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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇam • Kāṇḍa 2 (Ayodhyākāṇḍa) • Sarga 57

Ayodhyākāṇḍa Sarga 57

अयोध्याकाण्डम् • सर्गः 57

Ayodhyākāṇḍa Sarga 57 of the classical Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa with 39 verses.

Total: 39 Verses • Citations: VR 2.57.1–39 • 175 Lexicon Terms
VR 2.57.1 अनुष्टुप्
प्रतिबुद्धो मुहुर्तेन शोकोपहतचेतनः । अथ राजा दशरथः स चिन्तामभ्यपद्यत ॥
pratibuddho muhurtena śokopahatacetanaḥ | atha rājā daśarathaḥ sa cintāmabhyapadyata ||
English Translation
Starting in a moment from sleep, king Dasaratha deprived (almost) of his consciousness by grief, (again) became a prey to thought.
VR 2.57.2 अनुष्टुप्
रामलक्ष्मणयोश्चैव विवासाद्वासवोपमम् । आविवेशोपसर्गस्तं तमः सूर्यमिवासुरम् ॥
rāmalakṣmaṇayoścaiva vivāsādvāsavopamam | āviveśopasargastaṃ tamaḥ sūryamivāsuram ||
English Translation
I consequence of the exile of Rāma and Laks mana, the king resembling Våsava was overpowered by grief, like the darkness of Rāhu enveloping the sun. was own
VR 2.57.3 उपजातिः
स राजा रजनीं षष्ठीं रामे प्रव्रजिते वनम् । अर्धरात्रे दशरथः संस्मरन्दुष्कृतं कृतम् । कौसल्यां पुत्रशोकार्तामिदं वचनमब्रवीत् ॥
sa rājā rajanīṃ ṣaṣṭhīṃ rāme pravrajite vanam | ardharātre daśarathaḥ saṃsmaranduṣkṛtaṃ kṛtam | kausalyāṃ putraśokārtāmidaṃ vacanamabravīt ||
English Translation
And on the sixth night after Rāma had repaired to the forest, the king Dasaratha, when it midnight, remembered his unrighteous act.
VR 2.57.4 अनुष्टुप्
यदाचरति कल्याणि शुभं वा यदि वाशुभम् । तदेव लभते भद्रे कर्ता कर्मजमात्मनः ॥
yadācarati kalyāṇi śubhaṃ vā yadi vāśubham | tadeva labhate bhadre kartā karmajamātmanaḥ ||
English Translation
As are the actions of one, O auspicious one, whether good otherwise, the consequences, O gentle lady, reaped by the doer of them.
VR 2.57.5 अनुष्टुप्
गुरु लाघवमर्थानामारम्भे कर्मणां फलम् । दोषं वा यो न जानाति स बाल इति होच्यते ॥
guru lāghavamarthānāmārambhe karmaṇāṃ phalam | doṣaṃ vā yo na jānāti sa bāla iti hocyate ||
English Translation
He that on the eve of beginning an action either relating to this world or the next, does not take into consideration the fact that actions entail consequences light or grave, disagreeable (or otherwise), is styled a child.
VR 2.57.6 अनुष्टुप्
कश्चिदाम्रवणं छित्त्वा पलाशांश्च निषिञ्चति । पुष्पं दृष्ट्वा फले गृध्नुः स शोचति फलागमे ॥
kaścidāmravaṇaṃ chittvā palāśāṃśca niṣiñcati | puṣpaṃ dṛṣṭvā phale gṛdhnuḥ sa śocati phalāgame ||
English Translation
He that cutting down a mango grove, waters Palasa trees, beholding the flowers (blooming), will covet fruits; and grieve when their season arrives. The person that without apprehending (the principle of causation) rushed to action, grieves at the season of fruits, even like him that waters kinsuka trees (hewing down his mango grove). or are
VR 2.57.7 अनुष्टुप्
सोऽहमाम्रवणं छित्त्वा पलाशांश्च न्यषेचयम् । रामं फलागमे त्यक्त्वा पश्चाच्छोचामि दुर्मतिः ॥
so'hamāmravaṇaṃ chittvā palāśāṃśca nyaṣecayam | rāmaṃ phalāgame tyaktvā paścācchocāmi durmatiḥ ||
English Translation
And is this way, I fool that I am having hewn down my grove of mangoes and watered Palāsas, having renounced Räma in the season of fruit, is grieving in the end.
