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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇam • Kāṇḍa 2 (Ayodhyākāṇḍa) • Sarga 71

Ayodhyākāṇḍa Sarga 71

अयोध्याकाण्डम् • सर्गः 71

Ayodhyākāṇḍa Sarga 71 of the classical Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa with 25 verses.

Total: 25 Verses • Citations: VR 2.71.1–25 • 175 Lexicon Terms
VR 2.71.1 अनुष्टुप्
ततो दशाहेऽतिगते कृतशौचो नृपात्मजः । द्वादशेऽहनि संप्राप्ते श्राद्धकर्माण्यकारयत् ॥
tato daśāhe'tigate kṛtaśauco nṛpātmajaḥ | dvādaśe'hani saṃprāpte śrāddhakarmāṇyakārayat ||
English Translation
When the ten days had gone by, the king's son, his uncleanness (consequent on the demise of his father) removed, performed the sraddha on the twelfth day.
VR 2.71.2 अनुष्टुप्
ब्राह्मणेभ्यो ददौ रत्नं धनमन्नं च पुष्कलम् । बास्तिकं बहुशुक्लं च गाश्चापि शतशस्तथा ॥
brāhmaṇebhyo dadau ratnaṃ dhanamannaṃ ca puṣkalam | bāstikaṃ bahuśuklaṃ ca gāścāpi śataśastathā ||
English Translation
During the shraddha ceremony (obsequies) Bharata bestowed on brahmins precious stones, wealth, large quantities of rice, highly valuable garments and various gems.
VR 2.71.3 अनुष्टुप्
दासीदासं च यानं च वेश्मानि सुमहान्ति च । ब्राह्मणेभ्यो ददौ पुत्रो राज्ञस्तस्यौर्ध्वदैहिकम् ॥
dāsīdāsaṃ ca yānaṃ ca veśmāni sumahānti ca | brāhmaṇebhyo dadau putro rājñastasyaurdhvadaihikam ||
English Translation
At the time of performing the rites pertaining to the other world, Bharata bestowed on brahmins herds of white goats, cows in hundreds, male and female servants and spacious houses and carriages.
VR 2.71.4 अनुष्टुप्
ततः प्रभातसमये दिवसेऽथ त्रयोदशे । विललाप महाबाहुर्भरतः शोकमूर्छितः ॥
tataḥ prabhātasamaye divase'tha trayodaśe | vilalāpa mahābāhurbharataḥ śokamūrchitaḥ ||
English Translation
And on the thirteenth day, the long armed Bharata, overwhelmed with grief, burst into lamentation.
VR 2.71.5 अनुष्टुप्
शब्दापिहितकण्ठश्च शोधनार्थमुपागतः । चितामूले पितुर्वाक्यमिदमाह सुदुःखितः ॥
śabdāpihitakaṇṭhaśca śodhanārthamupāgataḥ | citāmūle piturvākyamidamāha suduḥkhitaḥ ||
English Translation
Thereafter at the hour of dawn on the thirteenth day mightyarmed Bharata visited the cemetery to perform the purificatory ceremony. Approaching the place of the funeral pyre of his father, he lamented in the intensity of grief:
VR 2.71.6 अनुष्टुप्
तात यस्मिन्निषृष्टोऽहं त्वया भ्रातरि राघवे । तस्मिन्वनं प्रव्रजिते शून्ये त्यक्तोऽस्म्यहं त्वया ॥
tāta yasminniṣṛṣṭo'haṃ tvayā bhrātari rāghave | tasminvanaṃ pravrajite śūnye tyakto'smyahaṃ tvayā ||
English Translation
And coming to the foot of the funeral pyre for gathering the bones of the departed, he overcome with grief, with his throat obstructed with the sounds of lamentation, said, “my father, on brother Rāma, to whom I had been consigned by you, having gone to the forest, I have been cast by you into vacancy.
VR 2.71.7 अनुष्टुप्
यथागतिरनाथायाः पुत्रः प्रव्राजितो वनम् । तामम्बां तात कौसल्यां त्यक्त्वा त्वं क्व गतो नृप ॥
yathāgatiranāthāyāḥ putraḥ pravrājito vanam | tāmambāṃ tāta kausalyāṃ tyaktvā tvaṃ kva gato nṛpa ||
English Translation
My father, forsaking forlorn mother Kausalya, whose stay her son, had gone to the forest, where have you gone, Oking?
