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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇam • Kāṇḍa 4 (Kiṣkindhākāṇḍa) • Sarga 41

Kiṣkindhākāṇḍa Sarga 41

किष्किन्धाकाण्डम् • सर्गः 41

Kiṣkindhākāṇḍa Sarga 41 of the classical Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa with 52 verses.

Total: 52 Verses • Citations: VR 4.41.1–52 • 175 Lexicon Terms • Page 1 of 2 (Verses 30 shown)
VR 4.41.1 अनुष्टुप्
ततः प्रस्थाप्य सुग्रीवस्तान्हरीन्दक्षिणां दिशम् । बुद्धिविक्रमसंपन्नान्वायुवेगसमाञ्जवे ॥
tataḥ prasthāpya sugrīvastānharīndakṣiṇāṃ diśam | buddhivikramasaṃpannānvāyuvegasamāñjave ||
English Translation
After sending the monkeys in the southern direction, Sugriva said to the cloudlike troop leader called Sushena.
VR 4.41.2 अनुष्टुप्
अथाहूय महातेजाः सुषेणं नाम यूथपम् । तारायाः पितरं राजा श्वशुरभीमविक्रमम् ॥
athāhūya mahātejāḥ suṣeṇaṃ nāma yūthapam | tārāyāḥ pitaraṃ rājā śvaśurabhīmavikramam ||
VR 4.41.3 अनुष्टुप्
अब्रवीत्प्राञ्जलिर्वाक्यमभिगम्य प्रणम्य च । साहाय्यं कुरु रामस्य कृत्येऽस्मिन्समुपस्थिते ॥
abravītprāñjalirvākyamabhigamya praṇamya ca | sāhāyyaṃ kuru rāmasya kṛtye'sminsamupasthite ||
VR 4.41.4 अनुष्टुप्
वृतः शतसहस्रेण वानराणां तरस्विनाम् । अभिगच्छ दिशं सौम्य पश्चिमां वारुणीं प्रभो ॥
vṛtaḥ śatasahasreṇa vānarāṇāṃ tarasvinām | abhigaccha diśaṃ saumya paścimāṃ vāruṇīṃ prabho ||
VR 4.41.5 अनुष्टुप्
सुराष्ट्रान्सह बाह्लीकाञ्शूराभीरांस्तथैव च । स्फीताञ्जनपदान्रम्यान्विपुलानि पुराणि च ॥
surāṣṭrānsaha bāhlīkāñśūrābhīrāṃstathaiva ca | sphītāñjanapadānramyānvipulāni purāṇi ca ||
English Translation
'O leaders of monkeys search for Sita in the countries of Saurashtra, and also Bahlika, Chandrachitra, in delightful villages and vast towns, also in Kukshi covered haphazardly with punnaga, bakula and uddalaka trees as well as ketaka shrubs.
VR 4.41.6 अनुष्टुप्
पुंनागगहनं कुक्षिं बहुलोद्दालकाकुलम् । तथा केतकषण्डांश्च मार्गध्वं हरियूथपाः ॥
puṃnāgagahanaṃ kukṣiṃ bahuloddālakākulam | tathā ketakaṣaṇḍāṃśca mārgadhvaṃ hariyūthapāḥ ||
English Translation
'O leaders of monkeys search for Sita in the countries of Saurashtra, and also Bahlika, Chandrachitra, in delightful villages and vast towns, also in Kukshi covered haphazardly with punnaga, bakula and uddalaka trees as well as ketaka shrubs.
VR 4.41.7 अनुष्टुप्
प्रत्यक्स्रोतोगमाश्चैव नद्यः शीतजलाः शिवाः । तापसानामरण्यानि कान्तारा गिरयश्च ये ॥
pratyaksrotogamāścaiva nadyaḥ śītajalāḥ śivāḥ | tāpasānāmaraṇyāni kāntārā girayaśca ye ||
VR 4.41.8 उपजातिः
गिरिजालावृतां दुर्गां मार्गित्वा पश्चिमां दिशम् । ततः पश्चिममासाद्य समुद्रं द्रष्टुमर्हथ । तिमि नक्रायुत जलमक्षोभ्यमथ वानरः ॥
girijālāvṛtāṃ durgāṃ mārgitvā paścimāṃ diśam | tataḥ paścimamāsādya samudraṃ draṣṭumarhatha | timi nakrāyuta jalamakṣobhyamatha vānaraḥ ||
English Translation
'O monkeys the auspicious rivers with cool waters flow towards the western region. Search in the groves inhabited by ascetics, other forests, mountains, cliffs, in the desertland. Search in the inaccessible western region surrounded by mountains. Then proceed to the western ocean infested with whales and alligators, which cannot be easily disturbed.
