pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: प्रतिज्ञा प्रतिजानीष्व यदि त्वं कर्तुमिच्छसि। अथ ते व्याहरिष्यामि यथाभिप्रार्थितं मया॥
English: If you will execute that do you then promise to that effect. Then only will I express my desire.
Sanskrit: तामुवाच महाराजः कैकेयीमीषदुत्स्मयः। कामी हस्तेन संगृह्य मूर्धजेषु भुवि स्थिताम्॥
English: Thereupon, by his hands placing Kaikeyi's head upon his lap, the mighty monarch, under the influence of passion, smiling fairly, addressed her lying on the ground,
Sanskrit: अवलिप्ते न जानासि त्वत्तः प्रियतरो मम। मनुजो मनुजव्याघ्राद् रामादन्यो न विद्यते॥
English: O you that are swollen with the pride of good fortune, you know that foremost of men, Răma excepted, there live not any that is dearer to me than yourself.
Sanskrit: तेनाजय्येन मुख्येन राघवेण महात्मना। शपे ते जीवनाहेण ब्रूहि यन्मनसेप्सितम्॥
English: I swear by that invincible prime of men even the high-souled Răghava, who is the stay of my existence. Do you tell me your heart's desire.
Sanskrit: यं मुहूर्तमपश्यंस्तु न जीवे तमहं ध्रुवम्। तेन रामेण कैकेयि शपे ते वचनक्रियाम्।७।।
English: By that Rāma, Kaikeyī, whom if I do not see for a moment, I die for certain, do I swear that whatever that will say I will accomplish.
Sanskrit: आत्मना चात्मजैश्चान्यैर्वृणे यं मनुजर्षभम्। तेन रामेण कैकेयि शपे ते वचनक्रियाम्॥
English: By that Rama, O Kaikeyi, foremost of men, whom I hold dearer than my other sons, do I swear that, I will accomplish whatever you will say.
Sanskrit: भद्रे हृदयमप्येतदनुमृश्योद्धरस्व मे। एतत् समीक्ष्य कैकेयि ब्रूहि यत् साधु मन्यसे॥
English: O gentle one, my heart is in what I say. Do you, considering this, deliver me from this distress. Taking all this into consideration, do you, O Kaikeyi, speak out what is in your mind.
Sanskrit: बलमात्मनि पश्यन्ती न विशङ्कितुमर्हसि। करिष्यामि तव प्रीतिं सुकृतेनापि ते शपे॥
English: You see the power you wield in me, therefore it behove you not to fear. I will do your pleasure, by my good deeds do I swear this.
Sanskrit: सा तदर्थमना देवी तमभिप्रायमागतम्। निर्माध्यस्थ्याच्च हर्षाच्च बभाषे दुर्वचं वचः॥
English: Thereat intent upon her own interests, that exalted dame seeing her own wish (almost) attained, assuming an attitude of intercession, being rejoiced, spoke harsh words (to the monarch).
Sanskrit: तेन वाक्येन संहृष्टा तमभिप्रायमात्मनः। व्याजहार महाघोरमभ्यागतमिवान्तकम्॥
English: And delighted at the king's speech, she unfolded that dreadful intention of hers like to the approaching death.
Sanskrit: यथाक्रमेण शपसे वरं मम ददासि च। तच्छृण्वन्तु त्रयस्त्रिंशद् देवाः सेन्द्रपुरोगमाः॥
English: You swear repeatedly, and confer on me a boon. Let the three and thirty deities headed by Indra, hear this.
Sanskrit: चन्द्रादित्यौ नभश्चैव ग्रहा रात्र्यहनी दिशः। जगच्च पृथिवी चेयं सगन्धर्वाः सराक्षसाः॥ निशाचराणि भूतानि गृहेषु गृहदेवता। यानि चान्यानि भूतानि जानीयुर्भाषितं तव॥
English: Let the Sun, and the Moon, and the Sky, and the Planets, and Night, and Day, and the Cardinal Points, and the Universe, and the Earth, with the Gandharvas and Rākşasas, and the Rangers of the night, and all Beings, and the house-hold gods residing in dwellings, together with all other creatures, know your utterances.
