pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: देव राजरथं दृष्ट्वा विना राममिहागतम्। दूरादश्रुमुखः सर्वो राजमार्गे गतो जनः॥
English: And, O revered one, seeing the royal car returned hither without Rāma, the people on the highways from grief appear with tearful countenance.
Sanskrit: हम्र्यैर्विमानैः प्रासादैरवेक्ष्य रथमागतम्। हाहाकारकृता नार्यो रामादर्शनकर्शिताः॥
English: And from mansions, cars, and lordly edifices, ladies seeing the car come back, set up a chorus of 'Ah' and 'Alas,' afflicted with the absence of Rama.
Sanskrit: आयतैर्विमलैनॆत्रैरश्रुवेगपरिप्लुतैः। अन्योन्यमभिवीक्षन्तेऽव्यक्तमार्ततराः स्त्रियः॥
English: And becoming more distressed that ever, the fair sex with their expansive and clear eyes filled with tears, began to eye each other indistinctly.
Sanskrit: नामित्राणां न मित्राणामुदासीनजनस्य च। अहमार्ततया कंचिद् विशेषं नोपलक्षये॥
English: And in consequence of the general grief that prevailed, I could not perceive any difference between friends and foes and persons indifferent.
Sanskrit: अप्रहृष्टमनुष्या च दीननागतुरंगमा। आर्तस्वरपरिम्लानविनिःश्वसितनि:स्वना ॥ निरानन्दा महाराज रामप्रव्राजनातुरा। कौसल्या पुत्रहीनेव अयोध्या प्रतिभाति मे॥
English: O mighty monarch, distressed in consequence of the exile of Rāma, men appear sunk in dejection, and elephants and horses are spiritless; and seized with cheerlessness, they utter doleful sounds and heave profound sighs. Ayodhyā appears to me joyless like Kausalyă deprived of her son.
Sanskrit: सूतस्य वचनं श्रुत्वा वाचा परमदीनया। बाष्पोपहतया सूतमिदं वचनमब्रवीत्॥
English: Hearing the words of the charioteer, the king like an exceedingly forlorn, addressed the former in words lost in the vapour of sorrow.
Sanskrit: कैकेय्या विनियुक्तेन पापाभिजनभावया। मया न मन्त्रकुशलैर्वृद्धैः सह समर्थितम्॥
English: Exhorted by Kaikeyi of a sinful country, born in a sinful race and cherishing sinful designs, I did not take counsel with aged people capable of offering advice.
Sanskrit: न सुहृद्भिर्न चामात्यैर्मन्त्रयित्वा सनैगमैः। मयायमर्थः सम्मोहात् स्त्रीहेतोः सहसा कृतः॥
English: Without consulting with friends or courtiers or persons versed in the Vedas, I have in the interest of a woman rashly done this thing through ignorance.
Sanskrit: भवितव्यतया नूनमिदं वा व्यसनं महत्। कुलस्यास्य विनाशाय प्राप्तं सूत यदृच्छया॥
English: Meseems, O charioteer, for the purpose of destroying this line entirely, this mighty disaster has surely befallen us through the influence of Destiny.
Sanskrit: सूत यद्यस्ति ते किंचिन्मयापि सुकृतं कृतम्। त्वं प्रापयाशु मां रामं प्राणाः संत्वरयन्ति माम्॥
English: O charioteer, if I have ever done you any good do you immediately take me to Rāma: my life urges me on (in this direction).
Sanskrit: यद्यद्यापि ममैवाज्ञा निवर्तयतु राघवम्। न शक्ष्यामि विना रामं मुहूर्तमपि जीवितुम्॥
English: Or let my command make Rāghava turn back. I cannot live for a moment without Rāma.
Sanskrit: अथवापि महाबाहुर्गतो दूरं भविष्यति। मामेव रथमारोप्य शीघ्रं रामाय दर्शय॥
English: But if that mighty-armed one has proceeded far, do you placing me on a car speedily show me to Rāma.
