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Bhaṭṭikāvyam • Chapter 21

Canto 21

एकविंशः सर्गः

Canto 21 of Bhaṭṭikāvyam.

Total: 23 Verses • Citations: BK 21.1–23 • 1 Lexicon Terms
BK 21.1 अनुष्टुप्
समुत्क्षिप्य ततो वह्निर्मैथिलीं राममुक्तवान् । "काकुत्स्थ ! दयितां साध्वीं त्वमाशङ्किष्यथाः कथम् ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Thereafter, having lifted up the Mithila princess, God Fire spoke to Rama (these) words : "Oh Rama, how did you suspect (your) chaste, beloved (wife) ?
BK 21.2 अनुष्टुप्
ना भविष्यदियं शुद्धा यद्यपास्यमहं ततः । न चैनां पक्षपातो मे धर्मादन्यत्र राघव ! ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: ‘I would certainly not have protected her if she were not pure; I have no partiality towards anything else than Dharma (righteousness).
BK 21.3 अनुष्टुप्
अपि तत्र-रिपुः सीतां नाऽर्थयिष्यत दुर्-मतिः । क्रूरं जात्ववदिष्यच्च जात्वस्तोष्यच्छ्रियं स्वकाम् ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Had the enemy not been evil-minded, he would not once have solicited Sita, spoken wickedly and praised his own riches.
BK 21.4 अनुष्टुप्
सङ्कल्पं नाऽकरिष्यच्च तत्रेयं शुद्ध-मानसा । सत्याऽमर्षमवाप्स्यस्त्वं रामः सीता-निबन्धनम् ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: And, this pure-minded one never entertained a desire therein (for him). (I cannot understand how) you, Rama, attained a true wrath upon Sita.
BK 21.5 अनुष्टुप्
त्वयाऽद्रक्ष्यत किं नाऽस्याः शीलं संवसता चिरम् ।अदर्शिष्यन्त वा चेष्टाः कालेन बधुना न किम् ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Living together for long, was her character not observed, or were her activities not watched for a long time by you ?
BK 21.6 अनुष्टुप्
यावज्जिवमशोचिष्यो नाऽहास्यश्चेदिदं तमः । भानुरप्यपतिष्यत्क्ष्मामक्षोभिष्यत चेदियम् ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: If you would not discard this illusion, you would repent as long as there is life (in you). If this one were agitated, even the Sun would fall down on the earth.
BK 21.7 अनुष्टुप्
समपत्स्यत राजेन्द्र ! स्त्रैणं यद्यत्र चापलम् । लोक-पाला इहाऽऽयास्यंस्ततो नाऽमी कलि-द्रुहः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: If rashness, natural to womanhood, had occurred here (in Sita), then the protectors of the worlds who hate sin would not have come here.
BK 21.8 अनुष्टुप्
आश्चर्यं यच्च यत्र स्त्री कृच्छ्रेऽवर्त्स्यन्मते तव । त्रासादस्यां विनष्टायां किं किमालप्स्यथाः फलम् ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: "Oh wonder, what and where ? If a woman, on your consent would abide in torment, Oh, what fruit would you acquire, if she be destroyed due to fear ?
BK 21.9 अनुष्टुप्
यत्र यच्चाऽमरिष्यत्स्त्री साध्वसाद्दोष-वर्जिता । तदसूया-रतौ लोके तस्या वाच्याऽऽस्पदं मृषा ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: ‘‘What and where ? If a woman devoid of vice (crime) would die through fear, it would wrongly be an object of censure in (this) world addicted to envy.
BK 21.10 अनुष्टुप्
अमंत्स्य भवान्यद्वद्तथैव च पिता तव । नाऽऽगमिष्यद्विमान-स्थः साक्षाद्दशरथो नृपः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: And if your father had thought just as you (did), (he) King Dasaratha would not have come here in person, seated in a plane.
BK 21.11 अनुष्टुप्
नाऽकल्प्स्यत्सन्निधिं स्थानुः शूली वृषभ-वाहनः ।अन्वभाविष्यताऽन्येन मैथिली चेत्पतिव्रता ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: ‘The trident-bearing Sthanu (Siva) who has a bull for conveyance, would not have effected (his) presence here, if Sia had been enjoyed by someone else.
BK 21.12 अनुष्टुप्
आनन्दयिष्यदागम्य कथं त्वामरविन्द-सत् । राजेन्द्र ! विश्व-सूर्धाता चारित्र्ये सीतया क्षते ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: 'How would the Creator of the universe, God Brahma, sitting on a lotus, have delighted you, oh King of kings, if Sta's character were sullied ?’’
BK 21.13 अनुष्टुप्