Sanskrit: सत्यसंधो महातेजा धर्मज्ञः सत्यवाक्शुचिः। वरं मम ददात्येष सर्वे शृण्वन्तु देवताः॥
English: Let all the deities hear that a highly energetic one speaking the truth, and pure, and cognizant of morality, and abiding by his promise, has conferred on me a boon.
Sanskrit: इति देवी महेष्वासं परिगृह्याभिशस्य च। ततः परमुवाचेदं वरदं काममोहितम्॥
English: Having entreated the monarch thus with a view to prevent him from swerving, and keeping him firm in his promise, she again addressed that mighty bowman, overcome by desire, who was ready to confer on her a boon.
Sanskrit: स्मर राजन् पुरा वृत्तं तस्मिन् देवासुरे रणे। तत्र त्वां च्यावयच्छत्रुस्तव जीवितमन्तरा ॥
English: Remember, o king, the incidents that took place formerly in the war between gods and Asuras. Incapable of taking your life, your enemy had rendered you exceedingly feeble.
Sanskrit: तत्र चापि मया देव यत् त्वं समभिरक्षितः। जाग्रत्या यतमानायास्ततो मे प्रददौ वरौ॥
English: Because, O respected Sir, I tending you sleeplessly, preserved you, you did grant me two boons.
Sanskrit: तौ दत्तौ च वरौ देव निक्षेपौ मृगयाम्यहम्। तवैव पृथिवीपाल सकाशे रघुनन्दन॥ तत् प्रतिश्रुत्य धर्मेण न चेद् दास्यसि मे वरम्। अद्यैव हि प्रहास्यामि जीवितं त्वद्विमानिता॥
English: Entrusting the boons then with you, dc I now, O descendant of the Raghus, ask for them (at your hands), O lord of the earth. If having religiously promised to that effect, you did not confer the boon, this very day, will I, coming by this disgrace from you, renounce my life.
Sanskrit: वाङ्मात्रेण तदा राजा कैकेय्या स्ववशं कृतः। प्रचस्कन्द विनाशाय पाशं मृग इवात्मनः॥
English: When the king was completely brought under the influence of Kaikeyi, he was ensnared by her speech for his destruction, like a deer entering into the noose.
Sanskrit: ततः परमुवाचेदं वरदं काममोहितम्। दरौ देयौ त्वया देव तदा दत्तौ महीपते॥ तौ तावदहमद्यैव वक्ष्यामि शृणु मे वचः। अभिषेकसमारम्भो राघवस्योपकल्पितः॥
English: Thereafter she thus spoke to the king about to confer a boon, who was under the influence of passion, saying, Of the boons that you had then promised me, I shall speak to-day: do you listen to my words. Preparations are being made for installing Rāghava. Do you with the provisions made ready install Bharata in the kingdom.
Sanskrit: अनेनैवाभिषेकेण भरतो मेऽभिषिच्यताम्। यो द्वितीयो वरो देव दत्तः प्रीतेन मे त्वया॥ तदा देवासुरे युद्धे तस्य कालोऽयमागतः।
English: O exalted one, the time has also come for you to confer on me the second boon which you being pleased had promised in the war of the gods and Asuras.
Sanskrit: नव पञ्च च वर्षाणि दण्डकारण्यमाश्रितः॥ चीराजिनधरो धीरो रामो भवतु तापसः। भरतो भजतामद्य यौवराज्यमकण्टकम्॥
English: Let the gentle Rāma, clad in deer-skin, lead the life of a mendicant in the Dandaka forest for the space of nine and five years. And let Bharata gain the heir-apparentship rid of thorns.
Sanskrit: एष कामो दत्तमेव वरं वृणे। अद्य चैव हि पश्येयं प्रयान्तं राघवं वने॥
English: Even this in my prime wish; and I beseech you but to grant the boon you have already promised. Even this very day will I see Rāma despatched to the woods.