Sanskrit: वृत्तदंष्ट्रो महेष्वासः क्वासौ लक्ष्मणपूर्वजः। यदि जीवामि साध्वेनं पश्येयं सीतया सह॥
English: Where is that elder brother of Lakşmaņa of a mighty bow, furnished with teeth resembling Kunda flowers? If I live so long, I will behold him in company with Sītā.
Sanskrit: लोहिताक्षं महाबाहुमामुक्तमणिकुण्डलम्। रामं यदि न पश्येयं गमिष्यामि यमक्षयम्॥ अतो नु किं दुःखतरं योऽहमिक्ष्वाकुनन्दनम्। इमामवस्थामापनो नेह पश्यामि राघवम्॥
English: What can be sadder than this, that reduced to such a pass, I cannot see here that descendant of Ikşvāku, Rāghava?
Sanskrit: हा राम रामानुज हा हा वैदेहि तपस्विनि। न मां जानीत दुःखेन म्रियमाणमनाथवत्॥
English: Ah Rāma! Ah you younger brother of Rāma! Ah you unfortunate Vaidehī! You do not know that I am through grief lamenting like one deserted.
Sanskrit: स तेन राजा दुःखेन भृशमर्पितचेतनः। अवगाढः सुदुष्पारं शोकसागरमब्रवीत्॥
English: Deprived of his consciousness through that sorrow of his, the king said.
Sanskrit: रामशोकमहावेगः सीताविरहपारगः। श्वसितोर्मिमहावर्तो वाष्पवेगजलाविलः॥ बाहुविक्षेपमीनोऽसौ विक्रन्दितमहास्वनः। प्रकीर्णकेशशैवाल: कैकेयीवडवामुखः॥ ममाश्रुवेगप्रभवः कुब्जावाक्यमहाग्रहः। वरवेलो नृशंसाया रामप्रव्राजनायतः॥ यस्मिन् बत निमग्नोऽहं कौसल्ये राघवं विना। दुस्तरो जीवता देवि मयायं शोकसागरः॥ अशोभनं योऽहमिहाद्य राघवं दिदृक्षमाणो न लभे सलक्ष्मणम्। इतीव राजा विलपन् महायशाः पपात तूर्णं शयने स मूर्च्छितः॥
English: I have plunged myself into this ocean of woe hard to cross, with grief for Rāma as its mighty tide; separation from Sītā, its other shore; sighs heaved, its furious billows and whirlpools; tears, rivers that rush into it; tossing of the arms, its fishes; lamentations it roar; my hair flung about, its moss; Kaikeyi, its submarine fire; my fastflowing tears, its current; the words of the humpbacked one, its terrific ravenous animals; the boon, its continents; and the exile of Rama, its expanse. And, O Kausalyā, without Rāghava, I shall sink in this ocean. O exalted dame, living, it is hard for me to cross over this ocean. It is surely owing to my sin that to-day wishing to behold Rāghava and Lakşmaņa, I do not get them (before me). Having thus lamented, the illustrious king all of a sudden dropped to the earth in a swoon.
Sanskrit: इति विलपति पार्थिवे प्रणष्टे करुणतरं द्विगुणं च रामहेतोः। वचनमनुनिशम्य तस्य देवी भयमगमत् पुनरेव राममाता॥
English: On the king swooning away lamenting, that exalted lady, Rāma's mother, hearing his words doubly bitter and more piteous than ever uttered for Rāma, was seized with fresh apprehension.
Sanskrit: ततो भूतोपसृष्टेव वेपमाना पुनः पुनः। धरण्यां गतसत्त्वेव कौसल्या सूतमब्रवीत्॥
English: Then like one possessed by an evil spirit, and trembling again and again, Kausalyä lying down on the ground like one dead, spoke to the charioteer, saying.
Sanskrit: नय मां यत्र काकुत्स्थ: सीता यत्र च लक्ष्मणः। तान् विना क्षणमप्यद्य जीवितुं नोत्सहे ह्यहम्॥
English: Do you take me where Kākutstha is and Sītā and Lakşınaņa: without them, I cannot live for a moment.