VR 2.57.8 उपजातिः
लब्धशब्देन कौसल्ये कुमारेण धनुष्मता । कुमारः शब्दवेधीति मया पापमिदं कृतम् । तदिदं मेऽनुसंप्राप्तं देवि दुःखं स्वयं कृतम् ॥
labdhaśabdena kausalye kumāreṇa dhanuṣmatā | kumāraḥ śabdavedhīti mayā pāpamidaṃ kṛtam | tadidaṃ me'nusaṃprāptaṃ devi duḥkhaṃ svayaṃ kṛtam ||
English Translation
Having, O Kausalyā, earned the expression, 'The Prince can pierce his aim by sound alone,', I, a prince and bowman, did this offence.
VR 2.57.9 अनुष्टुप्
संमोहादिह बालेन यथा स्याद्भक्षितं विषम् । एवं ममाप्यविज्ञातं शब्दवेध्यमयं फलम् ॥
saṃmohādiha bālena yathā syādbhakṣitaṃ viṣam | evaṃ mamāpyavijñātaṃ śabdavedhyamayaṃ phalam ||
English Translation
Like some one who is deluded by palasa trees I too did not realise the consequences of shooting the target following the direction of the sound.
VR 2.57.10 अनुष्टुप्
देव्यनूढा त्वमभवो युवराजो भवाम्यहम् । ततः प्रावृडनुप्राप्ता मदकामविवर्धिनी ॥
devyanūḍhā tvamabhavo yuvarājo bhavāmyaham | tataḥ prāvṛḍanuprāptā madakāmavivardhinī ||
English Translation
O lady, you were then unwedded; and I was a youthful prince. And it was at this time that the rainy season increasing my desire set in.
VR 2.57.11 अनुष्टुप्
उपास्यहि रसान्भौमांस्तप्त्वा च जगदंशुभिः । परेताचरितां भीमां रविराविशते दिशम् ॥
upāsyahi rasānbhaumāṃstaptvā ca jagadaṃśubhiḥ | paretācaritāṃ bhīmāṃ ravirāviśate diśam ||
English Translation
Drawing moisture from the ground and heated the earth by his rays, the Sun goes to the dreadful quarter whither repair the dead.
VR 2.57.12 अनुष्टुप्
उष्णमन्तर्दधे सद्यः स्निग्धा ददृशिरे घनाः । ततो जहृषिरे सर्वे भेकसारङ्गबर्हिणः ॥
uṣṇamantardadhe sadyaḥ snigdhā dadṛśire ghanāḥ | tato jahṛṣire sarve bhekasāraṅgabarhiṇaḥ ||
English Translation
The heat was immediately dispelled, and the gelid clouds snowed themselves; and frogs and Sārangas and peacocks began to rejoice; and, finding it unpleasant, the feathered ones bathed and with the surface of their plumage shrunk up from the wet, took refuge in trees shaken by the wind and rain.
VR 2.57.13 अनुष्टुप्
पतितेनाम्भसा छन्नः पतमानेन चासकृत् । आबभौ मत्तसारङ्गस्तोयराशिरिवाचलः ॥
patitenāmbhasā channaḥ patamānena cāsakṛt | ābabhau mattasāraṅgastoyarāśirivācalaḥ ||
English Translation
And the hill graced by maddened Sārangas, covered by showers falling simultaneously looked like a mass of waters.
VR 2.57.14 अनुष्टुप्
तस्मिन्नतिसुखे काले धनुष्मानिषुमान्रथी । व्यायाम कृतसंकल्पः सरयूमन्वगां नदीम् ॥
tasminnatisukhe kāle dhanuṣmāniṣumānrathī | vyāyāma kṛtasaṃkalpaḥ sarayūmanvagāṃ nadīm ||
English Translation
At such a sweet hour, I intent upon taking exercise, taking my bow and arrows and mounted on my car, sallied out for the river Sarayū, with the intention that I with my senses under control, should in the watery expense slay any buffalo, elephant, or any other beast that mighty have come there in the night.