Sanskrit: स राजराजो भव सत्यसंगरः कुलं च शीलं च हि जन्म रक्ष च। मे परमः परत्र वासे हि वदन्त्यनुत्तमं तपोधनाः सत्यवचो हितं नृणाम्॥
English: Do you by proving true to your word, become the king of kings; and preserve your race, character, and birth. Truthful speech, say the ascetics, is of supreme welfare to men in the next world.
Sanskrit: ततः श्रुत्वा महाराजः कैकेय्या दारुणं वचः। चिन्तामभिसमापेदे मुहूर्तं प्रतताप च॥
English: Hearing Kaikeyi's fell speech, the monarch bewailed for a time, and then thought.
Sanskrit: किं नु मेऽयं दिवास्वप्नश्चित्तमोहोऽपि वा मम। अनुभूतोपसर्गो वा मनसो वाप्युपद्रवः॥
English: Is this a day-dream to me or has bewilderment befallen my senses? Is this owing to influence of some evil spirit or has my mind been affected?
Sanskrit: इति संचिन्त्य तद् राजा नाध्यगच्छत् तदासुखम्। प्रतिलभ्य ततः संज्ञां कैकेयीवाक्यतापितः॥
English: Thinking thus, the king could not arrive at the origin of (this phenomenon); and then he swooned away. Then regaining his senses, he was filled with grief on recollecting Kaikeyi's words.
Sanskrit: व्यथितो विक्लवश्चैव व्याघ्रीं दृष्ट्वा यथा मृगः। असंवृतायामासीनो जगत्यां दीर्घमुच्छ्वसन्॥ मण्डले पन्नगो रुद्धो मन्त्रैरिव महाविषः। अहो धिगिति सामर्षों वाचमुक्त्वा नराधिपः॥ मोहमापेदिवान् भूयः शोकोपहतचेतनः।
English: And pained and woebegone, like to a deer at the sight of a tigress, he fetched a deep sigh, and sat down on the uncovered ground. Like a venomous snake confined by power of incantation within a circle, the lord of men, in indignation exclaimed. “O fie!" And deprived of his senses by grief, he again swooned away.
Sanskrit: चिरेण तु नृपः संज्ञां प्रतिलभ्य सुदुःखितः॥ कैकेयीमब्रवीत् क्रुद्धो निर्दहनिव तेजसा।
English: After a long while, regaining his senses, he extremely aggrieved, wrathfully, and as if burning in energy, addressed Kaikeyi, saying.
Sanskrit: नृशंसे दुष्टचारित्रे कुलस्यास्य विनाशिनि ॥ किं कृतं तव रामेण पापे पापं मयापि वा।
English: You cruel one! You of vile ways! You destroyer of this race! O wicked woman, what has been done by Räma to you; or what wrong have I done you?
Sanskrit: सदा ते जननीतुल्यां वृत्तिं वहति राघवः॥ तस्यैवं त्वमनर्थाय किंनिमित्तमिहोद्यता।
English: Rāghava ever serve you as a mother. Why you are then bent upon wronging him?
Sanskrit: त्वं मयाऽऽत्मविनाशाय भवनं स्वं निवेशिता।९।। अविज्ञानानृपसुता व्याला तीक्ष्णविषा यथा।
English: It is to bring down destruction upon myself that through ignorance I brought to this house you like to a serpent of virulent poison.
Sanskrit: जीवलोको यदा सर्वो रामस्याह गुणस्तवम्॥ अपराध कमुद्दिश्य त्यक्ष्यामीष्टमहं सुतम्।
English: When all men show their regard for Rāma's virtues, for what transgression shall I forsake my dear son?
Sanskrit: कौसल्यां च सुमित्रां च त्यजेयमपि वा श्रियम्॥ जीवितं चात्मना रामं नत्वेव पितृवत्सलम्।
English: I may renounce Kausalyā or Sumitrā or the kingdom, or life itself; but Rāma, filled with affection for his father, will I not renounce.
