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Bhaṭṭikāvyam • Chapter 04

Canto 4

चतुर्थः सर्गः

Canto 4 of Bhaṭṭikāvyam.

Total: 45 Verses • Citations: BK 4.1–45 • 1 Lexicon Terms • Page 1 of 2 (Verses 30 shown)
BK 4.1 अनुष्टुप्
निवृत्ते भरते धी-मानत्रे रामस्तपो-वनम् । प्रपेदे पूजितस्तस्मिन्दण्डकारण्यमीयिवान् ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: When Bharata had gone back, the wise Rama repaired to the penance-grove of Atri. (After having been) honoured there, he went to the Dandaka forest.
BK 4.2 अनुष्टुप्
अटाट्यमानोऽरण्यानीं स-सीतः सह-लक्ष्मणः । बलाद्बुभुक्षुणोत्क्षिप्य जह्रे भीमेन रक्षसा ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Wandering extensively through that vast forest, along with Sita and Laksmana, Rama, having been picked up, was carried away by a ferocious hungry demon.
BK 4.3 अनुष्टुप्
अवाक्-शिरसमुत्-पादं कृतान्तेनाऽपि दुर्-दमम् । भङ्क्त्वा भुजौ विराधाऽऽख्यं तं तौ भुवि निचख्नतुः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Having broken his arms, the two (Rama and Laksmana) buried in the ground, that (demon), whose name was Viradha, whose head was downwards and feet lifted up, and who was difficult to be subdued even by the God of Death (Yama).
BK 4.4 अनुष्टुप्
आंहिषातां रघु-व्याघ्रौ शरभङ्गाऽऽश्रमं ततः ।अध्यासितं श्रिया ब्राह्म्या शरण्यं शरणैषिणाम् ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Thereafter, the two best of Raghus proceeded to the hermitage of Sarabhaiga, which was the abode of Vedic (i.e., spiritual) glory and the refuge for those who desired shelter.
BK 4.5 अनुष्टुप्
पुरो रामस्य जुहवाञ्चकार ज्वलने वपुः । शरभङ्गः प्रदिश्याऽऽरात्सुतीक्ष्ण-मुनिः-केतनम् ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Having pointed out the nearby resort of sage Sutikspa, Sarabhaiga, sacrificed his body in fire, in the presence of Rama.
BK 4.6 अनुष्टुप्
"यूयं समैष्यथेत्यस्मि न्नासिष्महि वयं वने । दृष्टाः स्थ स्वस्ति वो यामः स्व-पुण्य-विजितां गतिम्" ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: (At the time of sacrificing himself, Sarabhanga said to Rama) : ‘‘We resided in this forest (expecting) that you would arrive; (now) you have been seen; farewell to you ; we depart to the status earned by our own religious merit."
BK 4.7 अनुष्टुप्
तस्मिन्कृशानु-साद्-भूते सुतीक्ष्ण-मुनि-सन्निधौ ।उवास पर्ण-शालायां भ्रमन्ननिशमाऽऽश्रमान् ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: When the (sage Sarabhaiga) had been reduced to ashes by fire, (Rama) lived day and night in a cottage of leaves in the neighbourhood of sage Sutiksna.
BK 4.8 अनुष्टुप्
वनेषु वासतेयेषु निवसन्पर्ण-संस्तरः । शय्योत्थायं मृगान्विध्यन्नातिथेयो विचक्रमे ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Residing in habitable forests, that hospitable (Rama) having a bed of leaves, after getting out of the bed wandered about shooting wild beasts.
BK 4.9 अनुष्टुप्
ऋग्-यजुषमधीयानान्सामान्यांश्च समर्चयन् । बुभुजे देव-सात्-कृत्वा शूल्यमुख्यं च हेम-वान् ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Paying homage to sages that were reciting *ks and yajes and those who were experts in the samans, Rama performing (daily) sacrifices, ate after offering to the Gods meat cooked on a spit and in a pan.