VR 2.57.15 अनुष्टुप्
निपाने महिषं रात्रौ गजं वाभ्यागतं नदीम् । अन्यं वा श्वापदं कंचिज्जिघांसुरजितेन्द्रियः ॥
nipāne mahiṣaṃ rātrau gajaṃ vābhyāgataṃ nadīm | anyaṃ vā śvāpadaṃ kaṃcijjighāṃsurajitendriyaḥ ||
English Translation
At such a sweet hour, I intent upon taking exercise, taking my bow and arrows and mounted on my car, sallied out for the river Sarayū, with the intention that I with my senses under control, should in the watery expense slay any buffalo, elephant, or any other beast that mighty have come there in the night.
VR 2.57.16 अनुष्टुप्
अथान्धकारे त्वश्रौषं जले कुम्भस्य पर्यतः । अचक्षुर्विषये घोषं वारणस्येव नर्दतः ॥
athāndhakāre tvaśrauṣaṃ jale kumbhasya paryataḥ | acakṣurviṣaye ghoṣaṃ vāraṇasyeva nardataḥ ||
English Translation
And (coming there) while it was so dark that : nothing could be discovered, I heard sounds of a filling pitcher proceeding from the waters; resembling the roars of an elephant.
VR 2.57.17 अनुष्टुप्
ततोऽहं शरमुद्धृत्य दीप्तमाशीविषोपमम् । अमुञ्चं निशितं बाणमहमाशीविषोपमम् ॥
tato'haṃ śaramuddhṛtya dīptamāśīviṣopamam | amuñcaṃ niśitaṃ bāṇamahamāśīviṣopamam ||
English Translation
Wishing to kill the elephant, I seized my arrow glowing like a venomous snake and aimed it towards the sound.
VR 2.57.18 उपजातिः
तत्र वागुषसि व्यक्ता प्रादुरासीद्वनौकसः । हा हेति पततस्तोये वागभूत्तत्र मानुषी । कथमस्मद्विधे शस्त्रं निपतेत्तु तपस्विनि ॥
tatra vāguṣasi vyaktā prādurāsīdvanaukasaḥ | hā heti patatastoye vāgabhūttatra mānuṣī | kathamasmadvidhe śastraṃ nipatettu tapasvini ||
English Translation
Then I discharged a sharp shaft like a venomous serpent. In the morning twilight I saw that the shaft had hit the vital part of the body of a forest dweller and his cry of 'Alas', was clearly heard as he fell in the water.
VR 2.57.19 अनुष्टुप्
प्रविविक्तां नदीं रात्रावुदाहारोऽहमागतः । इषुणाभिहतः केन कस्य वा किं कृतं मया ॥
praviviktāṃ nadīṃ rātrāvudāhāro'hamāgataḥ | iṣuṇābhihataḥ kena kasya vā kiṃ kṛtaṃ mayā ||
English Translation
'I have come to this lonely spot of the river to take water. Who has hit me with this arrow? What (harm) have I done to any one?'
VR 2.57.20 अनुष्टुप्
ऋषेर्हि न्यस्त दण्डस्य वने वन्येन जीवतः । कथं नु शस्त्रेण वधो मद्विधस्य विधीयते ॥
ṛṣerhi nyasta daṇḍasya vane vanyena jīvataḥ | kathaṃ nu śastreṇa vadho madvidhasya vidhīyate ||
English Translation
'Renouncing violence I live the life of an ascetic on forest produce. Why should any one kill me with a weapon?
VR 2.57.21 अनुष्टुप्
जटाभारधरस्यैव वल्कलाजिनवाससः । को वधेन ममार्थी स्यात्किं वास्यापकृतं मया ॥
jaṭābhāradharasyaiva valkalājinavāsasaḥ | ko vadhena mamārthī syātkiṃ vāsyāpakṛtaṃ mayā ||
English Translation
'Who wants to kill me who lives like an ascetic with matted hair and wearing bark or the skin of an antelope? What harm have I done to him?
VR 2.57.22 अनुष्टुप्
एवं निष्फलमारब्धं केवलानर्थसंहितम् । न कश्चित्साधु मन्येत यथैव गुरुतल्पगम् ॥
evaṃ niṣphalamārabdhaṃ kevalānarthasaṃhitam | na kaścitsādhu manyeta yathaiva gurutalpagam ||
English Translation
'Whoever it is, he has committed only a mischievous and senseless act. This sin like a disciple sleeping on the bed of his preceptor none will approve of.
VR 2.57.23 अनुष्टुप्
नेमं तथानुशोचामि जीवितक्षयमात्मनः । मातरं पितरं चोभावनुशोचामि मद्विधे ॥
nemaṃ tathānuśocāmi jīvitakṣayamātmanaḥ | mātaraṃ pitaraṃ cobhāvanuśocāmi madvidhe ||
English Translation
'I do not regret so much about the loss of my own life as about my mother and father after I am dead.
