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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇam • Kāṇḍa 1 (Bālakāṇḍa) • Sarga 20

Bālakāṇḍa Sarga 20

बालकाण्डम् • सर्गः 20

Bālakāṇḍa Sarga 20 of the classical Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa with 19 verses.

Total: 19 Verses • Citations: VR 1.20.1–19 • 175 Lexicon Terms
VR 1.20.1 अनुष्टुप्
तच्छ्रुत्वा वचनं तस्य स्नेहपर्याकुलाक्षरम् । समन्युः कौशिको वाक्यं प्रत्युवच महीपतिम् ॥
tacchrutvā vacanaṃ tasya snehaparyākulākṣaram | samanyuḥ kauśiko vākyaṃ pratyuvaca mahīpatim ||
English Translation
Hearing those words of Dasaratha's composed of letters faltering with affection, Kusika's son, stirred up with anger, answered the monarch, saying,
VR 1.20.2 अनुष्टुप्
पूर्ह्वमर्थं प्रतिश्रुत्य प्रतिज्ञां हातुमिच्छसि । रागवाणामयुक्तोऽयं कुलस्यास्य विपर्ययः ॥
pūrhvamarthaṃ pratiśrutya pratijñāṃ hātumicchasi | rāgavāṇāmayukto'yaṃ kulasyāsya viparyayaḥ ||
English Translation
Having promised me first, you endeavour to renounce that proinise of yours. This surely is unworthy of a descendant of Raghu, and this can bring destruction upon the dynasty.
VR 1.20.3 अनुष्टुप्
यदिदं ते क्षमं राजन्गमिष्यामि यथागतम् । मिथ्याप्रतिज्ञः काकुत्स्थ सुखी भव सबान्धवः ॥
yadidaṃ te kṣamaṃ rājangamiṣyāmi yathāgatam | mithyāpratijñaḥ kākutstha sukhī bhava sabāndhavaḥ ||
English Translation
If, O king, in acting thus, you have acted properly, I will then repair to the place whence I had come. O Kākutstha's descendant false in promise, do you attain happiness, being surrounded by your friends.
VR 1.20.4 अनुष्टुप्
तस्य रोषपरीतस्य विश्वामित्रस्य धीमतः । चचाल वसुधा कृत्स्ना विवेश च भयं सुरान् ॥
tasya roṣaparītasya viśvāmitrasya dhīmataḥ | cacāla vasudhā kṛtsnā viveśa ca bhayaṃ surān ||
English Translation
And when the intelligent Viśvāmitra was exercised with wrath, the entire earth began to tremble, and the gods even were inspired with awe.
VR 1.20.5 अनुष्टुप्
त्रस्तरूपं तु विज्ञाय जगत्सर्वं महानृषिः । नृपतिं सुव्रतो धीरो वसिष्ठो वाक्यमब्रवीत् ॥
trastarūpaṃ tu vijñāya jagatsarvaṃ mahānṛṣiḥ | nṛpatiṃ suvrato dhīro vasiṣṭho vākyamabravīt ||
English Translation
And knowing that the entire universe was in trepidation, that mighty saint, the sedate Vasiştha of excellent vows, said these words to the king.
VR 1.20.6 अनुष्टुप्
इक्ष्वाकूणां कुले जातः साक्षाद्धर्म इवापरः । धृतिमान्सुव्रतः श्रीमान्न धर्मं हातुमर्हसि ॥
ikṣvākūṇāṃ kule jātaḥ sākṣāddharma ivāparaḥ | dhṛtimānsuvrataḥ śrīmānna dharmaṃ hātumarhasi ||
English Translation
Born in the line of Ikşvāku, you are the very second self of virtue. And endowed with patience, and auspicious, and observing excellent vows, you ought not to renounce virtue.
VR 1.20.7 अनुष्टुप्
त्रिषु लोकेषु विख्यातो धर्मात्मा इति राघवः । स्वधर्मं प्रतिपद्यस्व नाधर्मं वोढुमर्हसि ॥
triṣu lokeṣu vikhyāto dharmātmā iti rāghavaḥ | svadharmaṃ pratipadyasva nādharmaṃ voḍhumarhasi ||
English Translation
The descendant of Raghu is famed over the three worlds as righteous-souled. Do you maintain your habit of adhering to promise; for it does not behove you to act unrighteously.
VR 1.20.8 अनुष्टुप्
संश्रुत्यैवं करिष्यामीत्यकुर्वाणस्य राघव । इष्टापूर्तवधो भूयात्तस्माद्रामं विसर्जय ॥
saṃśrutyaivaṃ kariṣyāmītyakurvāṇasya rāghava | iṣṭāpūrtavadho bhūyāttasmādrāmaṃ visarjaya ||
English Translation
If having promised, I will do so, you do not act up to your word, the merit you have achieved by digging tanks, shall come to naught, therefore do you renounce Rāma!
VR 1.20.9 अनुष्टुप्
कृतास्त्रमकृतास्त्रं वा नैनं शक्ष्यन्ति राक्षसाः । गुप्तं कुशिकपुत्रेण ज्वलनेनामृतं यथा ॥
kṛtāstramakṛtāstraṃ vā nainaṃ śakṣyanti rākṣasāḥ | guptaṃ kuśikaputreṇa jvalanenāmṛtaṃ yathā ||
English Translation
Accomplished or not accomplished in weapons, the Rākṣasas cannot bear him protected by Kusika's son, like ambrosia, by flaming fire.