Sanskrit: निवर्तय रथं शीघ्रं दण्डकान् नय मामपि। अथ तान् नानुगच्छामि गमिष्यामि यमक्षयम्॥
English: Do you without delay turn the car. Do you take me also to Dandaka. If I do not follow them, I shall repair to the mansion of Yama.
Sanskrit: बाष्पवेगोपहतया स वाचा सज्जमानया। इदमासयन् देवीं सूतः प्राञ्जलिरब्रवीत्॥ त्यज शोकं च मोहं च सम्भ्रंमं दुःखजं तथा। व्यवधूय च संतापं वने वत्स्यति राघवः॥
English: Thereat the cahrioteer with joined hands comforted that exalted lady with ready words faltering and choked with rising vapour, "Do you leave grief and sorrow and the violent emotion. Renouncing grief, Rāghava is living in the woods."
Sanskrit: लक्ष्मणश्चापि रामस्य पादौ परिचरन् वने। आराधयति धर्मज्ञः परलोकं जितेन्द्रियः॥
English: And in the forest, the righteous Laksmara, having his senses under control, is ministering to Răma's feet and is thus adoring the gods for happiness in the next world.
Sanskrit: विजनेऽपि वने सीता वासं प्राप्य गृहेष्विव। विस्रम्भं लभतेऽभीता राम विन्यस्तमानसा॥
English: And even in the lonely woods, Sītā as if remaining at home, having fixed her thoughts on Rāma, is living a life of love.
Sanskrit: नास्या दैन्यं कृतं किंचित् सुसूक्ष्मपि लक्ष्यते। उचितेव प्रवासानां वैदेही प्रतिभाति मे॥
English: And there appears not the least trace of any distress afflicting her; and Vaidehi seems to me as if she were meant (by Nature) for a life away from home.
Sanskrit: नगरोपवनं गत्वा यथा स्म रमते पुरा। तथैव रमते सीता निर्जनेषु वनेष्वपि॥
English: And as forinerly going to urban villas she disported, she disports now even in the lonely forest.
Sanskrit: बालेव रमते सीताबालचन्द्रनिभानना। रामा रामे ह्यदीनात्मा विजनेऽपि वने सती॥
English: And although living in the lone forest, that one of a countenance resembling the infant moon, sports merrily like a girl, in the garden represented by Rāma's self.
Sanskrit: तद्गतं हृदयं यस्यास्तदधीनं च जीवितम्। अयोध्या हि भवेदस्या रामहीना तथा वनम्॥
English: Ayodhyā without Rāma would have seemed a wilderness to her whose heart is fixed on him and whose very life depends upon him.
Sanskrit: परिपृच्छति वैदेही ग्रामांश्च नगराणि च। गतिं दृष्ट्वा नदीनां च पादपान् विविधानपि॥ रामं वा लक्ष्मणं वापि दृष्ट्वा जानाति जानकी। अयोध्या क्रोशमात्रे तु विहारमिव साश्रिता।१३।।
English: Vaidehī is now asking (Rāma) concerning the villages and towns (in their way); and observing various trees and the courses of the rivers, Jānaki, asking Råma Laksmana (for information), is learning all about them. And Sītā sports as she used to do in arbours stationed at the distance of only one krosa from Ayodhyā.
Sanskrit: इदमेव स्मराम्यस्याः सहसैवोपजल्पितम्। कैकेयीसंश्रितं जल्पं नेदानी प्रतिभाति माम्॥
English: This only I remember; but all that she had from sudden impulse communicated to me or concerning Kaikeyſ, does not rise into consciousness.
Sanskrit: ध्वंसयित्वा तु तद् वाक्यं प्रमादात् पर्युपस्थितम्। ह्लादनं वचनं सूतो देव्या मधुरमब्रवीत्॥
English: Suppressing this topic which had come up through heedlessness, the charioteer spoke sweet words cheering up that noble lady.
