pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: ततस्तं पुरुषव्याघ्रं यशस्विनमकल्मषम्। आसीनं स्थण्डिले रामं ददर्श सहसा जनः॥ विगर्हमाणः कैकेयीं मन्थरा सहितामपि। अभिगम्य जनो रामं बाष्पपूर्णमुखोऽभवत्॥
English: As the people suddenly saw that foremost of men, the sinless and illustrious Rāma seated on the ground, accusing Kaikeyi as well as the vile Mantharā, the people apprached Rāma, with their countenances discovering tears.
Sanskrit: तान् नरान् बाष्पपूर्णाक्षान् समीक्ष्याथ सुदुःखितान्। पर्यष्वजत धर्मज्ञः पितृवन्मातृवच्च सः॥
English: Seeing those men oppressed with grief with their eyes filled with tears, that one cognizant of virtue like fathers and mothers, embraced those that deserved it.
Sanskrit: स तत्र कांश्चित् परिषस्वजे नरान् नराश्च केचित्तु तमभ्यवादयन्। चकार सर्वान् सवयस्यबान्धवान् यथार्हमासाद्य तदा नृपात्मजः॥
English: And he embraced some persons; and some offered him salutations. And the king's son, as each deserved, properly received them along with their friends and equals in age.
Sanskrit: ततः स तेषां रुदतां महात्मनां भुवं च खं चानुविनादयन् स्वनः। गुहा गिरीणां च दिशश्च संततं मृदङ्गघोषप्रतिमो विशुश्रुवे॥
English: And the sounds, produced by those high souled persons lamenting, resounding the earth and the sky, and the mountain-caverns, and all the cardinal points, were heard like peals of Mrdangas. And the sounds, produced by those high souled persons lamenting, resounding the earth and the sky, and the mountain-caverns, and all the cardinal points, were heard like peals of Mrdangas.
Sanskrit: वसिष्ठः पुरतः कृत्वा दारान् दशरथस्य च। अभिचक्राम तं देशं रामदर्शनतर्षितः॥
English: Desirous of seeing Rama, Vasistha, taking before him the wives of Dasaratha, proceeded towards the hermitage.
Sanskrit: राजपत्ल्यश्च गच्छन्त्यो मन्दं मन्दाकिनी प्रति। ददृशुस्तत्र तत् तीर्थं रामलक्ष्मणसेवितम्॥
English: And as the wives of the king were going slowly by the Mandākinī, they discovered the landing-place which was used by Rāma and Laksmana.
Sanskrit: कौसल्या बाष्पपूर्णेन मुखेन परिशुष्यता। सुमित्रामब्रवीद् दीनां याश्चान्या राजयोषितः॥ इदं तेषामनाथानां क्लिष्टमक्लिष्टकर्मणाम्। वने प्राक्कलनं तीर्थं ये ते निर्विषयीकृताः॥
English: Thereupon Kausalyä, with her eyes filled with tears and her countenance rendered pale, observed to the forlorn Sumitra as well as the other wives of the king, sacred like to a first wife, in this forest this is the landing-place of those unfortunate ones of untiring energy, who had been deprived of the kingdom.
Sanskrit: इतः सुमित्रे पुत्रस्ते सदा जलमतन्द्रितः। स्वयं हरति सौमित्रिर्मम पुत्रस्य कारणात्॥
English: From here, O Sumitrā, does your son, Saumitri, ever vigilant, personally procure water for my son.
Sanskrit: जघन्यमपि ते पुत्रः कृतवान् न तु गर्हितः। भ्रातुर्यदर्थरहितं सर्वं तद् गर्हितं गुणैः॥
English: Although your son performs a servile office, yet he is not to blame: (the performance of) that alone which serves no purpose of his brother possessed of many perfections, could bring blame upon him.
Sanskrit: अद्यायमपि ते पुत्रः क्लेशानामतथोचितः। नीचानर्थसमाचारं सज्जं कर्म प्रमुञ्चतु॥
English: To day let your son, who does not deserve such toilsome work, cease to perform that office which is fraught with hardship fit only for the base.
