pari-kulkarni/itihasa-sanskrit-en-filtered huggingface dataset:
Sanskrit: अयं स पुरुषव्याघ्रो द्वारि तिष्ठति ते सुतः। ब्राह्मणेभ्यो धनं दत्त्वा सर्वं चैवोपजीविनाम्॥ स त्वां पश्यतु भद्रं ते रामः सत्यपराक्रमः। सर्वान् सुहृद आपृच्छ्य त्वां हीदानी दिदृक्षते॥ गमिष्यति महारण्यं तं पश्य जगतीपते। वृतं राजगुणैः सर्वैरादित्यमिव रश्मिभिः॥
English: O foremost of men, your son waits at the entrance, after having distributed wealth to Brāhmaṇas and his retinue. Let that one having truth for prowess, good betide you, see you. Having greeted all his friends, he now wishes to see you. Know that he is about to set out for the mighty forest. Do you, O Lord of earth, see him furnished with every perfection, like the Sun himself surrounded by his rays.:
Sanskrit: स सत्यवाक्यो धर्मात्मा गाम्भीर्यात् सागरोपमः। आकाश इव निष्पङ्को नरेन्द्रः प्रत्युवाच तम्॥
English: Thereupon, that virtuous and truthful (king) resembling the ocean by virtue of his gravity, and motionless like the welkin, answered Sumantra, saying.
Sanskrit: सुमन्त्रानय मे दारान् ये केचिदिह मामकाः। दारैः परिवृतः सर्वैर्द्रष्टुमिच्छामि राघवम्॥
English: O Sumantra, you bring hither my wives. who are here. I wish to see Rāma accompained with my wives.
Sanskrit: सोऽन्तः पुरमतीत्यैव स्त्रियस्ता वाक्यमब्रवीत्। आर्यो ह्वयति वो राजा गम्यतां तत्र मा चिरम्॥
English: Reaching the inner apartment, the charioteer said to the ladies, “The worshipful king calls you. Do you come speedily."
Sanskrit: एवमुक्ताः स्त्रियः सर्वाः सुमन्त्रेण नृपाज्ञया। प्रचक्रमुस्तद् भवनं भर्तुराज्ञाय शासनम् ॥
English: Thus addressed by Sumantra at the mandate of the monarch, the ladies in a body, informed of their husband's command, went to the king's apartment.
Sanskrit: अर्धसप्तशतास्तत्र प्रमदास्ताम्रलोचनाः। कौसल्यां परिवार्याथ शनैर्जग्मुर्धृतव्रताः॥
English: And three hundred and fifty females furnished with coppery eyes and observing vows, surrounding Kausalyā, proceeded slowly.
Sanskrit: आगतेषु च दारेषु समवेक्ष्य महीपतिः। उवाच राजा तं सूतं सुमन्त्रानय मे सुतम्॥
English: On the females coming there, the monarch seeing this, said to the charioteer, “O Sumantra, do you bring hither my son."
Sanskrit: स सूतो राममादाय लक्ष्मणं मैथिली तथा। जगामाभिमुखस्तूर्णं सकाशं जगतीपतेः॥
English: Thereat the charioteer taking Răma, Lakşmaņa an Mithila's daughter, speedily came before the lord of earth.
Sanskrit: स राजा पुत्रमायान्तं दृष्ट्वा चारात् कृताञ्जलिम्। उत्पपातासनात् तूर्णमार्तः स्त्रीजनसंवृतः॥
English: The king seeing his son drawing nigh with joined hands, nastily rose up from his seat in company with his wives.
Sanskrit: सोऽभिदुद्राव वेगेन रामं दृष्ट्वा विशाम्पतिः। तमसम्प्राप्य दुःखार्तः पपात भुवि मूर्च्छितः॥
English: And casting his eyes on Rāma, the king rushed towards him, but before reaching his son, the aggrieved monarch fell down to the earth in a Swoon.