Sanskrit: परा भवति मे प्रीतिदृष्ट्वा तनयमग्रजम् ॥ अपश्यतस्तु मे रामं नष्टं भवति चेतनम्।
English: I experience supreme delight on beholding my first-born and when I see him not, I lose my senses.
Sanskrit: तिष्ठेल्लोको विना सूर्यं सस्यं वा सलिलं विना ॥ न तु रामं विना देहे तिष्ठेत्तु मम जीवितम्।
English: The world may exist without the Sun; and corn without water; but this life does not exist in this body without Räma.
Sanskrit: तदलं त्यज्यतामेष निश्चयः पापनिश्चये॥ अपि ते चरणौ मूर्धा स्पृशाम्येष प्रसीद मे। किमर्थं चिन्तितं पापे त्वया परमदारुणम्॥
English: Do you then that entertains unrighteous aims, abandon this intention of yours. I lay my head at your feet. Be propitious to me. Why does you, O sinful one, cherish in your mind such a frightful idea?
Sanskrit: अथ जिज्ञाससे मां त्वं भरतस्य प्रियाप्रिये। आस्तु यत्तत्त्वया पूर्वं व्याहृतं राघवं प्रति॥
English: You (often) asked me whether I love Bharata or not. Be that which you had formerly told me in favour of that descendant of Raghu.
Sanskrit: स मे ज्येष्ठसुतः श्रीमान् धर्मज्येष्ठ इतीव मे। तत् त्वया प्रियवादिन्या सेवार्थं कथितं भवेत्॥
English: That blessed one is my eldest son, and the most righteous of them all even this, with the view of pleasing me, you sweet speeched one had said.
Sanskrit: तच्छुत्वा शोकसंतप्ता संतापयसि मां भृशम्। आविष्टासि गृहे शून्ये सा त्वं परवशं गता॥
English: Now hearing of the installation of Rāma, you yourself filled with grief, are making me exceedingly aggrieved. Or in this empty chamber having been possessed, you have come under influence not your own.
Sanskrit: इक्ष्वाकूणां कुले देवि सम्प्राप्तः सुमहानयम्। अनयो नयसम्पन्ने यत्र ते विकृता मतिः॥
English: And this signal lawlessness, O exalted lady, has befallen the race of the Ikşvākus, the cause of which, O You versed in moral laws, is your mental derangement.
Sanskrit: नहि किंचिदयुक्तं वा विप्रियं वा पुरा मम। अकरोस्त्वं विशालाक्षि तेन न श्रद्दधामि ते॥
English: You did not formerly do to me aught that was improper or disagreeable; therefore, O you of expansive eyes, I cannot rely upon you (as sane).
Sanskrit: ननु ते राघवस्तुल्यो भरतेन महात्मना। बहुशो हि स्म बाले त्वं कथाः कथयसे मम॥
English: You did O girl, many a time tell me that Rāma was equal to you with the high-souled Bharata.
Sanskrit: तस्य धर्मात्मनो देवि वने वासं यशस्विनः। कथं रोचयसे भीरु नव वर्षाणि पञ्च च ॥
English: Wherefore then, O bashful one, do you like that the illustrious and righteous Rāma, O exalted dame, should reside in the forest for five and nine years?
Sanskrit: अत्यन्तसुकुमारस्य तस्य धर्मे कृतात्मनः। कथं रोचयसे वासमरण्येभृशदारुणे॥
English: Why do you like that the exceedingly tender Rāma with his soul established in virtue, should dwell in the woods, undergoing terrible hardship?
Sanskrit: रोचयस्यभिरामस्य रामस्य शुभलोचने। तव शुश्रूषमाणस्य किमर्थं विप्रवासनम्॥
English: Why do you, O you of graceful eyes, wish Rāma, captivating all creatures, and engaged in ministering to you, to be banished?