Sanskrit: दक्षिणाग्रेषु दर्भेषु सा ददर्श महीतले। पितुरिङ्गुदिपिण्याकं न्यस्तमायतलोचना ॥
English: That lady of expansive eyes happened to see on the earth the Ingudī piņņa, which had been placed by Rāma for his sire on the darbha with their tops pointing south-wards.
Sanskrit: तं भूमौ पितुरातेन न्यस्तं रामेण वीक्ष्य सा। उवाच देवी कौसल्या सर्वा दशरथस्त्रियः॥
English: Seeing this, which had been placed on the ground by Rāma disconsolate for his sire, the noble Kausaly, addressed all the wives of Dasaratha.
Sanskrit: इदमिक्ष्वाकुनाथस्य राघवस्य महात्मनः। राघवेण पितुर्दत्तं पश्यतैतद् यथाविधि॥
English: Do you behold this that has been duly offered to the high-souled descendant of Raghu, lord of the Ikşvāku race, by Rāghava.
Sanskrit: तस्य देवसमानस्य पार्थिवस्य महात्मनः। नैतदौपयिकं मन्ये भुक्तभोगस्य भोजनम्॥
English: Do not deem this as fit fare for that magnanimous monarch resembling a celestial, who had enjoyed every luxury (in life).
Sanskrit: चतुरन्तां महीं भुक्त्वा महेन्द्रसदृशो भुवि। कथमिङ्गुदिपिण्याकं स भुङ्क्ते वसुधाधिपः॥
English: Having enjoyed this earth bounded by the four seas, how can that. lord of the world, resembling on earth the mighty Indra, feed on this Ingudī pinda?
Sanskrit: अतो दु:खतरं लोके न किञ्चित् प्रतिभाति मे। यत्र रामः पितुर्दद्यादिगुदीक्षोदमृद्धिमान्॥
English: Nothing appears to me more deplorable in this world than this that the auspicious Rāma has offered an Ingudi cake to his father.
Sanskrit: रामेणेङ्गुदिपिण्याकं पितुर्दत्तं समीक्ष्य मे। कथं दुःखेन हृदयं न स्फोटति सहस्रधा॥
English: Seeing the Ingudi pinda offered by Rāma to his father, why does not my heart break into a thousand shivers?
Sanskrit: श्रुतिस्तु खल्वियं सत्या लौकिकी प्रतिभाति मे। यदन्नः पुरुषो भवति तदन्नास्तस्य देवता॥
English: Now the tradition in vogue among men, appearth to be true, viz., that “the fare that is pareaken by a person, is also partaken by his deity."
Sanskrit: एवमाः सपत्न्यस्ता जग्मुराश्वास्य तां तदा। ददृशुश्चाश्रमे रामं स्वर्गच्युतमिवामरम्॥
English: Then those that were co-wives with her, consoled the distressed Kausalyā; and, (entering the asylum), beheld Rāma like an immortal dropped from the celestial regions.
Sanskrit: तं भोगैः सम्परित्यक्तं रामं सम्प्रेक्ष्य मातरः। आर्ता मुमुचुरश्रूणि सस्वरं शोककर्शिताः॥
English: Seeing Rāma, who had been deprived of every comfort, his mothers, overwhelmed with grief and distress, began to shed tears, lamenting.
Sanskrit: तासां रामः समुत्थाय जग्राह चरणाम्बुजान्। मातृणां मनुजव्याघ्रः सर्वासां सत्यसंगरः॥
English: Raising his mothers, that foremost of men, Rāma, true to his promise, took hold of those lotus feet of theirs.
Sanskrit: ताः पाणिभिः सुखस्पर्श द्वङ्गुलितलैः शुभैः। प्रममा रजः पृष्ठाद् रामस्यायतलोचनाः॥
English: And those ones furnished with expansive eyes, (on their turn) by means of their fair hands of delicious feed furnished with soft fingers and palms, fell to rubbing the dust off Rāma's back.