Sanskrit: तं रामोऽभ्यपतत् क्षिप्रं लक्ष्मणश्च महारथः। विसंज्ञमिव दुःखेन सशोकं नृपतिं तथा॥
English: Rāma and that mighty car-warrior Lakşmaņa swiftly neared the king stricken with grief and rendered senseless by sorrow.
Sanskrit: स्त्रीसहस्रनिनादश्च संजज्ञे राजवेश्मनि। हा हा रामेति सहसा भूषणध्वनिमिश्रितः।।१९
English: And there arose in the palace cries of women by thousands of "Ah Rāma,” mingled with the tinkling of ornaments.
Sanskrit: तं परिष्वज्य बाहुभ्यां तावुभौ रामलक्ष्मणौ। पर्यङ्के सीतया सार्धं रुदन्तः समवेशयन्॥
English: Then both Rāma and Lakşmaņa along with Sītā took the king up with their arms, and with tears in their eyes laid him upon the couch.
Sanskrit: अथ रामो मुहूर्तस्य लब्धसंज्ञं महीपतिम्। उवाच प्राञ्जलिर्बाष्पशोकार्णवपरिप्लुतम्॥
English: When the lord of the earth oppressed with the vapour begot of grief and overwhelmed with emotion, had regained his senses, Rāma with joined palms said.
Sanskrit: आपृच्छे त्वां महाराज सर्वेषामीश्वरोऽसि नः। प्रस्थितं दण्डकारण्यं पश्य त्वं कुशलेन माम्॥
English: I ask you, O mighty monarch, as you are the lord of us all. Do you see me safely despatched to the forest of Dandaka.
Sanskrit: लक्ष्मणं चानुजानीहि सीता चान्वेतु मां वनम्। कारणैर्बहुभिस्तथ्यैर्वार्यमाणौ न चेच्छतः।।२३ अनुजानीहि सर्वान् नः शोकमुत्सृज्य मानद। लक्ष्मणं मां च सीतां च प्रजापतिरिवात्मजान्॥
English: Do you permit Lakşmaņa, and let Sītā also follow me to the woods; for although prohibited by me with various reasons, they do not wish to be left behind. Do you O bestower of honour, permit us all, renouncing sorrow, Lakṣmaṇa and Sītā and me, like Prajāpati permitting his sons.
Sanskrit: प्रतीक्षमाणमव्यग्रमनुज्ञां जगतीपतेः। उवाच राजा सम्प्रेक्ष्य वनवासाय राघवम्॥
English: Seeing Rāghava about to set out for the forest, the lord of earth said to the calm Rāma waiting for his orders.
Sanskrit: अहं राघव कैकेय्या वरदानेन मोहितः। अयोध्यायां त्वमेवाद्य भव राजा निगृह्य माम्॥
English: O Rāghava, I have been deprived of my senses in consequence of my having conferred boons on Kaikeyi. Do you therefore confining me to-day become king in Ayodhyā.
Sanskrit: एवमुक्तो नृपतिनां रामो धर्मभृतां वरः। प्रत्युवाचाञ्जलिं कृत्वा पितरं वाक्यकोविदः॥
English: Thus addressed by the monarch, Rāma, the best of the righteous, well versed in speech, with joined hands addressed his father thus.
Sanskrit: भवान् वर्षसहस्राय पृथिव्या नृपते पतिः। अहं त्वरण्ये वत्स्यामि न मे राज्यस्य कासिता ।।२८।
English: O king, do you rule this earth for a thousand years, I will reside in the forest. I do not wish for the kingdom.
Sanskrit: नव पञ्च च वर्षाणि वनवासे विहृत्य ते। पुनः पादौ ग्रहीष्यामि प्रतिज्ञान्ते नराधिप ॥
English: Having spent five and nine years in the woods, I shall again embrace your feet, O lord of men, after fulfilling your vow.
Sanskrit: रुदत्रातः प्रियं पुत्रं सत्यपाशेन संयुतः। कैकेय्या चोद्यमानस्तु मिथो राजा तमब्रवीत्॥
English: Fettered in the net of promise, the king bewailing his beloved son, secretly spurred on by Kaikeyi, said.