Sanskrit: अध्वना वातवेगेन सम्भ्रमेणातपेन च। न विगच्छति वैदेह्याश्चन्द्रांशुसदृशी प्रभा॥
English: Neither through the fatigue of travel, nor the influence of the wind, nor excitement, nor the sun, has Vaidehi's lustre resembling the lunar light suffered any diminution.
Sanskrit: सदृशं शतपत्रस्य पूर्णचन्द्रोपमप्रभम्। वदनं तद् वदान्याया. वैदेह्या न विकम्पते ॥
English: The countenance of that fair-speaking one resembling the lotus and comparable to the full moon in splendour, has not waxed pale.
Sanskrit: अलक्तरसरक्ताभावलक्तरसवर्जितौ। अद्यापि चरणौ तस्याः पद्मकोशसमप्रभौ॥
English: Her feet now without your dye of the liquid lac, but naturally furnished with the roseate hue of the same, are gorgeous like lotus buds.
Sanskrit: नूपुरोत्कृष्टलीलेव खेलं गच्छति भामिनी। इदानीमपि वैदेही तद्रागान्यस्तभूषणा ॥
English: Still Vaidehī decked in ornaments from affection for Rāma, goes gracefully rebuking with her bangles the wavy gait (of cranes).
Sanskrit: गजं वा वीक्ष्य सिंह वा व्याघ्र वा वनमाश्रिता। नाहारयति संत्रासं बाहू रामस्य संश्रिता॥
English: Supporting herself on Rāma's arm, Sītă arrived at the forest, is not inspired with fear on beholding either an elephant, or a lion, or a tiger.
Sanskrit: न शोच्यस्ते न चात्मा ते शोच्यो नापि जनाधिपः। इदं हि चरितं लोके प्रतिष्ठास्यति शाश्वतम्॥
English: Therefore they are not to be bewailed, nor your own self, nor the lord of men. This history of Rāma will endure for ever in this world.
Sanskrit: विधूय शोकं परिहृष्टमानसा महर्षियाते पथि सुव्यवस्थिताः। वने रता वन्यफलाशनाः पितुः शुभां प्रतिज्ञा प्रतिपालयन्ति ते॥
English: Renouncing grief and with cheerful hearts, well established in the life led by the Maharşis, they living in the forest on wild fruits as their sustenance, are maintaining the noble promise of their sire.
Sanskrit: तथापि सूतेन सुयुक्तवादिना निवार्यमाणा सुतशोककर्शिता। न चैव देवी विरराम कूजितात् प्रियेति पुत्रेति च राघवेति च ॥
English: Consoled by the truth-telling yet sweetspeeched charioteer, that lady oppressed with grief for her son, ceased not to wail loudly, "My beloved,” “My son," "Rāghava."
Sanskrit: वनं गते धर्मरते रामे रमयतां वरे। कौसल्या रुदती चार्ता भर्तारमिदमब्रवीत्॥
English: On that foremost of those capable of charming people, the righteous Rāma, repairing to the forest, Kausalyā crying in grief said to her husband.
Sanskrit: यद्यपि त्रिषु लोकेषु प्रथितं ते महद् यशः। सानुक्रोशो वदान्यश्च प्रियवादी च राघवः॥
English: Your great fame has spread over the three worlds; and the descendant of Raghu is kind, munificent and fair-speaking.
Sanskrit: कथं नरवर श्रेष्ठ पुत्रौ तौ सह सीतया। दुःखितौ सुखसंवृद्धौ वने दुःखं सहिष्यतः॥
English: Why then have you forsaken those foremost of men along with Sītā? Brought up in happiness, and now brought to misery, how can they bear it?
Sanskrit: सा नूनं तरुणी श्यामा सुकुमारी सुखोचिता। कथमुष्णं च शीतं च मैथिली विसहिष्यते॥
English: How can the youthful daughter of Mithilā of slender make, tender, and deserving of happiness, bear heat and cold?