Sanskrit: सौमित्रिरपि ताः सर्वा मातृः सम्प्रेक्ष्य दुःखितः। अभ्यवादयदासक्तं शनै रामादनन्तरम्॥
English: After Rāma had done, Sumitrā's son also, seeing all his mothers, with sorrow gently paid his reverence to them with affection.
Sanskrit: यथा रामे तथा तस्मिन् सर्वा ववृतिरे स्त्रियः। वृत्तिं दशरथाज्जाते लक्ष्मणे शुभलक्षणे॥
English: Thereat, as they had treated Rāma, all the ladies treated that one sprung from Daśaratha, Laksmana, graced with auspicious marks.
Sanskrit: सीतापि चरणांस्तासामुपसंगृह्य दुःखिता। श्वश्रूणामश्रुपूर्णाक्षी सम्बभूवाग्रतः स्थिता॥
English: Sītă also with her eyes filled with tears, law, stood before them in distressful guise.
Sanskrit: तां परिष्वज्य दुःखार्ता माता दुहितरं यथा। वनवासकृतां दीनां कौसल्या वाक्यमब्रवीत्॥
English: Embracing that woeful one in banishment, even as a mother does her daughter, Kausalya, smitten with grief, said.
Sanskrit: वैदेहराजन्यसुता स्नुषा दशरथस्य च। रामपत्नी कथं दुःखं सम्प्राप्ता विजने वने॥
English: The daughter of Videha's King, and the daughter-in-law of Dasaratha, and the wife of Rāma himself, why does such a lady undergo misery in the lone forest?
Sanskrit: पद्ममातपसंतप्तं परिक्लिष्टमिवोत्पलम्। काञ्चनं रजसा ध्वस्तं क्लिष्टं चन्द्रमिवाम्बुदैः॥ मुखं ते प्रेक्ष्य मां शोको दहत्यग्निरिवाश्रयम्। भृशं मनसि वैदेहि व्यसनारणिसम्भवः॥
English: O Vaidehi, beholding your face like to a lotus heated under the sun, or a lily that has been crushed, or like to gold covered with dust, or the moon enveloped by clouds, grief begot of this vortex of disaster that is in my mind, fiercely burns me, as fire consume a structure.
Sanskrit: ब्रुवन्त्यामेवमार्तायां जनन्यां भरताग्रजः। पादावासाद्य जग्राह वसिष्ठस्य च राघवः॥
English: As his wretched mother was thus speaking, Bharata's elder brother, Räghava, approaching, took the feet of Vasiştha.
Sanskrit: पुरोहतस्याग्निसमस्य तस्य वै बृहस्पतेरिन्द्र इवामराधिपः। प्रगृह्य पादौ सुसमृद्धतेजसः सहैव तेनोपविवेश राघवः॥
English: Having taken hold of the feet of the priest resembling a flame, and of accumulated energy, like to that lord of the immortals, Indra, taking the feet of Bșhaspati, Rāghava sat down with him.
Sanskrit: ततो जघन्यं सहितैः स्वमन्त्रिभिः पुरप्रधानैश्च तथैव सैनिकैः। नुपोपविष्टो भरतस्तदाग्रजम्॥
English: Then behind them (Rāma and Vasistha), along with his own counsellors, and principal citizens, and generals, and persons of eminent piety, sat the virtuous Bharata in the presence of his elder brother.
Sanskrit: स्तपस्विवेषेण समीक्ष्य राघवम्। र्यथा महेन्द्रः प्रयतः प्रजापतिम्॥
English: Seeing Raghava in the guise of an ascetic, flaming in grace, the exceedingly powerful Bharata with joined palms sat down in company with his brother, like the great Indra of controlled faculties in presence of Prajāpati.
Sanskrit: किमेष वाक्यं भरतोऽद्य राघवं प्रणम्य सत्कृत्य च साधु वक्ष्यति। इतीव तस्यार्यजनस्य तत्त्वतो बभूव कौतूहलमुत्तमं तदा॥
English: "What will Bharata, having bowed to Rāghava and paid him homage, will say to him?", this intense curiosity arose in (the mind of) all the noble persons present there.
