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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇam • Kāṇḍa 2 (Ayodhyākāṇḍa) • Sarga 60

Ayodhyākāṇḍa Sarga 60

अयोध्याकाण्डम् • सर्गः 60

Ayodhyākāṇḍa Sarga 60 of the classical Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa with 19 verses.

Total: 19 Verses • Citations: VR 2.60.1–19 • 175 Lexicon Terms
VR 2.60.1 अनुष्टुप्
तमग्निमिव संशान्तमम्बुहीनमिवार्णवम् । हतप्रभमिवादित्यं स्वर्गथं प्रेक्ष्य भूमिपम् ॥
tamagnimiva saṃśāntamambuhīnamivārṇavam | hataprabhamivādityaṃ svargathaṃ prekṣya bhūmipam ||
English Translation
Seeing the king had ascended heaven, like to a fire that has cooled, or an ocean deprived of its waters, or the sun shorn of his splendour, Kausalyā afflicted with woe, taking on her lap the head of the king, with tears in her eyes, said.
VR 2.60.2 अनुष्टुप्
कौसल्या बाष्पपूर्णाक्षी विविधं शोककर्शिता । उपगृह्य शिरो राज्ञः कैकेयीं प्रत्यभाषत ॥
kausalyā bāṣpapūrṇākṣī vividhaṃ śokakarśitā | upagṛhya śiro rājñaḥ kaikeyīṃ pratyabhāṣata ||
English Translation
Seeing the king had ascended heaven, like to a fire that has cooled, or an ocean deprived of its waters, or the sun shorn of his splendour, Kausalyā afflicted with woe, taking on her lap the head of the king, with tears in her eyes, said.
VR 2.60.3 अनुष्टुप्
सकामा भव कैकेयि भुङ्क्ष्व राज्यमकण्टकम् । त्यक्त्वा राजानमेकाग्रा नृशंसे दुष्टचारिणि ॥
sakāmā bhava kaikeyi bhuṅkṣva rājyamakaṇṭakam | tyaktvā rājānamekāgrā nṛśaṃse duṣṭacāriṇi ||
English Translation
O Kaikeyī, attain you your wished: do you enjoy this kingdom rid of your thorn. O cruel one, O you of wicked ways, you that forsaking the king had set your heart (on having your son crowned), Rāma had gone away, forsaking me; and now my lord has ascended heaven. I can no longer bear to live, like one left lone in a wilderness by her companions.
VR 2.60.4 अनुष्टुप्
विहाय मां गतो रामो भर्ता च स्वर्गतो मम । विपथे सार्थहीनेव नाहं जीवितुमुत्सहे ॥
vihāya māṃ gato rāmo bhartā ca svargato mama | vipathe sārthahīneva nāhaṃ jīvitumutsahe ||
English Translation
O Kaikeyī, attain you your wished: do you enjoy this kingdom rid of your thorn. O cruel one, O you of wicked ways, you that forsaking the king had set your heart (on having your son crowned), Rāma had gone away, forsaking me; and now my lord has ascended heaven. I can no longer bear to live, like one left lone in a wilderness by her companions.
VR 2.60.5 अनुष्टुप्
भर्तारं तं परित्यज्य का स्त्री दैवतमात्मनः । इच्छेज्जीवितुमन्यत्र कैकेय्यास्त्यक्तधर्मणः ॥
bhartāraṃ taṃ parityajya kā strī daivatamātmanaḥ | icchejjīvitumanyatra kaikeyyāstyaktadharmaṇaḥ ||
English Translation
What other woman except Kaikeyi lost to righteousness, having lost her deity, her lord, wishes to carry on existence in another's kingdom?
VR 2.60.6 अनुष्टुप्
न लुब्धो बुध्यते दोषान्किं पाकमिव भक्षयन् । कुब्जानिमित्तं कैकेय्या राघवाणान्कुलं हतम् ॥
na lubdho budhyate doṣānkiṃ pākamiva bhakṣayan | kubjānimittaṃ kaikeyyā rāghavāṇānkulaṃ hatam ||
English Translation
As a covetous person taking poison (through anger or some other passion), does not consider himself guilty, (so Kaikeyī) having done this evil through Manthara's incitement, does not bring her guilt home to her mind. It is through the instrumentality of the humpbacked woman that this race of the Rāghavas has been destroyed by Kaikeyi. Hearing that the king being made to do an unrighteous action, has banished Rāma together with his wife, king Janaka will be filled with grief as I have been.