Sanskrit: भुक्त्वाशनं विशालाक्षी सूपदंशान्वितं शुभम्। वन्यं नैवारमाहारं कथं सीतोपभोक्ष्यते॥
English: Having formerly partaken of (excellent) rice with curries, how will Sita feed on wild rice?
Sanskrit: गीतवादित्रनिर्घोषं श्रुत्वा शुभसमन्विता। कथं क्रव्यादसिंहानां शब्दं श्रोष्यत्यशोभनम्॥
English: Having heard excellent vocal and instrumental music, how will Sītă hear the frightful cries of carnivorous lions?
Sanskrit: महेन्द्रध्वजसंकाशः क्व नु शेते महाभुजः। भुजं परिघसंकाशमुपाधाय महाबलः॥
English: Resembling the gonfalon of the great Indra, where sleeps the mighty-armed and exceedingly powerful Råma, making his arm like to a mace his pillow?
Sanskrit: पद्मवर्णं सुकेशान्तं पद्मनिःश्वासमुत्तमम्। कदा द्रक्ष्यामि रामस्य वदनं पुष्करेक्षणम्॥
English: When shall I behold Rāma's countenance hued like the lotus, with his hair ending beautifully (in curls), and his breath impregnated with the fine perfume of the lotus, and his eyes resembling lotus leaves?
Sanskrit: वज्रसारमयं नूनं हृदयं मे न संशयः। अपश्यन्त्या न तं यद् वै फलतीदं सहस्रधा॥
English: Surely my heart, without doubt, is made of the essence of the thunderbolt, since not beholding him, it is not cracked in a thousand fragments.
Sanskrit: यत् त्वया करुणं कर्म व्यपोह्य मम बान्धवाः। निरस्ताः परिधावन्ति सुखार्हाः कृपणा वने॥
English: It is because of your sad act that mine own, being thwarted, although worthy of happiness, are miserably ranging the wilderness.
Sanskrit: यदि पञ्चदशे वर्षे राघवः पुनरेष्यति। जह्याद् राज्यं च कोशं च भरतो नोपलक्ष्यते॥
English: If after the expiration of the five and ten years, Rāghava does return, it does not appear likely that Bharata will renounce the kingdom and the exchequer.
Sanskrit: भोजयन्ति किल श्राद्धे केचित् स्वानेव बान्धवान्। ततः पश्चात् समीक्षन्ते कृतकार्या द्विजोत्तमान्॥ तत्र ये गुणवन्तश्च विद्वांसश्च द्विजातयः। न पश्चात् तेऽभिमन्यन्ते सुधामपि सुरोपमाः॥
English: Some on the occasions of the Sradha (first) feast their own friends, and having done this, they mind the choice Brāhmaṇas. But those twice-born ones that are meritorious, learned, and like to celestials, do not at the last moment regard even viands resembling ambrosia.
Sanskrit: ब्राह्मणेष्वपि वृत्तेषु भुक्तशेष द्विजोत्तमाः। नाभ्युपेतुमलं प्राज्ञाः शृङ्गच्छेदमिवर्षभाः॥
English: Brāhmaṇas of high respectability endowed with wisdom never bear being entertained after the other twice-born ones have been feasted, even as bulls never quietly bear to have their horns cut off.
Sanskrit: एवं कनीयसा भ्रात्रा भुक्तं राज्यं विशाम्पते। भ्राता ज्येष्ठो वरिष्ठश्च किमर्थं नावमन्यते॥
English: Why will not an elder brother and one who has sterling merits, O monarch, disregard a kingdom which has been thus enjoyed by his younger brother?
Sanskrit: न परेणाहृतं भक्ष्यं व्याघ्रः खादितुमिच्छति। एवमेव नरव्याघ्रः परलीढं न मंस्यते॥
English: A tiger does not like to feed on food procured by others. Even so that tiger-like personage does not regard anything that has come to be tasted by another.