Sanskrit: स राघवः सत्यधृतिश्च लक्ष्मणो महानुभावो भरतश्च धार्मिकः। वृताः सुहृद्भिश्च विरेचिरेऽध्वरे यथा सदस्यैः सहितात्रयोऽग्नयः॥
English: And Rāghava having truth and forbearance, and Lakşmaņa endowed with magnanimity, and Bharata possessed of righteousness, surrounded by their friends, appeared (there) like to the three fires surrounded by Sadasyas.
Sanskrit: ततः पुरुषसिंहानां वृतानां तैः सुद्गणैः। शोचतामेव रजनी दुःखेन व्यत्यवर्तत॥ रजन्यां सुप्रभातायां भ्रातरस्ते सुहृद्वताः। मन्दाकिन्यां हुतं जप्यं कृत्वा राममुपागमन्॥
English: As those foremost of persons surrounded by their friends indulged in lamentations, the night passed away in grief. On the night being succeeded by an auspicious morning, those brothers surrounded by their friends, having performed Homa and Japa on the Mandākinī, returned to Rāma.
Sanskrit: तूष्णीं ते समुपासीना न कश्चित् किंचिदब्रवीत्। भरतस्तु सुहृन्मध्ये रामं वचनमब्रवीत्॥
English: And sitting silent, no one said anything. Then Bharata addressed Rāma in the midst of those friends, saying.
Sanskrit: सान्त्विता मामिका माता दत्तं राज्यमिदं मम। तद् ददामि तवैवाहं भुक्ष्व राज्यमकण्टकम्॥
English: My mother was (first) pacified (by grant to the kingdom.) The kingdom is (now) mine. I grant the same to you. Do you enjoy the kingdom rid of its thorns.
Sanskrit: महतेवाम्बुवेगेन भिन्नः सेतुर्जलागमे। दुरावरं त्वदन्येन राज्यखण्डमिदं महत्॥
English: Like to a dyke forced by a torrent during the rains, this mighty monarchy is difficult of being protected save by you.
Sanskrit: गतिं खर इवाश्वस्य तार्थ्यस्येव पतत्त्रिणः। अनुगन्तुं न शक्तिर्मे गतिं तव महीपते॥
English: As a mule is incapable of imitating the course of a horse, or as birds, that of Tarksya, I, O Lord of earth, lack the strength to imitate you.
Sanskrit: सुजीवं नित्यशस्तस्य यः परैरुपजीव्यते। राम तेन तु दुर्जीवं यः परानुपजीवति॥
English: O Rāma, ever happy is the life of him that others depend upon for subsistence: unhappy is the life of the person that depends upon others for support.
Sanskrit: यथा तु रोपितो वृक्षः पुरुषेण विवर्धितः। ह्रस्वकेन दुरारोहो रूढस्कन्धो महादुमः॥ स यदा पुष्पितो भूत्वा फलानि न विदर्शयेत्। स तां नानुभवेत् प्रीतिं यस्य हेतोः प्ररोपितः॥ एषोपमा महाबाहो तदर्थ वेत्तुमर्हसि। यत्र त्वमस्मान् वृषभो भर्ता भृत्यान् न शाधि हि॥
English: As a tree planted by a person, and by him made to increase, (until at last), sending out branches, a mighty tree, it is incapable of being got up by a dwarf; and then if, flowering, it show no fruits, it cannot contribute to the satisfaction of him for whom it has been planted. O mightyarmed one, this comparison is meant for you. This* it behoves you to apprehend, inasmuch as you are our excellent lord, and you do not teach us who depend upon you for support. *The import of the image.
Sanskrit: श्रेणयस्त्वां महाराज पश्यन्त्वग्र्याश्च सर्वशः। प्रतपन्तमिवादित्यं राज्यस्थितमरिंदमम्॥
English: Let the principal orders, O monarch, behold you, represser of foes, established in the kingdom, like the powerful sun himself.