VR 2.57.24 अनुष्टुप्
तदेतान्मिथुनं वृद्धं चिरकालभृतं मया । मयि पञ्चत्वमापन्ने कां वृत्तिं वर्तयिष्यति ॥
tadetānmithunaṃ vṛddhaṃ cirakālabhṛtaṃ mayā | mayi pañcatvamāpanne kāṃ vṛttiṃ vartayiṣyati ||
English Translation
'So long I have been supporting this aged couple. After I am dead, how will they live?
VR 2.57.25 अनुष्टुप्
वृद्धौ च मातापितरावहं चैकेषुणा हतः । केन स्म निहताः सर्वे सुबालेनाकृतात्मना ॥
vṛddhau ca mātāpitarāvahaṃ caikeṣuṇā hataḥ | kena sma nihatāḥ sarve subālenākṛtātmanā ||
English Translation
'My aged parents along with me are killed by a single arrow. Who is that malicious knave who has slain us?
VR 2.57.26 अनुष्टुप्
तं गिरं करुणां श्रुत्वा मम धर्मानुकाङ्क्षिणः । कराभ्यां सशरं चापं व्यथितस्यापतद्भुवि ॥
taṃ giraṃ karuṇāṃ śrutvā mama dharmānukāṅkṣiṇaḥ | karābhyāṃ saśaraṃ cāpaṃ vyathitasyāpatadbhuvi ||
English Translation
On hearing the piteous voice the bow and arrow dropped from my (trembling) hands since I was keen on following the righteous path.
VR 2.57.27 अनुष्टुप्
तं देशमहमागम्य दीनसत्त्वः सुदुर्मनाः । अपश्यमिषुणा तीरे सरय्वास्तापसं हतम् ॥
taṃ deśamahamāgamya dīnasattvaḥ sudurmanāḥ | apaśyamiṣuṇā tīre sarayvāstāpasaṃ hatam ||
English Translation
With dissipated energy and intensely troubled mind, I reached the bank of river Sarayu and there I saw the ascetic lying struck by the arrow and with scattered locks of hair. The water pitcher was thrown away and his body smeared with blood and dust as he lay on the ground.
VR 2.57.28 अनुष्टुप्
स मामुद्वीक्ष्य नेत्राभ्यां त्रस्तमस्वस्थचेतसम् । इत्युवाच वचः क्रूरं दिधक्षन्निव तेजसा ॥
sa māmudvīkṣya netrābhyāṃ trastamasvasthacetasam | ityuvāca vacaḥ krūraṃ didhakṣanniva tejasā ||
English Translation
I was mentally stricken and frightened. He looked up as if buring me with the energy of his eyes. Then he uttered the words 'A cruel act'
VR 2.57.29 अनुष्टुप्
किं तवापकृतं राजन्वने निवसता मया । जिहीर्षुरम्भो गुर्वर्थं यदहं ताडितस्त्वया ॥
kiṃ tavāpakṛtaṃ rājanvane nivasatā mayā | jihīrṣurambho gurvarthaṃ yadahaṃ tāḍitastvayā ||
English Translation
What wrong, O monarch, had I residing in the woods done you, that coming to procure water for my parents, I have been thus afflicted by. you?
VR 2.57.30 अनुष्टुप्
एकेन खलु बाणेन मर्मण्यभिहते मयि । द्वावन्धौ निहतौ वृद्धौ माता जनयिता च मे ॥
ekena khalu bāṇena marmaṇyabhihate mayi | dvāvandhau nihatau vṛddhau mātā janayitā ca me ||
English Translation
By piercing my marrow with a shaft, you have slain both my aged and blind father and mother.
VR 2.57.31 अनुष्टुप्
तौ नूनं दुर्बलावन्धौ मत्प्रतीक्षौ पिपासितौ । चिरमाशाकृतां तृष्णां कष्टां संधारयिष्यतः ॥
tau nūnaṃ durbalāvandhau matpratīkṣau pipāsitau | ciramāśākṛtāṃ tṛṣṇāṃ kaṣṭāṃ saṃdhārayiṣyataḥ ||
English Translation
Surely, they feeble and blind, who afflicted by thirst are remaining in expectation of me, will now bear (the stress and tension of) the expectation as well as the parching thirst.