Sanskrit: रामो हि भरताद् भूयस्तव शुश्रूषते सदा। विशेषं त्वयि तस्मात् तु भरतस्य न लक्षये॥
English: Rāma verily serve you far more than does Bharata; and I do not find that Bharata regard you more than Rāma.
Sanskrit: शुश्रूषां गौरवं चैव प्रमाणं वचनक्रियाम्। कस्तु भूयस्तरं कुर्यादन्यत्र पुरुषर्षभात्॥
English: Who will, save that foremost of men, so devotedly minister to you, regard you, enhance your influence, and do your will.
Sanskrit: बहूनां स्त्रीसहस्राणां बहूनां चोपजीविनाम्। परिवादोऽपवादो वा राघवे नोपपद्यते॥
English: Not one of the many thousands of females and the innumerable retainers (in the palace), has been able to fasten reproach upon Rāma for real or false misconduct.
Sanskrit: सान्त्वयन् सर्वभूतानि रामः शुद्धेन चेतसा। गृह्णाति मनुजव्याघ्रः प्रियैर्विषयवासिनः॥
English: Soothing all creatures with a pure heart, that great soul by means of good offices secure the affections of the inhabitants of the kingdom,
Sanskrit: सत्वेन लोकाञ्जयति द्विजान् दानेन राघवः। गुरुञ्छुश्रूषया वीरो धनुषा युधि शात्रवान्॥
English: He conquers all the twice-born ones by gifts; and that hero conquers his superiors by ministrations; and his enemies by encountering them with the bow.
Sanskrit: सत्यं दानं तपस्त्यागो मित्रता शौचमार्जवम्। विद्या च गुरुशुश्रूषा ध्रुवाण्येतानि राघवे॥
English: For certain, in Rāghava are truth and charity, and asceticism, and self renunciation, and friendship, and purity, and sincerity, and learning, and the disposition to tend his superiors.
Sanskrit: तस्मिन्नार्जवसम्पन्ने देवि देवोपमे कथम्। पापमाशंससे रामे महर्षिसमतेजसि॥
English: How, O respected one, can you ask for this that will bring you sin, touching Rāma endowed with candour, and energetic like to a Maharsi, and resembling a celestial?
Sanskrit: न स्मराम्यप्रियं वाक्यं लोकस्य प्रियवादिनः। स कथं त्वत्कृते राम वक्ष्यामि प्रियमप्रियम्॥
English: I do not recollect to have heard Rāma, who ever speaks sweet words, to have used any unpleasant speech to any one; how can I then foi your sake unfold this disagreeable matter to the beloved Rāma.
Sanskrit: क्षमा यस्मिंस्तपस्त्यागः सत्यं धर्मः कृतज्ञता। अप्यहिंसा च भूतानां तमृते का गतिर्मम ॥
English: And what stay have I save him in whom abide forgiveness, and asceticism and renunciation, and verity, and righteousness, and gratitude, and harmlessness towards all creatures.
Sanskrit: मम वृद्धस्य कैकेयि गतान्तस्य तपस्विनः। दीनं लालप्यमानस्य कारुण्यं कर्तुमर्हसि॥
English: It behove you, O Kaikeyi, to have pity on me, aged and on the verge of death, and afflicted with grief, and distressed, and engaged in lamentations.
Sanskrit: पृथिव्यां सागरान्तायां यत् किंचिदधिगम्यते। तत् सर्वं तव दास्यामि मा च त्वं मृत्युमाविश ॥
English: Whatever can be obtained in this earth bounded by the ocean I will confer on you, do you not bring about my death,
Sanskrit: अञ्जलिं कुर्मि कैकेयि पादौ चापि स्पृशामि ते। शरणं भव रामस्य माधर्मो मामिह स्पृशेत्॥
English: O Kaikeyi, I clasp my palms, I fall at your feet, do you be the protector of Rāma, so that sin may not taint me.