Sanskrit: तथानुयाने काकुत्स्थ मत्ता नर्दन्तु कुञ्जराः। अन्तःपुरगता नार्यो नन्दन्तु सुसमाहिताः॥
English: O Kākutstha, let mad elephants roar, with the view of following you; and let the women of the inner apartments with concentrated rainds utter jubilation.
Sanskrit: तस्य साध्वनुमन्यन्त नागरा विविधा जनाः। भरतस्य वचः श्रुत्वा रामं प्रत्यनुयाचतः॥
English: On hearing the words of Bharata, who was beseeching Rāma, many of the citizens expressed their approbation by exclaiming, “Excellent well!"
Sanskrit: तमेवं दुःखितं प्रेक्ष्य विलपन्तं यशस्विनम्। रामः कृतात्मा भरतं समाश्वासयदात्मवान्॥
English: Seeing the illustrious Bharata aggrieved and engaged in lamentation, the calm and considerate Rāma consoled him, saying.
Sanskrit: नात्मन: कामकारो हि पुरुषोऽयमनीश्वरः। इतश्चेतरतश्चैनं कृतान्तः परिकर्षति॥
English: No creature is endowed with the power of exercising any control over the course of events, man has no independent status (in nature).
Sanskrit: सर्वे क्षयान्ता निचयाः पतनान्ताः समुच्छ्याः। संयोगा विप्रयोगान्ता मरणान्तं च जीवितम्॥
English: The Destroyer draw him both here and hereafter. Those that increase, are destined to deteriorate; those that go upward, ultimately fall, those that come together, separate in the end; and life at length meet with death.
Sanskrit: यथा फलानां पक्वानां नान्यत्र पतनाद् भयम्। एवं नरस्य जातस्य नान्यत्र मरणाद् भयम्॥
English: As a ripe fruit has no other fear than fall, so man who is born, has no other fear than death.
Sanskrit: यथाऽऽगारं दृढस्थूणं जीर्णं भूत्वोपसीदति। तथावसीदन्ति नरा जरामृत्युवशंगताः॥
English: Even as a stout-pillared edifice, getting dilapidated, waxes weak, so men coming under the sway of decrepitude and death, get enfeebled.
Sanskrit: अत्येति रजनी या तु सा न प्रतिनिवर्तते। यात्येव यमुना पूर्ण समुद्रमुदकार्णवम्॥
English: A night that has gone by, does not return, as the full Yamunā, when she has entered the ocean, does not come back.
Sanskrit: अहोरात्राणि गच्छन्ति सर्वेषां प्राणिनामिह। आयूंषि क्षपयन्त्याशु ग्रीष्मे जलमिवांशवः॥
English: In this world, days and nights pass away with creatures, and speedily impair their lives, even as in summer the rays (of the sun) (dry up) the waters.
Sanskrit: आत्मानमनुशोच त्वं किमन्यमनुशोचसि। आयुस्तु हीयते यस्य स्थितस्यास्य गतस्य च॥
English: Do you therefore deplore yourself. Why do you lament any thing else? Every one's life is decreasing, whether he sits or moves.
Sanskrit: सहैव मृत्युजति सह मृत्युनिषीदति। गत्वा सुदीर्घमध्वानं सह मृत्युर्निवर्तते ॥
English: Death goes with one, sits down with one, and after having gone a long way, returns with one.
Sanskrit: गात्रेषु वलयः प्राप्ताः श्वेताश्चैव शिरोरुहाः। जरया पुरुषो जीर्णः किं हि कृत्वा प्रभावयेत्॥
English: The person is filled with folds in the skin, the hair has grown hoary, the individual is enfeebled because of age, by doing what, can be prevent this?
Sanskrit: नन्दन्त्युदित आदित्ये नन्दन्त्यस्तमितेऽहनि। आत्मनो नावबुध्यन्ते मनुष्या जीवितक्षयम्॥
English: People rejoice on the rising of the sun; they feel delighted at the approach of night, but they do not understand that their lives have (meanwhile) been shortened.