Sanskrit: श्रेयसे वृद्धये तातं पुनरागमनाय च। गच्छस्वारिष्टमव्यग्रः पन्थानमकुतोभयम्॥
English: Do you, my darling, with the view of attaining welfare here and hereafter and auspicious fortune, go calmly your fearless way, so that you may return hither (in time.)
Sanskrit: न हि सत्यात्मनस्तात धर्माभिमनसस्तव। संनिवर्तयितुं बुद्धिः शक्यते रघुनन्दन॥ अद्य त्विदानी रजनी पुत्र मा गच्छ सर्वथा। एकाहं दर्शनेनापि साधु तावच्चराम्यहम्॥
English: I dare not, O descendant of the Raghu race, forbid you who are established in truth and who are bent upon discharging your duty. But, O son, do not by any means depart to night: beholding you even for a single day, I shall feed with you.
Sanskrit: मातरं मां च सम्पश्यन् वसेमामद्य शर्वरीम्। तर्पितः सर्वकामैस्त्वं श्वः काल्ये साधयिष्यसि ॥
English: Do you, seeing me as well as your mother, stay here to-night, Then ministered to every way, you will set out to-morrow.
Sanskrit: दुष्करं क्रियते पुत्र सर्वथा राघव प्रिय। त्वया हि मत्प्रियार्थं तु वनमेवमुपाश्रितम्॥
English: O son, O beloved Rāghava, difficult is the task that you are going to perform, for compassing my good in the next world, you are ready to repair to the very woods!
Sanskrit: न चैतन्मे प्रियं पुत्र शपे सत्येन राघव। छत्रया चलितस्त्वस्मि स्त्रिया भस्माग्निकल्पया॥ वञ्चना या तु लब्धा मे तां त्वं निस्तर्तुमिच्छसि। अनया वृत्तसादिन्या कैकेय्याभिप्रचोदितः॥
English: But, O Raghava, I swear to you, this is anything but agreeable to me, my son. I have been made to swerve from my purpose by the crafty Kaikeyi resembling a fire hidden under ashes. You are going to give effect to the deceit that has been practised upon me by this woman intent upon sullying her line.
Sanskrit: न चैतदाश्चर्यतमं यत् त्वं ज्येष्ठः सुतो मम। अपानृतकथं पुत्र पितरं कर्तुमिच्छसि॥
English: And as you are my eldest son, it is no wonder, O son, that you should wish to maintain your father's truth.
Sanskrit: अथ रामस्तदा श्रुत्वा पितुरातस्य भाषितम्। लक्ष्मणेन सह भ्रात्रा दीनो वचनमब्रवीत्॥
English: Hearing these words of his distressed father, the humble Rāma, along with his brother Laksmana, said.
Sanskrit: प्राप्स्यामि यानद्य गुणान् को मे श्वस्तान् प्रदास्यति। अपक्रमणमेवातः सर्वकामैरहं वृणे॥
English: Who will confer on me the merit to-morrow that I shall reap by going to-day? Therefore, I prefer even the journey to the woods to enjoying comforts here.
Sanskrit: इयं सराष्ट्रा सजना धनधान्यसमाकुला। मया विसृष्टा वसुधा भरताय प्रदीयताम्॥ वनवासकृता बुद्धिर्न च मेऽद्य चलिष्यति। यस्तु युद्धे वरो दत्तः कैकेय्यै वरद त्वया।॥ दीयतां निखिलेनैव सत्यस्त्वं भव पार्थिव।
English: Do you bestow upon Bharata this earth renounced by me, this kingdom abounding in corn and kine and filled with people; my mind determined upon dwelling in the forest, does not waver. Do you, O bestower of boons, grant Kaikeyi everything that you had promised to her at the time of the war* Another reading is, The boon that you had well-pleased conferred., Another reading, Nor Mithila's daughter., Another reading is, Nor any of these worlds., (you had waged against the Dänavas), and thereby do you follow truth.