BK 4.10 अनुष्टुप्
वसानस्तन्त्रक-निभे सर्वाङ्गीणे तरु-त्वचौ । काण्डीरः खाड्गकः शार्ङ्गी रक्षन्विप्रांस्तनुत्र-वान् ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Wearing a pair of bark-garments that resembled new unbleached pieces of cloth and which covered the whole body, wielding a sword, bow and arrows, wearing an armour and protecting the brahmins,
BK 4.11 अनुष्टुप्
हित्वाऽऽशितङ्गवीनानि फलैर्येष्वाशितम्भवम् । तेष्वसौ दन्दशूकाऽरिर्वनेश्वानभ्र निर्-भयः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: —that dauntless enemy of the beasts of prey, shifted to forests that could provide satiety with fruit, after having deserted woodlands that were already grazed by the cattle.
BK 4.12 अनुष्टुप्
व्रातीन-व्याल-दीप्राऽस्त्रः सुत्वनः परिपूजयन् । पर्षद्वलान्महा-ब्रह्मैराट नैकटिकाऽऽश्रमान् ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Along with excellent brahmins (he, whose missiles blazed against the savage beasts that killed the labourers, wandered to the neighbouring hermitages (graced) with an assembly of Vedic scholars, paying homage to the performers of Soma sacrifices.
BK 4.13 अनुष्टुप्
परेद्यव्यद्य पूर्वेद्युरन्येद्युश्चाऽपि चिन्तयन् । वृद्धि-क्षयौ मुनीन्द्राणां प्रियं-भावुक-तामगात् ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Thinking about the prosperity and adversity of excellent sages, for tomorrow, today, yesterday and (all) other days too, (he) came to be dear (to them).
BK 4.14 अनुष्टुप्
आ-तिष्ठद्-गु जपन्सन्ध्या प्रक्रान्तामायतीगवम् । प्रातस्तरां पतत्रिभ्यः प्रबुद्धः प्रणमन्रविम् ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: (He) who got up at dawn earlier than the birds, recited (the gayatri mantra being the prayer to the dawn bowing to the sun from the time of the arrival of the cows for milking (in the stable) till they had been milked.
BK 4.15 अनुष्टुप्
ददृशे पर्ण-शालायां राक्षस्याऽभीकयाऽथ सः । भार्योढं तमवज्ञाय तस्थे सौमित्रयेऽसकौ ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Then he was seen in the leaf-cottage by a voluptuous demoness. Disregarding him, who had married a wife, that contemptible (demoness) waited covetingly upon Laksmana.
BK 4.16 अनुष्टुप्
दधाना वलि-भं मध्यं कर्ण-जाह-विलोचना । वाक-त्वचेनाऽति-सर्वेण चन्द्र-लेखेव पक्षतौ ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Bearing a waist having folds, her eyes stretching upto the root of the ears, with her voice and skin surpassing everything else, and resembling the crescent of the moon at the beginning of the (bright) fortnight,
BK 4.17 अनुष्टुप्
सु-पाद्द्वि-रद्-नासोरूर्मृदु-पाणि-तलाऽङ्गुलिः । प्रथिमानं दधानेन जघनेन घनेन सा ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: -shewhose legs were well-shaped, whose thighs resembled the trunk of the elephant, whose palms and fingers were delicate and whose solid buttocks possessed massiveness.
BK 4.18 अनुष्टुप्
उन्-नसं दधती वक्त्रं शुद्ध-दल्-लोल-कुण्डलम् । कुर्वाणा पश्यतः शंयून्स्रग्विणी सु-हसाऽऽनना ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: –(she stood) carrying a face with a prominent nose, clean teeth and dangling ear-rings, wearing a chaplet, with a sweet smile on her face and causing the onlookers to feel delighted.
BK 4.19 अनुष्टुप्
प्राप्य चञ्चूर्यमाणा पतीयन्ती रघूत्तमम् ।अनुका प्रार्थयाञ्चक्रे प्रिया-कर्तुं प्रियं-वदा ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Having approached (Laksmana), the best of Raghus, that sweetspeaking, lustful one, frolicking in an abominable manner, praised him (thus), towards making him favourable (to her).