VR 2.71.8 अनुष्टुप्
दृष्ट्वा भस्मारुणं तच्च दग्धास्थिस्थानमण्डलम् । पितुः शरीर निर्वाणं निष्टनन्विषसाद ह ॥
dṛṣṭvā bhasmāruṇaṃ tacca dagdhāsthisthānamaṇḍalam | pituḥ śarīra nirvāṇaṃ niṣṭananviṣasāda ha ||
English Translation
Seeing the spot where lay the bones of his father mixed with ashes and embers Bharata looking at the place where occurred the dissolution of his father's fame, carried away by emotion, indulged in sorrow.
VR 2.71.9 अनुष्टुप्
स तु दृष्ट्वा रुदन्दीनः पपात धरणीतले । उत्थाप्यमानः शक्रस्य यन्त्र ध्वज इव च्युतः ॥
sa tu dṛṣṭvā rudandīnaḥ papāta dharaṇītale | utthāpyamānaḥ śakrasya yantra dhvaja iva cyutaḥ ||
English Translation
And seeing this, he exceedingly distressed, crying fell down to the ground. And raised up (by others) he looked like an uplifted banner of Sakra bound to an engine.
VR 2.71.10 अनुष्टुप्
अभिपेतुस्ततः सर्वे तस्यामात्याः शुचिव्रतम् । अन्तकाले निपतितं ययातिमृषयो यथा ॥
abhipetustataḥ sarve tasyāmātyāḥ śucivratam | antakāle nipatitaṃ yayātimṛṣayo yathā ||
English Translation
His counsellors rushed towards that one of pure vows, like the saints making towards Yayati as he was falling on the extinction of his merit.
VR 2.71.11 अनुष्टुप्
शत्रुघ्नश्चापि भरतं दृष्ट्वा शोकपरिप्लुतम् । विसंज्ञो न्यपतद्भूमौ भूमिपालमनुस्मरन् ॥
śatrughnaścāpi bharataṃ dṛṣṭvā śokapariplutam | visaṃjño nyapatadbhūmau bhūmipālamanusmaran ||
English Translation
Seeing Bharata plunged in grief, Satrughna remembering the king, fell down to the ground deprived of consciousness.
VR 2.71.12 अनुष्टुप्
उन्मत्त इव निश्चेता विललाप सुदुःखितः । स्मृत्वा पितुर्गुणाङ्गानि तानि तानि तदा तदा ॥
unmatta iva niścetā vilalāpa suduḥkhitaḥ | smṛtvā piturguṇāṅgāni tāni tāni tadā tadā ||
English Translation
And devoid of sense and like a madman, he in grief of heart began to lament remembering all the virtues of his father again and again.
VR 2.71.13 अनुष्टुप्
मन्थरा प्रभवस्तीव्रः कैकेयीग्राहसंकुलः । वरदानमयोऽक्षोभ्योऽमज्जयच्छोकसागरः ॥
mantharā prabhavastīvraḥ kaikeyīgrāhasaṃkulaḥ | varadānamayo'kṣobhyo'majjayacchokasāgaraḥ ||
English Translation
This terrible sea of grief owing its origin to Mantharā, containing its ferocious aquatic animal in the shape of Kaikeyī, and incapable of being disturbed in consequence of the bestowal of the boon drowns (us).
VR 2.71.14 अनुष्टुप्
सुकुमारं च बालं च सततं लालितं त्वया । क्व तात भरतं हित्वा विलपन्तं गतो भवान् ॥
sukumāraṃ ca bālaṃ ca satataṃ lālitaṃ tvayā | kva tāta bharataṃ hitvā vilapantaṃ gato bhavān ||
English Translation
O father, where have you gone, leaving the tender and youthful Bharata fondled by you, to lament (your loss).
VR 2.71.15 अनुष्टुप्
ननु भोज्येषु पानेषु वस्त्रेष्वाभरणेषु च । प्रवारयसि नः सर्वांस्तन्नः कोऽद्य करिष्यति ॥
nanu bhojyeṣu pāneṣu vastreṣvābharaṇeṣu ca | pravārayasi naḥ sarvāṃstannaḥ ko'dya kariṣyati ||
English Translation
You did use to confer on us eatables and drinkable and attires and ornaments. Who will now do so?
VR 2.71.16 अनुष्टुप्
अवदारण काले तु पृथिवी नावदीर्यते । विहीना या त्वया राज्ञा धर्मज्ञेन महात्मना ॥
avadāraṇa kāle tu pṛthivī nāvadīryate | vihīnā yā tvayā rājñā dharmajñena mahātmanā ||
English Translation
Deprived of you, the high souled king cognisant of duty, the earth albeit her time of riving is come, is not yet riven.