VR 4.41.9 अनुष्टुप्
ततः केतकषण्डेषु तमालगहनेषु च । कपयो विहरिष्यन्ति नारिकेलवनेषु च ॥
tataḥ ketakaṣaṇḍeṣu tamālagahaneṣu ca | kapayo vihariṣyanti nārikelavaneṣu ca ||
English Translation
'There the monkeys may roam about the Ketaka shrubs, tamala thickets and coconut groves.
VR 4.41.10 अनुष्टुप्
तत्र सीतां च मार्गध्वं निलयं रावणस्य च । मरीचिपत्तनं चैव रम्यं चैव जटीपुरम् ॥
tatra sītāṃ ca mārgadhvaṃ nilayaṃ rāvaṇasya ca | marīcipattanaṃ caiva ramyaṃ caiva jaṭīpuram ||
English Translation
'Search for Sita in the abode of Ravana, on mountain peaks and river banks and in forests.
VR 4.41.11 अनुष्टुप्
अवन्तीमङ्गलोपां च तथा चालक्षितं वनम् । राष्ट्राणि च विशालानि पत्तनानि ततस्ततः ॥
avantīmaṅgalopāṃ ca tathā cālakṣitaṃ vanam | rāṣṭrāṇi ca viśālāni pattanāni tatastataḥ ||
English Translation
In hills and woods on the shores of the sea; and (explore) Muracipattana, and the delightful Jațāpura, and Avantī, and Angalepā, as well as in the wood (called) Alaksita, and spacious monarchies, and emporiums.
VR 4.41.12 अनुष्टुप्
सिन्धुसागरयोश्चैव संगमे तत्र पर्वतः । महान्हेमगिरिर्नाम शतशृङ्गो महाद्रुमः ॥
sindhusāgarayoścaiva saṃgame tatra parvataḥ | mahānhemagirirnāma śataśṛṅgo mahādrumaḥ ||
English Translation
'There is a lofty mountain with a hundred peaks and great trees at the confluence of river Sindhu and the sea. It is known as Hemagiri (golden mountain).
VR 4.41.13 अनुष्टुप्
तस्य प्रस्थेषु रम्येषु सिंहाः पक्षगमाः स्थिताः । तिमिमत्स्यगजांश्चैव नीडान्यारोपयन्ति ते ॥
tasya prastheṣu ramyeṣu siṃhāḥ pakṣagamāḥ sthitāḥ | timimatsyagajāṃścaiva nīḍānyāropayanti te ||
English Translation
There is a mighty mountain where the Sindhu falls into the sea, Somagiri by name; having an hundred summits and tall trees. In its plateaus there are certain birds (called) Sinhas. These lift up to their nests whales and elephants.
VR 4.41.14 उपजातिः
तानि नीडानि सिंहानां गिरिशृङ्गगताश्च ये । दृप्तास्तृप्ताश्च मातङ्गास्तोयदस्वननिःस्वनाः । विचरन्ति विशालेऽस्मिंस्तोयपूर्णे समन्ततः ॥
tāni nīḍāni siṃhānāṃ giriśṛṅgagatāśca ye | dṛptāstṛptāśca mātaṅgāstoyadasvananiḥsvanāḥ | vicaranti viśāle'smiṃstoyapūrṇe samantataḥ ||
English Translation
The proud elephants carried to the nests and remaining on the summits of the mountain, possessing the roar of clouds, having been gratified (with food), range around this extensive table-land filled with water.