BK 4.20 अनुष्टुप्
"सौमित्रे ! मामुपायंस्थाः कम्रामिच्छुर्वशं-वदाम् । त्वद्-भोगीनां सह-चरीम-शङ्कः पुरुषाऽऽयुषम्।" ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: ‘‘Oh son of Sumitra, desirable and fearless, accept me, for your wife, me who am pining (for you), (who am) at your command, good for pleasure and a (willing) partner for the duration of a man's life.'
BK 4.21 अनुष्टुप्
तामुवाच स-"गौष्ठीने वने स्त्री-पुंस-भीषणे ।अ-सूर्यं-पश्य-रूपा त्वं किम-भीरुररार्यसे ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: He told her, In (this) forest (which was once) the site of a cowpen, (but now) terrific for women and men, why do you, fearless and having a form unseen (even) by the sun, wander wantonly ?
BK 4.22 अनुष्टुप्
मानुषानभिलष्यन्ती रोचिष्णुर्दिव्य-धर्मिणी । त्वमप्सरायमाणेह स्व-तन्त्रा कथमञ्चसि ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Pining for human males , shining, possessing divine . characteristics, appearing like a celestial damsel and self-willed, how (is it that you wander about ?
BK 4.23 अनुष्टुप्
उग्रं-पश्याऽऽकुलोऽरण्ये शालीन-त्व-विवर्जिता । कामुक-प्रार्थना-पट्वी पतिवत्नी कथं न वा ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Or, how (is it that) in this forest, infested with ferocious animals, you, devoid of modesty, and adept in soliciting a lover, are not having a husband ?
BK 4.24 अनुष्टुप्
राघवं पर्ण-शालायामिच्छाऽनुरहसं पतिम् । यः स्वामी मम कान्ता-वानौपकर्णिक-लोचनः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: In the cottage of leaves, solicit Rama in privacy, for your husband, Rama who is my master, who has a wife and whose eyes stretch upto the ears,
BK 4.25 अनुष्टुप्
वपुश्चान्दनिकं यस्य कार्णवेष्टकिकं मुखम् । संग्रामे सर्व-कर्मीणौ पाणी यस्यौपजानुकौ ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: —'and whose body is perfumed with sandal, whose ears are adorned with ear-rings, and whose arms, are adepts in all activity in the battle, and reach upto (his) knees;
BK 4.26 अनुष्टुप्
बद्धो दुर्-बल-रक्षाऽर्थमसिर्येनोपनीविकः । यश्चापमाश्मन-प्रख्यं सेषुं धत्तेऽन्य-दुर्-वहम् ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: -"who has fastened, near the knot of his garment, a sword for the protection of the weak and who wields with an arrow, a bow (as hard) as granite and difficult to be wielded by another ;
BK 4.27 अनुष्टुप्
जेता यज्ञ-द्रुहां संख्ये धर्म-सन्तान-सूर्वने । प्राप्य दार-गवानां यः मुनीनाम-भयं सदा" ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: “‘‘the vanquisher, in battle, of the enemies of sacrifice, the propagator, in the forest, of a series of righteous acts , on approaching whom (there is) freedom for ever from fear for the sages, (their) wives and cattle."
BK 4.28 अनुष्टुप्
ततो वावृत्यमानाऽसौ राम-शालां न्यविक्षत । "मामुपायंस्त रामे"ति वदन्ती साऽऽदरं वचः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: Then, desirous of choosing (Rama) as her husband, she entered the cottage of Rama, respectfully, uttering the words, Rama, marry me."
BK 4.29 अनुष्टुप्
"अ-स्त्रीकोऽसावहं स्त्री-मान्स पुष्यति-तरां तव । पतिर्"इत्यब्रवीद्रामस्"तमेव व्रज मा मुचः।" ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: He (Laksmana, is) without a wife, I am with (my) wife. He is a worthier husband for you , said Rama. ‘‘Go to him only, do not leave (him)."
BK 4.30 अनुष्टुप्
लक्ष्मणंऽसा वृषस्यन्ती महोक्षं गौरिवाऽगमत् । मन्मथाऽऽयुध-सम्पात-व्यथ्यमान-मतिः पुनः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Karandikar: She whose mind was being tortured by the stroke of the weapon of Cupid again went to Laksmana, longing for sexual intercourse, like a cow (approaching) a stud bull.
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