Sanskrit: हविराज्यं पुरोडाशः कुशा यूपाश्च खादिराः। नैतानि यातयामानि कुर्वन्ति पुनरध्वरे ॥
English: Clarified butter, sacrificial cakes, Kusa, stakes of catechu having been used in one sacrifice cannot be used in another.
Sanskrit: तथा ह्यात्तमिदं राज्यं हृतसारां सुरामिव। नाभिमन्तुमलं रामो नष्टसोममिवाध्वरम्॥
English: Even so this kingdom which has been already enjoyed, like to liquor deprived of its essence or a sacrifice whose soma has been eaten, cannot be accepted by Rāma.
Sanskrit: नैवंविधमसत्कारं राघवो मर्षयिष्यति। बलवानिव शार्दूलो वालधेरभिमर्शनम्॥
English: Such an ill treatment Rāghava will not put up with, even as a powerful tiger cannot bear the rubbing of its tail (by another).
Sanskrit: नैतस्य सहिता लोका भयं कुर्युर्महामृधे। अधर्मं त्विह धर्मात्मा लोकं धर्मेण योजयेत्॥
English: This world aided by the gods fear to encounter him in high conflict; but he restrains himself, thinking any such action on his part as unrighteous. Indeed, that righteous one brings back people to morality.
Sanskrit: नन्वसौ काञ्चनैर्बाणैर्महावीर्यो महाभुजः। युगान्त इव भूतानि सागरानपि निर्दहेत्॥
English: Surely, that mighty-armed one endowed with exceeding prowess, can with his golden shafts burn all creatures and the oceans, like the Day at the dissolution of all.
Sanskrit: स तादृशः सिंहबलो वृषभाक्षो नरर्षभः। स्वयमेव हतः पित्रा जलजेनात्मजो यथा॥
English: But such a man of men, possessed of leonine strength, and graced with the eyes of a bull, has been destroyed by his father, like a fish destroying his offspring.
Sanskrit: द्विजातिचरितो धर्मः शास्त्रे दृष्टः सनातनैः। यदि ते धर्मनिरते त्वया पुत्रे विवासिते॥
English: If you had believed in the morality prescribed in the scriptures, and which is followed by the twice-born ones, you would not have banished your son. But disregarding such morality, you have banished your virtuous son.
Sanskrit: गतिरेका पतिर्नार्या द्वितीया गतिरात्मजः। तृतीया ज्ञातयो राजश्चतुर्थी नैव विद्यते॥
English: One of the refuges of a woman is her husband, a second is her son, and a third is her relatives; and a fourth she has none.
Sanskrit: तत्र त्वं मम नैवासि रामश्च वनमाहितः। न वनं गन्तुमिच्छामि सर्वथा हा हता त्वया॥
English: But you cease to be mine; and Rāma has been sent to the woods. I do not like to go into the forest; so I am entirely undone by you.
Sanskrit: हतं त्वया राष्ट्रमिदं सराज्यं हताः स्म सर्वाः सह मन्त्रिभिश्च। हता सपुत्रास्मि हताश्चं पौराः सुतश्च भार्या च तव प्रहृष्टौ ॥
English: This kingdom, your own kingdom, has been destroyed by you; destroyed are all along with the counsellors; destroyed am I with my son; and destroyed are the citizens: your son and your wife are alone delighted.
Sanskrit: इमां गिरं दारुणशब्दसंहितां निशम्य रामेति मुमोह दुःखितः। ततः स शोकं प्रविवेश पार्थिवः स्वदुष्कृतं चापि पुनस्तथास्मरत्॥
English: Hearing these words uttered in heart-rending accents, Dasaratha exceedingly distressed, became senseless. And being afflicted with grief, he again remembered his evil act.
Sanskrit: एवं तु क्रुद्धया राजा राममात्रा सशोकया। श्रावितः परुषं वाक्यं चिन्तयामास दुःखितः॥ चिन्तयित्वा स च नृपो मोहव्याकुलितेन्द्रियः। अथ दीर्पण कालेन संज्ञामाप परंतपः॥
English: Thus harshly addressed by the indignant mother of Rāma, the king aggrieved was plunged in thought. Having thought for a long while, that repressor of foes, the king, who had lost his senses through grief, regained consciousness.