Sanskrit: हृष्यन्त्य॒तुमुखं दृष्ट्वा नवं नवमिवागतम्। ऋतूनां परिवर्तेन प्राणिनां प्राणसंक्षयः॥
English: People are exhilarated at the commencement of a new season of novel fashion; creatures get their lives shortened at the change of season.
Sanskrit: यथा काष्ठं च काष्ठं च समेयातां महार्णवे। समेत्य तु व्यपेयातां कालमासाद्य कंचन॥ एवं भार्याश्च पुत्राश्च ज्ञातयश्च वसूनि च। समेत्य व्यवधावन्ति ध्रुवो ह्येषां विनाभवः॥
English: As on the mighty ocean, one piece of wood comes in contact with another; so, a person, having been in association with another, is separated from him in time. In this way, wives and sons and kindred and wealth, having been in association, go away; their separation is certain.
Sanskrit: नात्र कश्चिद् यथाभावं प्राणी समतिवर्तते। तेन तस्मिन् न सामर्थ्य प्रेतस्यास्त्यनुशोचतः॥
English: There exists not one in this world that can change one's nature as received. A person lamenting a dead individual, has no power to prevent his own death.
Sanskrit: यथा हि सार्थं गच्छन्तं ब्रूयात् कश्चित् पथि स्थितः। अहमप्यागमिष्यामि पृष्ठतो भवतामिति ॥ एवं पूर्वैर्गतो मार्गः पैतृपितामहैध्रुवः। तमापन्नः कथं शोचेद् यस्य नास्ति व्यतिक्रमः॥ वयसः पतमानस्य स्रोतसो वानिवर्तिनः। आत्मा सुखे नियोक्तव्यः सुखभाजः प्रजाः स्मृताः।।३१।
English: As while one is proceeding on a road, another stationed by the way, says, 'I too will go in your wake,' even so, the way that has been followed by our predecessors, (must be followed as well by us.) Why should people mourn for deceased relatives), when they are themselves subject to the fate that knows no turning? (Perceiving the destruction of) life declining, like to a current that never turns back, one should engage his soul in happiness; for all men are said to be born for the same.
Sanskrit: भृत्यानां भरणात् सम्यक् प्रजानां परिपालनात्। अर्थादानाच्च धर्मेण पिता नस्त्रिदिवं गतः॥
English: Having renounced his human frame wasted and worn out with age, our father has attained celestial state, which exists in the regions of Brahma.
Sanskrit: कर्मभिस्तु शुभैरिष्टैः क्रतुभिश्चाप्तदक्षिणैः। स्वर्ग दशरथः प्राप्तः पिता नः पृथिवीपतिः॥ इष्ट्वा बहुविधैर्यज्ञैर्भोगांश्चावाप्य पुष्कलान्। उत्तमं चायुरासाद्य स्वर्गतः पृथिवीपतिः॥ आयुरुत्तममासाद्य भोगानपि च राघवः। न स शोच्यः पिता तात स्वर्गतः सत्कृतः सताम्।।३६। स जीर्णमानुषं देहं परित्यज्य पिता हि नः। दैवीमृद्धिमनुप्राप्तो ब्रह्मलोकविहारिणीम्॥ तं तु नैवंविधः कश्चित् प्राज्ञः शोचितुमर्हसि। त्वद्विधो मद्विधश्चापि श्रुतवान् बुद्धिमत्तर॥ एते बहुविधाः शोका विलापरुदिते तदा। वर्जनीया हि धारेण सर्वावस्थासु धीमता॥ स स्वस्थो भव मा शोको यात्वा चावस तां पुरीम्। तथा पित्रा नियुक्तोऽसि वशिना वदतां वर॥ यत्राहमपि तेनैव नियुक्तः पुण्यकर्मणा। तत्रैवाहं करिष्यामि पितुरार्यस्य शासनम्॥
English: Such an one should never be mourned by any wise person like you or myself, accomplished in learning and more than ordinarily intelligent. Such manifold grief and mourning and lamentation should be renounced by intelligent and firm persons in all conditions in life. Do you cast off this grief: let not sorrow overpower you. Going thither, stay in that city. And, O best of speakers, this was also enjoined by our sire of controlled sense. I also must do my noble father's will as to whatever that one of pious acts has laid upon me.