Sanskrit: अहं निदेशं भवतो यथोक्तमनुपालयन् ॥ चतुर्दश समा वत्स्ये वने वनचरैः सह। मा विमर्शो वसुमती भरताय प्रदीयताम्॥
English: Obeying the mandate that you have issued, I will dwell in the forest for fourteen years in the company of the rangers of the woods. Do you without feeling any compunction confer the earth on Bharata.
Sanskrit: नहि मे काशितं राज्यं सुखमात्मनि वा प्रियम्। यथानिदेशं कर्तुं वै तवैव रघुनन्दन ॥
English: Mine is not the desire to obtain the kingdom for enjoying happiness or attaining any benefit. I will, O descendant of the Raghu race, do your bidding.
Sanskrit: अपगच्छतु ते दुःखं मा भूर्बाष्पपरिप्लुतः। नहि क्षुभ्यति दुर्धर्षः समुद्रः सरितां पतिः।॥
English: Banish your grief, and suppress your tears. That lord of streams, the irresistible ocean, never forsakes his own magnanimity.
Sanskrit: नैवाहं राज्यमिच्छामि न सुखं न च मेदिनीम्। नैव सर्वानिमान् कामान् न स्वर्गं न च जीवितुम्॥
English: I desire neither dominion, nor happiness, nor the earth, nor any object of enjoyment, nor heaven, nor life.
Sanskrit: त्वामहं सत्यमिच्छामि नानृतं पुरुषर्षभ। प्रत्यक्षं तव सत्येन सुकृतेन च ते शपे॥ न च शक्यं मया तात स्थातुं क्षणमपि प्रभो। स शोकं धारयस्वेमं नहि मेऽस्ति विपर्ययः॥
English: O foremost of men, all I wish for is that you may not come by falsehood, and abide by truth. I truly and in good sooth swear before you that I cannot, O lord, remain here for a moment longer, O my father. Do you bear this grief. I cannot for certain act contrary to my promise.
Sanskrit: अर्थितो ह्यस्मि कैकेय्या वनं गच्छेति राघव। मया चोक्तं व्रजामीति तत्सत्यमनुपालये॥
English: Directed by Kaikeyi saying, 'Do you, O Rāghava, go to the forest,' I had said, 'I will go,', That promise I must accomplish.
Sanskrit: मा चोत्कण्ठां कृथा देव वने रंस्यामहे वयम्। प्रशान्तहरिणाकीर्णे नानाशकुनिनादिते॥
English: Do you not, O revered one, feel aggrieved. We will abide in the forest abounding in mild deer and resounding with the notes of various birds.
Sanskrit: पिता हि दैवतं तात देवतानामपि स्मृतम्। तस्माद् दैवतमित्येव करिष्यामि पितुर्वचः॥
English: The father is a very God, even the celestials say this. Therefore will I look upon your word in the light of divinity.
Sanskrit: चतुर्दशसु वर्षेषु गतेषु नृपसत्तम। पुनर्द्रक्ष्यसि मां प्राप्तं संतापोऽयं विमुच्यताम्॥
English: O best of monarchs, after the fourteen years have been spent, you will see me again by your side, therefore do you banish this grief.
Sanskrit: येन संस्तम्भनीयोऽयं सर्वो वाष्पकलो जनः। स त्वं पुरुषशार्दूल किमर्थं विक्रियां गतः॥
English: Why do you, O foremost of men, who will suppress other's grief, undergo this alteration?
Sanskrit: पुरं च राष्ट्रं च मही च केवला मया विसृष्टा भरताय दीयताम्। अहं निदेशं भवतोऽनुपालयन् वनं गमिष्यामि चिराय सेवितुम्॥
English: Do upon Bharata this city and this kingdom and the earth renounced by me. Doing your behest, I will repair to the forest, sojourning there for a long time.