Sanskrit: इति दुःखाभिसंतप्तं विलपन्तमचेतनम्। घूर्णमानं महाराजं शोकेन समभिप्लुतम्॥ पारं शोकार्णवस्याशु प्रलपन्तं पुनः पुनः। प्रत्युवाचाथ कैकेयी रौद्रा रौद्रतरं वचः॥
English: When the terrible Kaikeyī in still more terrible language addressed the mighty king, who was burning in grief, and bewailing, and deprived of his senses, and feeling a sensation of whirling, and overwhelmed with woe, and again and again beseeching for crossing this ocean of sorrow, saying.
Sanskrit: यदि दत्त्वा वरौ राजन् पुनः प्रत्यनुतप्यसे। धार्मिकत्वं कथं वीर पृथिव्यां कथयिष्यसि ॥
English: If, O monarch, having conferred the boon, you repent afterwards, how, O hero, will you speak of your righteousness in the world?
Sanskrit: यदा समेता बहवस्त्वया राजर्षयः सह। कथयिष्यन्ति धर्मज्ञ तत्र किं प्रतिवक्ष्यसि ॥
English: When, O you versed in duty, the Rajarsis assembled around you shall ask you regarding this matter, what will you answer?
Sanskrit: यस्याः प्रसादे जीवामि या च मामभ्यपालयत्। यस्याः कृता मया मिथ्या कैकेय्या इति वक्ष्यसि ।।४१ ।
English: Wilt you say, “by whose favour do I live and who had tended me, to that Kaikeyi have I broken my promise?'
Sanskrit: किल्बिषं त्वं नरेन्द्राणां करिष्यसि नराधिप। यो दत्त्वा वरमद्यैव पुनरन्यानि भाषसे।॥
English: Surely, O lord of men, you will bring disgrace to all the monarchs (of your line), since having conferred the boons this very day, you speak otherwise.
Sanskrit: सागरः समयं कृत्वा न वेलामतिवर्तते। समयं मानृतं कार्षीः पर्ववृत्तमनुस्मरन्।॥
English: And the ocean, having bound himself by promise, never passes beyond his shores. Remembering these old stories render not your promise nugatory.
Sanskrit: स त्वं धर्म परित्यज्य रामं राज्येऽभिषिच्य च। सह कौसल्यया नित्यं रन्तुमिच्छसि दुर्मते॥
English: O you of perverted understanding, renouncing righteousness, and installing Rāma in the kingdom, you wish ever to give yourself up to pleasure with Kausalyă.
Sanskrit: भवत्वधर्मो धर्मो वा सत्यं वा यदि वानृतम्। यत्त्वया संश्रुतं मह्यं तस्य नास्ति व्यतिक्रमः॥
English: Whether what I have proposed be righteous or otherwise, whether you have promised truly or falsely, swerve not from your word.
Sanskrit: अहं हि विषमद्यैव पीत्वा बहु तवाग्रतः। पश्यतस्ते मरिष्यामि रामो यद्यभिषिच्यते॥
English: If you install Rāma, this very day drinking poison, I will surely die before you.
Sanskrit: एकाहमपि पश्येयं यद्यहं राममातरम्। अञ्जलिं प्रतिगृह्णन्ती श्रेयो ननु मृतिर्मम॥
English: If I for a single day behold Rāma's mother receiving homage rendered with clasped hands, I will consider death even as welcome.
Sanskrit: भरतेनात्मना चाहं शपे ते मनुजाधिप। यथा नान्येन तुष्येयमृते रामविवासनात्॥
English: O lord of men, by Bharata's self dear to me as my own life, I swear that save the exile of Rama, nothing shall satisfy me.
Sanskrit: एतावदुक्त्वा वचनं कैकेयी विरराम ह। विलपन्तं च राजानं न प्रतिव्याजहार सा॥
English: Having said this, Kaikeyi paused; and maintained silence disregarding the bewailing monarch.