VR 2.57.32 अनुष्टुप्
न नूनं तपसो वास्ति फलयोगः श्रुतस्य वा । पिता यन्मां न जानाति शयानं पतितं भुवि ॥
na nūnaṃ tapaso vāsti phalayogaḥ śrutasya vā | pitā yanmāṃ na jānāti śayānaṃ patitaṃ bhuvi ||
English Translation
Surely asceticism and study carry no fruit with them, since I lying low on the ground, my father knows nothing about it.
VR 2.57.33 अनुष्टुप्
जानन्नपि च किं कुर्यादशक्तिरपरिक्रमः । भिद्यमानमिवाशक्तस्त्रातुमन्यो नगो नगम् ॥
jānannapi ca kiṃ kuryādaśaktiraparikramaḥ | bhidyamānamivāśaktastrātumanyo nago nagam ||
English Translation
And what could he do, even if he knew it, being as he is incapable and unable to go about? One tree cannot rescue another that is being battered (by the winds).
VR 2.57.34 अनुष्टुप्
पितुस्त्वमेव मे गत्वा शीघ्रमाचक्ष्व राघव । न त्वामनुदहेत्क्रुद्धो वनं वह्निरिवैधितः ॥
pitustvameva me gatvā śīghramācakṣva rāghava | na tvāmanudahetkruddho vanaṃ vahnirivaidhitaḥ ||
English Translation
Do you, O descendant of Raghu, yourself going to my father, speedily inform of him this that has occurred. But take care that like a fire waxing furious consuming a woods, he in his ire do not burn you.
VR 2.57.35 अनुष्टुप्
इयमेकपदी राजन्यतो मे पितुराश्रमः । तं प्रसादय गत्वा त्वं न त्वां स कुपितः शपेत् ॥
iyamekapadī rājanyato me piturāśramaḥ | taṃ prasādaya gatvā tvaṃ na tvāṃ sa kupitaḥ śapet ||
English Translation
This narrow way, O king, will lead you to my father's dwelling. Do you going there, pacify him, so that getting wroth he may not curse you.
VR 2.57.36 अनुष्टुप्
विशल्यं कुरु मां राजन्मर्म मे निशितः शरः । रुणद्धि मृदु सोत्सेधं तीरमम्बुरयो यथा ॥
viśalyaṃ kuru māṃ rājanmarma me niśitaḥ śaraḥ | ruṇaddhi mṛdu sotsedhaṃ tīramamburayo yathā ||
English Translation
Do you (now), O king, take out the arrow. Your sharpened shaft afflicts my marrow, like the tide of a river wearing away a hollowheaving sand bank.
VR 2.57.37 अनुष्टुप्
न द्विजातिरहं राजन्मा भूत्ते मनसो व्यथा । शूद्रायामस्मि वैश्येन जातो जनपदाधिप ॥
na dvijātirahaṃ rājanmā bhūtte manaso vyathā | śūdrāyāmasmi vaiśyena jāto janapadādhipa ||
English Translation
'O king Dasaratha, lord of the land, I am not a brahmin. Feel no sense of guilt in your mind. I was born of a sudra mother and a vaisya father.
VR 2.57.38 अनुष्टुप्
इतीव वदतः कृच्छ्राद्बाणाभिहतमर्मणः । तस्य त्वानम्यमानस्य तं बाणमहमुद्धरम् ॥
itīva vadataḥ kṛcchrādbāṇābhihatamarmaṇaḥ | tasya tvānamyamānasya taṃ bāṇamahamuddharam ||
VR 2.57.39 उपजातिः
जलार्द्रगात्रं तु विलप्य कृच्छा;न्मर्मव्रणं संततमुच्छसन्तम् । ततः सरय्वां तमहं शयानं; समीक्ष्य भद्रे सुभृशं विषण्णः ॥
jalārdragātraṃ tu vilapya kṛcchā;nmarmavraṇaṃ saṃtatamucchasantam | tataḥ sarayvāṃ tamahaṃ śayānaṃ; samīkṣya bhadre subhṛśaṃ viṣaṇṇaḥ ||
English Translation
On beholding him with his body dripping with water, and mortally wounded, and breathing hard without respite, after he had bewailed his mortal wound, lying on the banks of the Sarayü, I lamented him and was, O gentle lady, greatly aggrieved.
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