Sanskrit: न मया शासनं तस्य त्यक्तुं न्याय्यमरिंदम। स त्वयापि सदामान्यः स बन्धुः स नः पिता॥
English: O subduer foes, it is not proper for me to pass by his orders. So they are also worthy of being honoured by you. He is our friend and father.
Sanskrit: तद् वचः पितुरेवाहं सम्मतं धर्मचारिणाम्। कर्मणा पालयिष्यामि वनवासेन राघव॥
English: O descendant of Raghu, that mandate of our righteous father, acceptable to me, will I obey by abiding in the woods.
Sanskrit: धार्मिकेणानृशंसेन नरेण गुरुवर्तिना। भवितव्यं नरव्याघ्र परलोकं जिगीषता॥
English: O foremost of men, (good in the next world is capable of being attained by an honest and pious person crowned with sterling virtues, ever following his superiors.
Sanskrit: आत्मानमनुतिष्ठ त्वं स्वभावेन नरर्षभ। निशाम्य तु शुभं वृत्तं पितुर्दशरथस्य नः॥
English: O best of men, thinking that our father Dasaratha has attained excellent state, do you, resorting to all noble qualities, seek your welfare in the next world.
Sanskrit: इत्येवमुक्त्वा वचनं महात्मा पितुर्निदेशप्रतिपालनार्थम्। यवीयसं भ्रातरमर्थवच्च प्रभुर्मुहूर्ताद् विरराम रामः॥
English: Having said these significant words to his younger brother, with the view of making him obey the injuctions of their father, that lord, the magnanimous Rāma, paused.
Sanskrit: पुनरेवं ब्रुवाणं तं भरतं लक्ष्मणाग्रजः। प्रत्युवाच ततः श्रीमाज्ञातिमध्ये सुसत्कृतः॥
English: As Bharata was again ng in this strain, his graceful elder brother, having been highly honoured, answered Bharata in the midst of his relatives, saying.
Sanskrit: उपपन्नमिदं वाक्यं यस्त्वमेवमभाषथाः। जातः पुत्रो दशरथात् कैकेय्यां राजसत्तमात्॥
English: Having been born as a son to Daśaratha, foremost of monarchs, by Kaikeyſ, this speech of yours is worthy of you.
Sanskrit: पुरा भ्रातः पिता नः स मातरं ते समुद्वहन्। मातामहे समाश्चौषीद् राज्यशुल्कमनुत्तमम्॥
English: O brother, formerly when our father espoused the hand of your mother, he promised her the kingdom as her marriage portion.
Sanskrit: देवासुरे च संग्रामे जनन्यै तव पार्थिवः। सम्प्रहृष्टो ददौ राजा वरमाराधितः प्रभुः॥
English: Then on the occasion of the war between the gods and the Asuras, that master, the king, well pleased (with her), being besought, granted her a boon.
Sanskrit: ततः सा सम्प्रतिश्राव्य तव माता यशस्विनी। अयाचत नरश्रेष्ठं द्वौ वरौ वरवर्णिनी॥ तव राज्यं नरव्याघ्र मम प्रव्राजनं तथा। तच्च राजा तथा तस्यै नियुक्तः प्रददौ वरम्॥
English: Having been thus promised, that virtuous lady, your illustrious mother, O foremost of men, asked for two boons (of the king), viz., your enthronement, O best of men, and my banishment. Thus besought by her, the king conferred on her the boon.
Sanskrit: तेन पित्राहमप्यत्र नियुक्तः पुरुषर्षभ । चतुर्दश वने वासं वर्षाणि वरदानिकम्।७।।
English: And, you foremost of men, I have been enjoyed by my sire to stay in the woods for fourteen years, in consequence of his having granted her the boon.
Sanskrit: सोऽयं वनमिदं प्राप्तो निर्जनं लक्ष्मणान्वितः। सीतया चाप्रतिद्वन्द्वः सत्यवादे स्थितः पितुः॥
English: And, having, in company with Laksmana and Sītā, come to the lone forest, I in humble guise am staying in the truthful speech of my father.