VR 2.60.7 अनुष्टुप्
अनियोगे नियुक्तेन राज्ञा रामं विवासितम् । सभार्यं जनकः श्रुत्वा परितप्स्यत्यहं यथा ॥
aniyoge niyuktena rājñā rāmaṃ vivāsitam | sabhāryaṃ janakaḥ śrutvā paritapsyatyahaṃ yathā ||
English Translation
As a covetous person taking poison (through anger or some other passion), does not consider himself guilty, (so Kaikeyī) having done this evil through Manthara's incitement, does not bring her guilt home to her mind. It is through the instrumentality of the humpbacked woman that this race of the Rāghavas has been destroyed by Kaikeyi. Hearing that the king being made to do an unrighteous action, has banished Rāma together with his wife, king Janaka will be filled with grief as I have been.
VR 2.60.8 उपजातिः
रामः कमलपत्राक्षो जीवनाशमितो गतः । विदेहराजस्य सुता तहा सीता तपस्विनी । दुःखस्यानुचिता दुःखं वने पर्युद्विजिष्यति ॥
rāmaḥ kamalapatrākṣo jīvanāśamito gataḥ | videharājasya sutā tahā sītā tapasvinī | duḥkhasyānucitā duḥkhaṃ vane paryudvijiṣyati ||
English Translation
The fair daughter of Videha's king unworthy of hardship, in ascetic guise is leading a life of trouble and terror in the woods.
VR 2.60.9 अनुष्टुप्
नदतां भीमघोषाणां निशासु मृगपक्षिणाम् । निशम्य नूनं संस्त्रस्ता राघवं संश्रयिष्यति ॥
nadatāṃ bhīmaghoṣāṇāṃ niśāsu mṛgapakṣiṇām | niśamya nūnaṃ saṃstrastā rāghavaṃ saṃśrayiṣyati ||
English Translation
Hearing at night the dreadful roars of birds and beasts crying, she exceedingly frightened takes shelter with Rāghava.
VR 2.60.10 अनुष्टुप्
वृद्धश्चैवाल्पपुत्रश्च वैदेहीमनिचिन्तयन् । सोऽपि शोकसमाविष्टो ननु त्यक्ष्यति जीवितम् ॥
vṛddhaścaivālpaputraśca vaidehīmanicintayan | so'pi śokasamāviṣṭo nanu tyakṣyati jīvitam ||
English Translation
Old and having an only daughter, he revolving in his mind thoughts of Vaidehi, shall, smitten with grief, surely renounce his life. I ever faithful to my lord will die this very day, embracing this body; I will enter fire.
VR 2.60.11 अनुष्टुप्
तां ततः संपरिष्वज्य विलपन्तीं तपस्विनीम् । व्यपनिन्युः सुदुःखार्तां कौसल्यां व्यावहारिकाः ॥
tāṃ tataḥ saṃpariṣvajya vilapantīṃ tapasvinīm | vyapaninyuḥ suduḥkhārtāṃ kausalyāṃ vyāvahārikāḥ ||
English Translation
As embracing the (dead) body, that unfortunate lady was bewailing, the courtiers had the distressed (queen) removed from there.
VR 2.60.12 अनुष्टुप्
तैलद्रोण्यामथामात्याः संवेश्य जगतीपतिम् । राज्ञः सर्वाण्यथादिष्टाश्चक्रुः कर्माण्यनन्तरम् ॥
tailadroṇyāmathāmātyāḥ saṃveśya jagatīpatim | rājñaḥ sarvāṇyathādiṣṭāścakruḥ karmāṇyanantaram ||
English Translation
Then placing the corpse of the king in a (capacious) pan with oil, the courtiers performed the mourning rites of the monarch.