प्रणमन्ब्रह्मणा प्रोक्तो राजकाऽधिपतिस्ततः । "ना शोत्स्यन्मैथिली लोके नाऽऽचरिष्यदिदं यदि ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Thereafter the saluting Lord of the circle of Kings was spoken to by Brahma : "If Sita had not performed this, then she would not have been in (the eyes of) the world.
BK 21.14 अनुष्टुप्
नाऽमोक्ष्याम वयं शङ्का- मिहाधास्यन्न चेद्भवान् । किं वा चित्रमिदं युक्तं भवान्यदकरिष्यत ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: We would not have discarded suspicion, if you had not set here this act (the fire ordeal). Or what is strange in that you did what was proper.
BK 21.15 अनुष्टुप्
प्रावर्तिष्यन्त चेष्टाश्चेद्-याथातथ्य-वत्तव ।अनुशास्ये त्वया लोके रामाऽवर्त्स्यंस्तरां ततः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: If your activities had proceeded without accordance to truth, then, Oh Rama they would have been still more (so) among the people to be disciplined by you."
BK 21.16 अनुष्टुप्
प्राणमन्तम्ततो राममुक्तवानिति शङ्करः । "किं नारायणमात्मानं नाऽभोत्स्यत भवानजम् ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Then Sankara spoke thus to Rama who saluting, "What ? Did you not remember yourself (as) the unborn Narayana ?
BK 21.17 अनुष्टुप्
को न्योऽकर्त्स्यदिह प्राणान्दृप्तानां च सुर-द्विषाम् । को वा विश्वजनीनेषु कर्मसु प्राघटिष्यत ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: And who else here would have destroyed the life breaths of the enemies of the gods ? Or, who would have applied (himself) to deeds beneficial to all the people ?
BK 21.18 अनुष्टुप्
दैत्य-क्षये महा-राज ! यच्च यत्राऽघटिष्यथाः । समाप्तिं जातु तत्रापि किं नाऽनेष्यस्त्वमीहितम् ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Oh Emperor, in whatever (incarnation) and wherever you exerted in (bringing about the destruction of the demons, why did you not, even once, carry to a finish (your) undertaking therein only?"
BK 21.19 अनुष्टुप्
तातं प्रसाद्य कैयेय्या भरताय प्रपीडितम् । सहस्र-चक्षुषं रामो निनंसुः परिदृष्टवान् ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Having pleased his father who had been harassed excessively by Kaikeyi for the sake of Bharata, Rama desirous of bowing down, saw Indra.
BK 21.20 अनुष्टुप्
प्रेता वरेण शक्रस्य प्राणन्तः कपयस्ततः । संजाताः फलिनाऽऽनम्र-रोचिष्णु-द्रुम-सद्रवः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Then, by the boon of Indra, the dead monkeys, who began breathing, (again) became denizens of fruit-bearing trees bent low and resplendent.
BK 21.21 नर्कुटक
भ्रमर कुलाऽऽकुलोल्बण-सुगन्धि-पुष्प-तरुस्तरुण-मधूक-सम्भव-पिशङ्गित-तुङ्ग-शिखः । शिखर-शिलाऽन्तराल-परिक्wxल्क़्क़्प्त-जलाऽवसरः स-रस-फल-श्रियं स विततान सुवेल-गिरिः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: That Suvela mountain which had flowering trees, intensely fragrant and crowded with swarms of bees, whose lofty summit was rendered golden brown by the fresh flowers of the madhuka trees (and) from the interspaces of the rocks on whose summits down-flowing streams of water were produced, spread out a luxuriance (glory) of juicy fruits.
BK 21.22 प्रहर्षिणी
संवाद्भिः स-कुसुम-रेणुभिः समीरै- रानम्रैर्बहु-फल-धारिभिर्वनाऽन्तैः । श्च्योतद्भिर्मधु-पटलैश्च वानराणामाप्यानो रिपु-वध-सम्भवः प्रमोदः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: By the blowing breezes full of the pollen of flowers, by the slightly curved outskirts of the forest which bore ample fruits, and by the dripping honeycombs was enhanced the monkeys' rapturous delight arising out of the killing of the enemies.
BK 21.23 प्रहर्षिणी
आयान्त्यः स्व-फल-भरेण भङ्गुरत्वं भृङ्गाऽऽली-निचय-चिता लतास्तरूणाम् । साऽऽमोदाः क्षिति-तल-संस्थिताऽवलोप्या भोक्त्णां ष्रममदयं न नीतवत्यः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Reaching a breaking point on account of their own fruit-load, the creepers on the trees covered with throngs of rows of bees, full of fragrance, pluckable by one seated on the surface of the ground, did not bring any rise of fatigue to those who enjoyed (them).
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