Sanskrit: स संज्ञामुपलभ्यैव दीर्घमुष्णं च निःश्वसन्। कौसल्या पार्श्वतो दृष्ट्वा ततश्चिन्तामुपागमत्॥
English: Having regained his senses, he sighing hot and hard, seeing Kausalyā beside him, was again lost in thought.
Sanskrit: तस्य चिन्तयमानस्य प्रत्यभात् कर्म दुष्कृतम्। यदनेन कृतं पूर्वमज्ञानाच्छब्दवेधिना॥
English: As he was thinking, the sinful act which he had through ignorance formerly committed by means of the shaft which hits by sounds, rose up in his recollection,
Sanskrit: अमानास्तेन शोकेन रामशोकेन च प्रभुः। द्वाभ्यामपि महाराजः शोकाभ्यामभितप्यते॥
English: Afflicted with this grief as well as that on account of Rāma, that lord, the king, burned in these two several griefs.
Sanskrit: दह्यमानस्तु शोकाभ्यां कौसल्यामाह दुःखितः। वेपमानोऽञ्जलिं कृत्वा प्रसादार्थमवाङ्मुखः। ॥
English: Burning in grief and distressed, he trembling and with joined hands, with his head hanging down, addressed Kausalyā, with the view of pacifying her.
Sanskrit: प्रसादये त्वां कौसल्ये रचितोऽयं मयाञ्जलिः। वत्सला चानृशंसा च त्वं हि नित्यं परेष्वपि॥
English: I deprecate your displeasure. O Kausalyä with joined hands. You are ever affectionate and did not treat harshly even enemies.
Sanskrit: कौसल्या व्यसृजद् भर्ता तु खलु नारीणां गुणवान् निर्गुणोऽपि वा। धर्मं विमृशमानानां प्रत्यक्षं देवि दैवतम्॥
English: Verily to women cognizant of virtue, a husband, whether he has any merits or not, is a very deity.
Sanskrit: सा त्वं धर्मपरा नित्यं दृष्टलोकपरावरा। नार्हसे विप्रियं वक्तुं दुःखितापि सुदुःखितम्॥
English: Ever virtuous, you, that have seen both the virtuous and the vicious, although aggrieved, ought not to say anything unpleasant to me who am weighed down with woe.
Sanskrit: तद् वाक्यं करुणं राज्ञः श्रुत्वा दीनस्य भाषितम्। बाष्पं प्रणालीव नवोदकम्॥
English: Having heard these piteous words of the distressed king, Kausalyā uttered words even as a water-way lets out fresh accession of rain.
Sanskrit: सा मूर्ध्नि बद्ध्वा रुदती राज्ञः पद्ममिवाञ्जलिम्। सम्भ्रमादब्रवीत् त्रस्ता त्वरमाणाक्षरं वचः॥
English: And weeping, she drew on her head the joined hands of the king resembling lotuses; and then flurried spoke these words hurriedly informed with extreme affection.
Sanskrit: प्रसीद शिरसा याचे भूमौ निपतितास्मि ते। याचितास्मि हता देव क्षन्तव्याहं नहि त्वया॥
English: Be you propitious; I beseech with (bended) head. I bow to you, falling on the ground. O reverend one, besought by you, I shall be undone. I do not deserve to be forgiven by you.
Sanskrit: नैषा हि सा स्त्री भवति श्लाघनीयेन धीमता। उभयोर्लोकयोर्लोके पत्या या सम्प्रसाद्यते॥
English: She cannot be reckoned a gentlewoman, who is propitiated by her intelligent husband, worthy of being extolled in both worlds.