VR 2.71.17 अनुष्टुप्
पितरि स्वर्गमापन्ने रामे चारण्यमाश्रिते । किं मे जीवित सामर्थ्यं प्रवेक्ष्यामि हुताशनम् ॥
pitari svargamāpanne rāme cāraṇyamāśrite | kiṃ me jīvita sāmarthyaṃ pravekṣyāmi hutāśanam ||
English Translation
My father having gone to heaven and Rāma having sought the woods, how can I live? I will enter fire.
VR 2.71.18 अनुष्टुप्
हीनो भ्रात्रा च पित्रा च शून्यामिक्ष्वाकुपालिताम् । अयोध्यां न प्रवेक्ष्यामि प्रवेक्ष्यामि तपोवनम् ॥
hīno bhrātrā ca pitrā ca śūnyāmikṣvākupālitām | ayodhyāṃ na pravekṣyāmi pravekṣyāmi tapovanam ||
English Translation
Bereft of my brother and sire, I will not enter the empty Ayodhyā governed by the Ikşvākus. I will repair to the forest of asceticism.
VR 2.71.19 अनुष्टुप्
तयोर्विलपितं श्रुत्वा व्यसनं चान्ववेक्ष्य तत् । भृशमार्ततरा भूयः सर्व एवानुगामिनः ॥
tayorvilapitaṃ śrutvā vyasanaṃ cānvavekṣya tat | bhṛśamārtatarā bhūyaḥ sarva evānugāminaḥ ||
English Translation
Hearing his lamentations and seeing that disaster, all the followers became all the more distressed.
VR 2.71.20 अनुष्टुप्
ततो विषण्णौ श्रान्तौ च शत्रुघ्नभरतावुभौ । धरण्यां संव्यचेष्टेतां भग्नशृङ्गाविवर्षभौ ॥
tato viṣaṇṇau śrāntau ca śatrughnabharatāvubhau | dharaṇyāṃ saṃvyaceṣṭetāṃ bhagnaśṛṅgāvivarṣabhau ||
English Translation
Then depressed and exhausted, both Šatrughna and Bharata rolled on the earth like two bulls with their horns fractured,
VR 2.71.21 अनुष्टुप्
ततः प्रकृतिमान्वैद्यः पितुरेषां पुरोहितः । वसिष्ठो भरतं वाक्यमुत्थाप्य तमुवाच ह ॥
tataḥ prakṛtimānvaidyaḥ pitureṣāṃ purohitaḥ | vasiṣṭho bharataṃ vākyamutthāpya tamuvāca ha ||
English Translation
Then the all-knowing priest of their father possessed of sterling worth, Vasistha, raising Bharata, said to him.
VR 2.71.22 अनुष्टुप्
त्रीणि द्वन्द्वानि भूतेषु प्रवृत्तान्यविशेषतः । तेषु चापरिहार्येषु नैवं भवितुमर्हति ॥
trīṇi dvandvāni bhūteṣu pravṛttānyaviśeṣataḥ | teṣu cāparihāryeṣu naivaṃ bhavitumarhati ||
English Translation
Three couples* pertain in especial to all creatures and these being inevitable, you ought not to bear yourself thus. *Hunger and thirst, ignorance and grief, sickness and death.
VR 2.71.23 अनुष्टुप्
सुमन्त्रश्चापि शत्रुघ्नमुत्थाप्याभिप्रसाद्य च । श्रावयामास तत्त्वज्ञः सर्वभूतभवाभवौ ॥
sumantraścāpi śatrughnamutthāpyābhiprasādya ca | śrāvayāmāsa tattvajñaḥ sarvabhūtabhavābhavau ||
English Translation
And Sumantra also versed in the nature of things, raising up Šatrughna and pacifying him, discoursed the birth and heath of all beings.
VR 2.71.24 अनुष्टुप्
उत्थितौ तौ नरव्याघ्रौ प्रकाशेते यशस्विनौ । वर्षातपपरिक्लिन्नौ पृथगिन्द्रध्वजाविव ॥
utthitau tau naravyāghrau prakāśete yaśasvinau | varṣātapapariklinnau pṛthagindradhvajāviva ||
English Translation
Being raised up, those renowned chiefs of men looked like Indra's banner stained by shine and shower.
VR 2.71.25 अनुष्टुप्
अश्रूणि परिमृद्नन्तौ रक्ताक्षौ दीनभाषिणौ । अमात्यास्त्वरयन्ति स्म तनयौ चापराः क्रियाः ॥
aśrūṇi parimṛdnantau raktākṣau dīnabhāṣiṇau | amātyāstvarayanti sma tanayau cāparāḥ kriyāḥ ||
English Translation
And as the princes stood there shedding tears, with reddened eyes, and speaking sadly, the courers urged nem on in behalf of the rites that remained.
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