VR 4.41.15 अनुष्टुप्
तस्य शृङ्गं दिवस्पर्शं काञ्चनं चित्रपादपम् । सर्वमाशु विचेतव्यं कपिभिः कामरूपिभिः ॥
tasya śṛṅgaṃ divasparśaṃ kāñcanaṃ citrapādapam | sarvamāśu vicetavyaṃ kapibhiḥ kāmarūpibhiḥ ||
English Translation
The monkeys, capable of wearing shapes at will, should swiftly search its golden summit towering to the sky and filled with graceful trees.
VR 4.41.16 अनुष्टुप्
कोटिं तत्र समुद्रे तु काञ्चनीं शतयोजनम् । दुर्दर्शां परियात्रस्य गता द्रक्ष्यथ वानराः ॥
koṭiṃ tatra samudre tu kāñcanīṃ śatayojanam | durdarśāṃ pariyātrasya gatā drakṣyatha vānarāḥ ||
English Translation
Proceeding further, the monkeys shall behold the golden summit of Pāriyātra rising from the sea and extending over an hundred Yojanas.
VR 4.41.17 अनुष्टुप्
कोट्यस्तत्र चतुर्विंशद्गन्धर्वाणां तरस्विनाम् । वसन्त्यग्निनिकाशानां घोराणां कामरूपिणाम् ॥
koṭyastatra caturviṃśadgandharvāṇāṃ tarasvinām | vasantyagninikāśānāṃ ghorāṇāṃ kāmarūpiṇām ||
English Translation
There dwell all around in a body four and twenty kotis of ascetic Gandharvas, resembling fire, dreadful, practicising impiety, and like to flames of fire.
VR 4.41.18 अनुष्टुप्
नात्यासादयितव्यास्ते वानरैर्भीमविक्रमैः । नादेयं च फलं तस्माद्देशात्किंचित्प्लवंगमैः ॥
nātyāsādayitavyāste vānarairbhīmavikramaiḥ | nādeyaṃ ca phalaṃ tasmāddeśātkiṃcitplavaṃgamaiḥ ||
English Translation
The monkeys of dreadful prowess should not present themselves before those, nor should they take any fruits from that country.
VR 4.41.19 अनुष्टुप्
दुरासदा हि ते वीराः सत्त्ववन्तो महाबलाः । फलमूलानि ते तत्र रक्षन्ते भीमविक्रमाः ॥
durāsadā hi te vīrāḥ sattvavanto mahābalāḥ | phalamūlāni te tatra rakṣante bhīmavikramāḥ ||
English Translation
Those heroes are hard to approach; and they are truthful and possessed of great might. And there they of dreadful prowess stow away their fruits and roots.
VR 4.41.20 अनुष्टुप्
तत्र यत्नश्च कर्तव्यो मार्गितव्या च जानकी । न हि तेभ्यो भयं किंचित्कपित्वमनुवर्तताम् ॥
tatra yatnaśca kartavyo mārgitavyā ca jānakī | na hi tebhyo bhayaṃ kiṃcitkapitvamanuvartatām ||
English Translation
There you should heedfully search for Jānakī. you have no fear whatever from them; do you only follow your native nature as monkeys.
VR 4.41.21 अनुष्टुप्
चतुर्भागे समुद्रस्य चक्रवान्नाम पर्वतः । तत्र चक्रं सहस्रारं निर्मितं विश्वकर्मणा ॥
caturbhāge samudrasya cakravānnāma parvataḥ | tatra cakraṃ sahasrāraṃ nirmitaṃ viśvakarmaṇā ||
English Translation
On the fourth side of the Ocean is a mountain named Cakravān. There Viśvakarmā forged the discus (called) Sahasrāra.
VR 4.41.22 अनुष्टुप्
तत्र पञ्चजनं हत्वा हयग्रीवं च दानवम् । आजहार ततश्चक्रं शङ्खं च पुरुषोत्तमः ॥
tatra pañcajanaṃ hatvā hayagrīvaṃ ca dānavam | ājahāra tataścakraṃ śaṅkhaṃ ca puruṣottamaḥ ||
English Translation
There, slaying Panchajana and the Dānava, Hayagriva*, the best of male beings obtained the discus as well as the conch. *Lit. horse-necked.