VR 2.60.13 अनुष्टुप्
न तु संकलनं राज्ञो विना पुत्रेण मन्त्रिणः । सर्वज्ञाः कर्तुमीषुस्ते ततो रक्षन्ति भूमिपम् ॥
na tu saṃkalanaṃ rājño vinā putreṇa mantriṇaḥ | sarvajñāḥ kartumīṣuste tato rakṣanti bhūmipam ||
English Translation
But well versed in everything, the counsellors, in the absence of his son, did not perform the funeral obsequies of the king; and therefore they placed his body stretched in the pan of oil. Alas! at length concluding it for certain that the king was dead, the ladies burst out into lamentaions.
VR 2.60.14 अनुष्टुप्
तैलद्रोण्यां तु सचिवैः शायितं तं नराधिपम् । हा मृतोऽयमिति ज्ञात्वा स्त्रियस्ताः पर्यदेवयन् ॥
tailadroṇyāṃ tu sacivaiḥ śāyitaṃ taṃ narādhipam | hā mṛto'yamiti jñātvā striyastāḥ paryadevayan ||
English Translation
On seeing the king's body laid in the oil vat by the counsellors, the women cried Alas, the king is dead.
VR 2.60.15 अनुष्टुप्
बाहूनुद्यम्य कृपणा नेत्रप्रस्रवणैर्मुखैः । रुदन्त्यः शोकसंतप्ताः कृपणं पर्यदेवयन् ॥
bāhūnudyamya kṛpaṇā netraprasravaṇairmukhaiḥ | rudantyaḥ śokasaṃtaptāḥ kṛpaṇaṃ paryadevayan ||
English Translation
And raising their arms, with tears trickling down their faces, they in dire affliction and extremely exercised with grief, lamented.
VR 2.60.16 अनुष्टुप्
निशानक्षत्रहीनेव स्त्रीव भर्तृविवर्जिता । पुरी नाराजतायोध्या हीना राज्ञा महात्मना ॥
niśānakṣatrahīneva strīva bhartṛvivarjitā | purī nārājatāyodhyā hīnā rājñā mahātmanā ||
English Translation
Like a night without stars, like a fair one forsaken by her husband, the city of Ayodhyā without the magnanimous monarch did not appear delightful as it had done before, with the populace filled with tears, the ladies uttering exclamations of distress, and the terraces and courts deserted.
VR 2.60.17 अनुष्टुप्
बाष्पपर्याकुलजना हाहाभूतकुलाङ्गना । शून्यचत्वरवेश्मान्ता न बभ्राज यथापुरम् ॥
bāṣpaparyākulajanā hāhābhūtakulāṅganā | śūnyacatvaraveśmāntā na babhrāja yathāpuram ||
English Translation
Like a night without stars, like a fair one forsaken by her husband, the city of Ayodhyā without the magnanimous monarch did not appear delightful as it had done before, with the populace filled with tears, the ladies uttering exclamations of distress, and the terraces and courts deserted.
VR 2.60.18 वंशस्थम्
गतप्रभा द्यौरिव भास्करं विना; व्यपेतनक्षत्रगणेव शर्वरी । पुरी बभासे रहिता महात्मना; न चास्रकण्ठाकुलमार्गचत्वरा ॥
gataprabhā dyauriva bhāskaraṃ vinā; vyapetanakṣatragaṇeva śarvarī | purī babhāse rahitā mahātmanā; na cāsrakaṇṭhākulamārgacatvarā ||
English Translation
And with her terraces overflowing with tears that flooded the throats of the mourners, the city appeared like the welkin without its splendour in the absence of the sun, or the night with the stars enveloped.
VR 2.60.19 वंशस्थम्
नराश्च नार्यश्च समेत्य संघशो; विगर्हमाणा भरतस्य मातरम् । तदा नगर्यां नरदेवसंक्षये; बभूवुरार्ता न च शर्म लेभिरे ॥
narāśca nāryaśca sametya saṃghaśo; vigarhamāṇā bharatasya mātaram | tadā nagaryāṃ naradevasaṃkṣaye; babhūvurārtā na ca śarma lebhire ||
English Translation
And on on the demise of that illustrious personage, in the city men and women in multitudes, censuring Bharata's mother, became extremely distressed, and did not attain peace of mind.
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