Sanskrit: श्रुत्वा तु राजा कैकेय्या वाक्यं परमशोभनम्। रामस्य च वने वासमैश्वर्यं भरतस्य च।११।। नाभ्यभाषत कैकयी मुहूर्तं व्याकुलेन्द्रियः। प्रेक्षतानिमिषो देवीं प्रियामप्रियवादिनीम्॥
English: The king with his senses overwhelmed with grief, hearing Kaikeyi's exceedingly bitter words, reflected on Rama's abode in the woods, and the advancement of Bharata, and being bewildered for a while spoke not to Kaikeyi but gazed steadfastly at that exalted dame. a
Sanskrit: तां हि वज्रसमां वाचमाकर्ण्य हृदयाप्रियाम्। दुःखशोकमयीं श्रुत्वा राजा न सुखितोऽभवत्॥
English: His beloved wife, who had uttered disagreeable things. And having heard that speech resembling thunder-bolt, and unpleasant to the heart, and surcharged with grief, the king was extremely pained.
Sanskrit: स देव्या व्यवसायं च घोरं च शपथं कृतम्। ध्यात्वा रामेऽतिनिःश्वस्यच्छिन्नस्तरुरिवापतत्॥
English: Then recollecting that revered lady's resolve, and his own terrible oath, he, sighing forth, “O Rāma," dropped down like a felled tree.
Sanskrit: नष्टचित्तो यथोन्मत्तो विपरीतो यथातुरः। हृततेजा यथा सर्पो बभूव जगतीपतिः॥
English: And then that master of the earth being deprived of his sense, was like a mad man, or a patient with his faculties wildered, or a serpent whose energy has been exhausted.
Sanskrit: दीनयाऽऽतुरया वाचा इति होवाच कैकयीम्। अनर्थमिममर्थाभं केन त्वमुपदेशिता॥
English: In sad and distressful words, he addressed Kaikeyi, saying, Who is it that has convinced you that this exceedingly heinous course is a proper one?
Sanskrit: भूतोपहतचित्तेव ब्रुवन्ती मां न लज्जसे। शीलव्यसनमेतत् ते नाभिजानाम्यहं पुरा।५७।। बालायास्तत् त्विदानी ते लक्षये विपरीतवत्। कुतो वा ते भयं जातं या त्वमेवंविधं वरम्॥ राष्ट्रे भरतमासीनं वृणीषे राघवं वने। विरमैतेन भावेन त्वमेतेनानृतेन च ॥ यदि भर्तुः प्रियं कार्यं लोकस्य भरतस्य च। नृशंसे पापसंकल्पे क्षुद्रे दुष्कृतकारिणि ॥
English: Do you not feel shame to speak thus to me, like one whose faculties have been possessed by an evil spirit? I did not know before, when you was youthful that your nature was so perverted but now I find the very reverse of what I then thought. Whence proceed they fear that you ask for such a boon, the establishment of Bharata in the kingdom, and the banishment of Rāma into the woods? Do you cease to urge such a suit that is fraught with evil to your wifely virtue, and that will render my word untrue, if you wish for the good of your husband, of the people, and Bharata. O cruel woman; O you that intend sinfully, O base wretch 'o doer of impious deeds.
Sanskrit: किं नु दुःखमलीकं वा मयि रामे च पश्यसि। न कथंचिद्यते रामाद् भरतो राज्यमावसेत् ॥ रामादपि हि तं मन्ये धर्मतो बलवत्तरम्। कथं वक्ष्यसि रामस्य वनं गच्छेति भाषिते॥ मुखवणं विवर्णं तु यथैवेन्दुमुपप्लुतम्।
English: How have I and Rāma conspired against your happiness; and what offence do you find in us? Bharata will by no means accept the kingdom, depriving Rāma of it, for I consider Bharata a still more grounded in righteousness than Rāma himself. when I shall say, “Repair to the forest, and Rāma's countenance will fall, like to the moon overwhelmed by Rāhu, how shall I behold it?
Sanskrit: तां तु मे सुकृतां बुद्धिं सुहृद्भिः सह निश्चिताम्॥ कथं द्रक्ष्याम्यपावृत्तां परैरिव हतां चमूम्।
English: How shall I, having in consultation with my friends come to this decision, retract the same, like to an army defeated by the enemy?