VR 1.20.10 अनुष्टुप्
एष विग्रहवान्धर्म एष वीर्यवतां वरः । एष बुद्ध्याधिको लोके तपसश्च परायणम् ॥
eṣa vigrahavāndharma eṣa vīryavatāṃ varaḥ | eṣa buddhyādhiko loke tapasaśca parāyaṇam ||
English Translation
This one is Virtue incarnate : this one is the foremost of those possessing prowess. This one surpass all others in learning, and is the refuge of asceticism.
VR 1.20.11 अनुष्टुप्
एषोऽस्त्रान्विविधान्वेत्ति त्रैलोक्ये सचराचरे । नैनमन्यः पुमान्वेत्ति न च वेत्स्यन्ति केचन ॥
eṣo'strānvividhānvetti trailokye sacarācare | nainamanyaḥ pumānvetti na ca vetsyanti kecana ||
English Translation
This one is congnizant of all that exist in the three worlds furnished with mobile and immobile things;. but others do not know him,-nor yet shall know him hereafter.
VR 1.20.12 अनुष्टुप्
न देवा नर्षयः केचिन्नासुरा न च राक्षसाः । गन्धर्वयक्षप्रवराः सकिंनरमहोरगाः ॥
na devā narṣayaḥ kecinnāsurā na ca rākṣasāḥ | gandharvayakṣapravarāḥ sakiṃnaramahoragāḥ ||
English Translation
And neither the gods, nor the saints, nor the immortals, nor the Rakşasas, nor the foremost of Gandharvas and Yaksas, nor the Kinnaras, nor the mighty Serpents can know him.
VR 1.20.13 अनुष्टुप्
सर्वास्त्राणि कृशाश्वस्य पुत्राः परमधार्मिकाः । कौशिकाय पुरा दत्ता यदा राज्यं प्रशासति ॥
sarvāstrāṇi kṛśāśvasya putrāḥ paramadhārmikāḥ | kauśikāya purā dattā yadā rājyaṃ praśāsati ||
English Translation
And formerly while the descendant of Kusika was ruling his kingdom, Siva conferred upon him the highly famous sons of Kțśāśva in the shape of all w apons.
VR 1.20.14 अनुष्टुप्
तेऽपि पुत्राः कृशाश्वस्य प्रजापतिसुतासुताः । नैकरूपा महावीर्या दीप्तिमन्तो जयावहाः ॥
te'pi putrāḥ kṛśāśvasya prajāpatisutāsutāḥ | naikarūpā mahāvīryā dīptimanto jayāvahāḥ ||
English Translation
Those sons of Krśāśva were the offspring of Prajāpati's daughters. And they were endowed with various forms, and were effulgent and dreadful.
VR 1.20.15 अनुष्टुप्
जया च सुप्रभा चैव दक्षकन्ये सुमध्यमे । ते सुवातेऽस्त्रशस्त्राणि शतं परमभास्वरम् ॥
jayā ca suprabhā caiva dakṣakanye sumadhyame | te suvāte'straśastrāṇi śataṃ paramabhāsvaram ||
English Translation
And Dakşa's daughters of elegant waists, Jayā and Suprabhā, brought forth an hundred exceedingly effulgent weapons.
VR 1.20.16 अनुष्टुप्
पञ्चाशतं सुताँल्लेभे जया नाम वरान्पुरा । वधायासुरसैन्यानाममेयान्कामरूपिणः ॥
pañcāśataṃ sutām̐llebhe jayā nāma varānpurā | vadhāyāsurasainyānāmameyānkāmarūpiṇaḥ ||
English Translation
And by virtue of her boon, Jayā obtained fifty sons of immeasurable strength and endued with the power of becoming invisible for the purpose of slaughtering the hosts of the Asuras.
VR 1.20.17 अनुष्टुप्
सुप्रभाजनयच्चापि पुत्रान्पञ्चाशतं पुनः । संहारान्नाम दुर्धर्षान्दुराक्रामान्बलीयसः ॥
suprabhājanayaccāpi putrānpañcāśataṃ punaḥ | saṃhārānnāma durdharṣāndurākrāmānbalīyasaḥ ||
English Translation
Suprabhā also brought forth fifty sons named Sanhäras, incapable of being borne, and infallible and powerful.
VR 1.20.18 अनुष्टुप्
तानि चास्त्राणि वेत्त्येष यथावत्कुशिकात्मजः । अपूर्वाणां च जनने शक्तो भूयश्च धर्मवित् ॥
tāni cāstrāṇi vettyeṣa yathāvatkuśikātmajaḥ | apūrvāṇāṃ ca janane śakto bhūyaśca dharmavit ||
English Translation
Kuśika's son is adequately conversant with all those weapons. And that one knowing duty is also capable of creating wonderful weapons.
VR 1.20.19 अनुष्टुप्
एवं वीर्यो महातेजा विश्वामित्रो महातपाः । न रामगमने राजन्संशयं गन्तुमर्हसि ॥
evaṃ vīryo mahātejā viśvāmitro mahātapāḥ | na rāmagamane rājansaṃśayaṃ gantumarhasi ||
English Translation
Such is the prowess of that highly famous Viśvāmitra possessed of mighty energy. Therefore, O king, it behove you not to hesitate in the matter of Rāma's going.
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