Sanskrit: जानामि धर्मे धर्मज्ञ त्वां जाने सत्यवादिनम्। पुत्रशोकार्तया तत्तु मया किमपि भाषितम्॥
English: I know duty, O righteous one; I know that you are truth-telling. And it is because I was exceedingly distressed on account of my son that I spoke harshly to you.
Sanskrit: शोको नाशयते धैर्यं शोको नाशयते श्रुतम्। शोको नाशयते सर्वं नास्ति शोकसमो रिपुः॥
English: Sorrow destroys patience, sorrow destroys knowledge of the scriptures, sorrow destroys every things; there is no enemy like to sorrow.
Sanskrit: शक्यमापतितः सोढुं प्रहारो रिपुहस्ततः। शोढुमापतितः शोकः सुसूक्ष्मोऽपि न शक्यते॥
English: One can falling down bear ever beating from an enemy; but one cannot falling down bear ever so little sorrow.
Sanskrit: वनवासाय रामस्य पञ्चरात्रोऽत्र गण्यते। यः शोकहतहर्षायाः पञ्चवर्षोपमो मम॥
English: This is the fifth night of the banishment of Rāma, as calculated by me; and to me rendered cheerless by sorrow, this interval has assumed the proportions of five years.
Sanskrit: तं हि चिन्तयमानायाः शोकोऽयं हृदि वर्धते। नदीनामिव वेगेन समुद्रसलिलं महत्॥
English: And fostered by thought on my part, this grief increases in my bosom, like the mighty waters of the ocean increased by the vehement discharge of rivers.
Sanskrit: एवं हि कथयन्त्यास्तु कौसल्यायाः शुभं वचः। मन्दरश्मिरभूत् सूर्यो रजनी चाभ्यवर्तत॥ अथ प्रह्लादितो वाक्यैर्देव्या कौसल्यया नृपः। शोकेन चसमाक्रान्तो निद्राया वशमेयिवान्॥
English: As Kausalyā was thus speaking auspiciously, the rays of the sun grew milder, and the night arrived. Cheered up by the words of Kausalya, the king overcome by grief, felt the influence of sleep.
Sanskrit: प्रतिबुद्धो मुहूर्तेन शोकोपहतचेतनः। अथ राजा दशरथः स चिन्तामभ्यपद्यत ॥
English: Starting in a moment from sleep, king Dasaratha deprived (almost) of his consciousness by grief, (again) became a prey to thought.
Sanskrit: रामलक्ष्मणयोश्चैव विवासाद् वासवोपमम्। आपेदे उपसर्गस्तं तमः सूर्यमिवासुरम्॥
English: 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
Sanskrit: सभार्ये हि गते रामे कौसल्यां कोसलेश्वरः। विवक्षुरसितापाङ्गी स्मृत्वा दुष्कृतमात्मनः॥
English: Then on Răma's having gone along with his wife, the lord of the Kosalas, remembering his own misdeed, felt anxious to communicate himself to that lady having her eyes furnished with dark outer corners.
Sanskrit: स राजा रजनी षष्ठी रामे प्रवाजिते वनम्। अर्धरात्रे दशरथः सोऽस्मरद् दुष्कृतं कृतम्॥
English: And on the sixth night after Rāma had repaired to the forest, the king Dasaratha, when it midnight, remembered his unrighteous act.
Sanskrit: स राजा पुत्रशोकार्तः स्मृत्वा दुष्कृतमात्मनः। कौसल्यां पुत्रशोकार्तामिदं वचनमब्रवीत्॥
English: And then to Kausalyā aggrieved on account of her son, her spoke these words.
Sanskrit: यदाचरति कल्याणि शुभं वा यदि वाऽशुभम्। तदेव लभते भद्रे कर्ता कर्मजमात्मनः॥
English: As are the actions of one, O auspicious one, whether good otherwise, the consequences, O gentle lady, reaped by the doer of them.
Sanskrit: गुरुलाघवमर्थानामारम्भे कर्मणां फलम्। दोषं वा यो न जानाति स बाल इति होच्यते।७।।
English: 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.