Sanskrit: किं मां वक्ष्यन्ति राजानो नानादिग्भ्यः समागताः॥ बालो बतायमैक्ष्वाकश्चिरं राज्यमकारयत्।
English: And what will the monarchs coming from various quarters say concerning me, “Alas! how has this puerile descendant of Ikşvāku reigned so long?"
Sanskrit: यदा हि बहवो वृद्धा गुणवन्तो बहुश्रुता॥ परिप्रक्ष्यन्ति काकुत्स्थं वक्ष्यामीह कथं तदा। कैकेय्या क्लिश्यमानेन पुत्रः प्रव्राजितो मया॥
English: And when many aged folks, endowed with virtues, and accomplished in various lore will ask me concerning Kākutstha, what then shall i say to them, 'Sore pressed by Kaikeyſ, have I banished Rama?
Sanskrit: यदि सत्यं ब्रवीम्येतत् तदसत्यं भविष्यति। किं मां वक्ष्यति कौसल्या राघवे वनमास्थिते॥ किं चैनां प्रतिवक्ष्यामि कृत्वा विप्रियमीदृशम्।
English: Even if I speak this truly, yet none will lend credence to it. And what will Kausalya say to me, when Rāma shall have gone to the forest? Having done her this mighty wrong, what shall I say to her?
Sanskrit: यदा यदा च कौसल्या दासीव च सखीव च॥ भार्यावद् भगिनीवच्च मातृवच्चोपतिष्ठति। सततं प्रियकामा मे प्रियपुत्रा प्रियंवदा॥ न मया सत्कृता देवी सत्कारार्हा कृते तव।
English: Kausalyă serves me at the same time like a slave, and a friend, and wife, and sister, and mother. Ever studious of my welfare, dearly loving her son, and speaking every one fair, that exalted lady, although deserving of homage at my hands, has up to this time not been regarded by me, because of you.
Sanskrit: इदानीं तत्तपति मां यन्मया सुकृतं त्वयि।७०।। अपथ्यव्यञ्जनोपेतं भुक्तमन्नमिवातुरम्।
English: That I have so long sought your welfare, afflict me now, even like rice partaken by a sick person with curries that are unhealthful.
Sanskrit: विप्रकारं च रामस्य सम्प्रयाणं वनस्य च॥ सुमित्रा प्रेक्ष्य वै भीता कथं मे विश्वसिष्यति।
English: Beholding Rāma deprived of his kingdom, and banished to the forest, why will Sumitrā alarmed believe in me.
Sanskrit: कृपणं बत वैदेही श्रोष्यति द्वयमप्रियम् ॥ मां च पञ्चत्वमापन्नं रामं च वनमाश्रितम्।
English: Ah! woe to me! Vaidehi will have to hear of two evil events, my death and Rāma's journey to the woods.
Sanskrit: वैदेही बत मे प्राणाञ्छोचन्ती क्षपयिष्यति।७३ ।। हीना हिमवतः पार्श्वे किंनरेणेव किंनरी।
English: Alas! my Vaidehi, indulging in grief, will renounce her existence, like a Kinnarī on the side of the Himavat, who has been forsaken by her Kinnara.
Sanskrit: नहि राममहं दृष्ट्वा प्रवसन्तं महावने।७४।। चिरं जीवितुमाशंसे रुदन्तीं चापि मैथिलीम्। सा नूनं विधवा राज्यं सपुत्रा कारयिष्यसि॥
English: When I shall witness Rāma repairing to the mighty forest, and Sītā weeping (in grief), I shall not hope for a long life; and you, becoming a widow, will reign along with your son.
Sanskrit: सतीं त्वामहमत्यन्तं व्यवस्याम्यसती सतीम्। रूपिणीं विषसंयुक्ता पीत्वेव मदिरां नरः।७६ ।।
English: Like to a goodly liquor, which people having partaken it, subsequently find to contain poison. I have found you, who had passed for a chaste woman, to be now really unchaste.