Sanskrit: भवानपि तथेत्येव पितरं सत्यवादिनम्। कर्तुमर्हसि राजेन्द्र क्षिप्रमेवाभिषिञ्चनात्॥
English: You too, you foremost of kings, should in the same way speedily render our father truthful, by getting yourself installed.
Sanskrit: ऋणान्मोचय राजानं मत्कृते भरत प्रभुम्। पितरं त्राहि धर्मज्ञ मातरं चाभिनन्दय॥
English: O Bharata, for my sake, do you free that lord, the king, from his debts. Do you, O you cognizant of morality, deliver our father and gladden your mother.
Sanskrit: श्रूयते धीमता तात श्रुतिर्गीता यशस्विना। गयेन यजमानेन गयेष्वेव पितृन् प्रति॥
English: O child, we hear that in Gaya, formerly the famous Gaya, engaged in a sacrifice, chanted this Vedic hymn, for pleasing his departed ancestors.
Sanskrit: पुन्नाम्नो नरकाद् यस्मात् पितरं त्रायते सुतः। तस्मात् पुत्र इति प्रोक्तः पितृन् यः पाति सर्वतः॥
English: Since a son delivers his sire form the hell named Put, a son goes by the appellation of putra, he protecting his (departed) ancestors in every way.
Sanskrit: एष्टव्या बहवः पुत्रा गुणवन्तो बहुश्रुताः। तेषां वै समवेतानामपि कश्चिद् गयां व्रजेत्॥
English: One should wish for many sons crowned with qualities and versed in various lore, for the chance is that one at least of these may repair to Gayā.
Sanskrit: एवं राजर्षयः सर्वे प्रतीता रघुनन्दन। तस्मात् त्राहि नरश्रेष्ठ पितरं नरकात् प्रभो॥
English: O son of the Raghu race, the Rājarşis have delivered their decision on the point. Therefore, you foremost of men, do you, O lord, rescue your sire from hell.
Sanskrit: अयोध्यां गच्छ भरत प्रकृतीरुपरञ्जय। शत्रुघ्नसहितो वीर सह सर्वैद्विजातिभिः॥
English: O Bharata, go to Ayodhyā, and please the subjects, in company with Śatrughna, O hero, and all the regenerate ones.
Sanskrit: प्रवेक्ष्ये दण्डकारण्यमहमप्यविलम्बयन्। आभ्यां तु सहितो वीर वैदेह्या लक्ष्मणेन च॥
English: I also, O hero, without delay shall have to enter the forest of Dandaka in company with Lakşmaņa and Sītā.
Sanskrit: त्वं राजा भरत भव स्वयं नराणां वन्यानामहमपि राजराणमृगाणाम्। गच्छ त्वं पुरवरमद्य सम्प्रहृष्टः संहृष्टस्त्वहमपिदण्डकान् प्रवेक्ष्ये॥
English: O Bharata, be you yourself the monarch of men. I shall become the king of kings of deer. Go you to that foremost of cities with a glad heart: with a glad heart will I enter Dandaka.
Sanskrit: छायां ते दिनकरभाः प्रबाधमानं वर्षत्रं भरत करोतु मूर्धि शीताम्। एतेषामहमपि काननदुमाणां छायां तामतिशयिनीं शनैः श्रयिष्ये॥
English: O Bharata, let the umbrella barring out the rays of the sun, afford cool shade to your head: I shall happily seek the dense shade of these forest trees.
Sanskrit: शत्रुघ्नस्त्वतुलमतिस्तु ते सहायः सौमित्रिर्मम विदितः प्रधानमित्रम्। चत्वारस्तनयवरा वयं नरेन्द्र सत्यस्थं भरत चराम मा विषीद॥
English: Śatrughna endued with cleverness is your helper: Sumitrā's son is well known as my best friend. We four worthy sons of that foremost of monarchs will keep him established in truth, O Bharata. Let not your mind despond.