VR 4.41.23 अनुष्टुप्
तस्य सानुषु चित्रेषु विशालासु गुहासु च । रावणः सह वैदेह्या मार्गितव्यस्ततस्ततः ॥
tasya sānuṣu citreṣu viśālāsu guhāsu ca | rāvaṇaḥ saha vaidehyā mārgitavyastatastataḥ ||
English Translation
You should search for Rāvana with Vaidehi all round the top of that mountain as well as in its forests and woods.
VR 4.41.24 अनुष्टुप्
योजनानि चतुःषष्टिर्वराहो नाम पर्वतः । सुवर्णशृङ्गः सुश्रीमानगाधे वरुणालये ॥
yojanāni catuḥṣaṣṭirvarāho nāma parvataḥ | suvarṇaśṛṅgaḥ suśrīmānagādhe varuṇālaye ||
English Translation
Sunk in the depths of the sea, is a very great mountain named Varāha, having golden peaks and measuring four and sixty yojanas.
VR 4.41.25 अनुष्टुप्
तत्र प्राग्ज्योतिषं नाम जातरूपमयं पुरम् । यस्मिन्वस्ति दुष्टात्मा नरको नाम गुहासु च ॥
tatra prāgjyotiṣaṃ nāma jātarūpamayaṃ puram | yasminvasti duṣṭātmā narako nāma guhāsu ca ||
English Translation
In it is a city named Prāgjyotişa, all of gold. There dwells the wicked Dänava named Naraka.* *i.e. in the Varadha hill.
VR 4.41.26 अनुष्टुप्
तस्य सानुषु चित्रेषु विशालासु गुहासु च । रावणः सह वैदेह्या मार्गितव्यस्ततस्ततः ॥
tasya sānuṣu citreṣu viśālāsu guhāsu ca | rāvaṇaḥ saha vaidehyā mārgitavyastatastataḥ ||
English Translation
You should search for Rāvana with Vaidehi all round the top of that mountain as well as in its forests and woods.
VR 4.41.27 अनुष्टुप्
तमतिक्रम्य शैलेन्द्रं काञ्चनान्तरनिर्दरः । पर्वतः सर्वसौवर्णो धारा प्रस्रवणायुतः ॥
tamatikramya śailendraṃ kāñcanāntaranirdaraḥ | parvataḥ sarvasauvarṇo dhārā prasravaṇāyutaḥ ||
English Translation
Passing beyond that foremost of mountains, whose sight betrays the secret of its bowels being freighted with gold, (you shall come upon) the mountain Sarvasauvarna, furnished with fountains and cascades.
VR 4.41.28 अनुष्टुप्
तं गजाश्च वराहाश्च सिंहा व्याघ्राश्च सर्वतः । अभिगर्जन्ति सततं तेन शब्देन दर्पिताः ॥
taṃ gajāśca varāhāśca siṃhā vyāghrāśca sarvataḥ | abhigarjanti satataṃ tena śabdena darpitāḥ ||
English Translation
Coming to it, elephants, and boars, and lions, and tigers, on all sides roar ceaselessly, wrought up by the echoes their own cries have produced.
VR 4.41.29 अनुष्टुप्
तस्मिन्हरिहयः श्रीमान्महेन्द्रः पाकशासनः । अभिषिक्तः सुरै राजा मेघवान्नाम पर्वतः ॥
tasminharihayaḥ śrīmānmahendraḥ pākaśāsanaḥ | abhiṣiktaḥ surai rājā meghavānnāma parvataḥ ||
English Translation
This is the mountain named Megha, where the graceful green-horsed vanquisher of Pāka, Mahendra, was installed king by the gods.
VR 4.41.30 अनुष्टुप्
तमतिक्रम्य शैलेन्द्रं महेन्द्रपरिपालितम् । षष्टिं गिरिसहस्राणि काञ्चनानि गमिष्यथ ॥
tamatikramya śailendraṃ mahendraparipālitam | ṣaṣṭiṃ girisahasrāṇi kāñcanāni gamiṣyatha ||
English Translation
Having passed by that mountain protected by Mahendra, you shall repair to sixty thousand hills of gold; in hue like the infant sun, and blazing on all sides and embellished by blossoming golden trees,
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