनः मां नयेद् यदि काकुत्स्थस् तत् तस्य सदृशं भवेत् ॥
yathāhaṃ tasya vīrasya vanād upadhinā hṛtā rakṣasā tad bhayād eva tathā nārhati rāghavaḥ balais tu saṃkulāṃ kṛtvā laṅkāṃ parabalārdanaḥ māṃ nayed yadi kākutsthas tat tasya sadṛśaṃ bhavet
English
“As I was stolen by a trick
from the forest, by the rakshasa,
for fear of that hero,
so Raghava must not take me.
But thronging Lanka with his armies,
the crusher of hostile hosts,
if Kakutstha should lead me home,
that would be worthy of him.”
॥ 5.68.19–20 ॥
CrEd 5.66.19–20
Valmikiverse caption
Sanskrit
येषां नोपरि नाधस्तान् न तिर्यक् सज्जते गतिः न च कर्मसु सीदन्ति महत्स्व् अमिततेजसः असकृत् तैर् महाभागैर् वानरैर् बलसंयुतैः प्रदक्षिणीकृता भूमिर् वायुमार्गानुसारिभिः ॥
yeṣāṃ nopari nādhastān na tiryak sajjate gatiḥ na ca karmasu sīdanti mahatsv amitatejasaḥ asakṛt tair mahābhāgair vānarair balasaṃyutaiḥ pradakṣiṇīkṛtā bhūmir vāyumārgānusāribhiḥ
English
Their going is checked not above,
nor below, nor across;
in great tasks they never falter,
boundless in their splendour.
Again and again those blessed ones,
those vanaras full of strength,
have circled the earth sunwise,
following the pathway of the wind.
॥ 5.68.16cd, 28 ॥
CrEd 5.66.16cd, 28
Hanuman
Sanskrit
निशम्याहं ततः शेषं वाक्यम् उत्तरम् अब्रुवम् … निवृत्तवनवासं च त्वया सार्धम् अरिंदमम् अभिषिक्तम् अयोध्यायां क्षिप्रं द्रक्ष्यसि राघवम् ॥
niśamyāhaṃ tataḥ śeṣaṃ vākyam uttaram abruvam … nivṛttavanavāsaṃ ca tvayā sārdham ariṃdamam abhiṣiktam ayodhyāyāṃ kṣipraṃ drakṣyasi rāghavam
English
Hearing her, I then spoke
the rest, my words of answer:
“Returned from his forest dwelling,
with you beside him, the tamer of foes,
consecrated in Ayodhya,
soon you will see Raghava.”
॥ 5.68.29 ॥
CrEd 5.66.29
Hanuman
Sanskrit
ततो मया वाग्भिर् अदीनभाषिणी शिवाभिर् इष्टाभिर् अभिप्रसादिता जगाम शान्तिं मम मैथिलात्मजा तवापि शोकेन तथाभिपीडिता ॥
tato mayā vāgbhir adīnabhāṣiṇī śivābhir iṣṭābhir abhiprasāditā jagāma śāntiṃ mama maithilātmajā tavāpi śokena tathābhipīḍitā
English
Then with words gentle and dear
I calmed her of the undaunted voice;
and Maithili found her peace,
though grief for you so pierced her.
॥ 5.68.29 ॥
CrEd 5.66.29
silent moment