Sanskrit: मया विसृष्टां भरतो महीमिमां सशैलखण्डां सपुरोपकाननाम्। शिवासु सीमास्वनुशास्तु केवलं त्वया यदुक्तं नृपते तथास्तु तत्॥
English: Staying at the auspicious frontiers, let Bharata barely rule this earth furnished with watery expanses, cities and forests, when it has been renounced by me. O king, let what you have said be as you wish it.
Sanskrit: न मे तथा पार्थिव दीयते मनो महत्सु कामेषु न चात्मनः प्रिये। यथा निदेशे तव शिष्टसम्मते व्यपैतु दु:खं तव मत्कृतेऽनघ ॥
English: You confer I do not, O king, set my heart upon any great object of desire, nor do I seek my own behoof, as I am bent upon, O you beloved of the good, working out your will. O sinless one, you will not therefore reap any evil on my account.
Sanskrit: तदद्य नैवानघ राज्यमव्ययं न सर्वकामान् वसुधां न मैथिलीम्। न चिन्तितं त्वामनृतेन योजयन् वृणीय सत्यं व्रतमस्तु ते तथा॥
English: Associating you with untruth, I would not, O sinless one, wish even for your company who are agitated with anxiety,* or this entire kingdom, or every object of desire, or the earth, or Mithilā's daughter. Even this is my truthful vow, let also your vow prove true. *Some texts, Living.
Sanskrit: फलानि मूलानि च भक्षयन् वने गिरीश्च पश्यन् सरितः सरांसि च। वनं प्रविश्यैव विचित्रपादपं सुखी भविष्यामि तवास्तु निर्वृतिः॥
English: Living upon fruits and roots in the forest, and surveying mountains and tanks and streams and graceful trees, I shall be happy on entering the forest. Do you cease to lament.
Sanskrit: स्तापेन दुःखेन च पीड्यमानः। आलिङ्गय पुत्रं सुविनष्टसंज्ञो भूमिं गतो नैव विचष्ट किंचित्॥
English: Thus benetted with calamities and exercised with grief and anguish, the king embraced his son, and then deprived of his consciousness, fell down on the ground and became motionless.
Sanskrit: स्तां वर्जयित्वा नरदेवपत्नीम्। रुदन् सुमन्त्रोऽपि जगाम मूछा हाहाकृतं तत्र बभूव सर्वम्॥
English: Thereat all the queens save that wife of the monarch (Kaikeyi) bewailed together; and crying Sumantra also went into a swoon. And the place was filled all around with exclamations of “O” and “Alas"
Sanskrit: ततो निधूय सहसा शिरो निःश्वस्य चासकृत्। पाणिं पाणौ विनिष्पिष्य दन्तान् कटकटाय्य च॥ लोचने कोपसंरक्ते वर्णं पूर्वोचितं जहत्। कोपाभिभूतः सहसा संतापमशुभं गतः॥ मनः समीक्षमाणश्च सूतो दशरथस्य च। कम्पयन्निव कैकेय्या हृदयं वाक्शरैः शितैः॥ वाक्यवत्रैरनुपमैर्निर्भिन्दन्निव चाशुभैः। कैकेय्याः सर्वमर्माणि सुमन्त्रः प्रत्यभाषत।४।।
English: Then shaking his head and sighing again and again, pressing palm upon palm and grinding teeth upon teeth, with eyes reddened in wrath and an altered complexion, and suddenly waxing angry and moved with grief, Sumantra witnessing the mental condition of Daſaratha said, shaking Kaikeyi's heart with the sharpened shafts of his speech and piercing her mind all over with his harsh words resembling thunderbolts.
Sanskrit: यस्यास्तव पतिस्त्यक्तो राजा दशरथः स्वयम्। भर्ता सर्वस्य जगतः स्थावरस्य चरस्य च॥ नाकार्यतमं किंचित्तव देवीह विद्यते। पतिघ्नीं त्वामहं मन्ये कुलघ्नीमपि चान्ततः॥
English: O worshipful one, since you have forsaken king Dasaratha, the maintainer of this world and the mobile and the immobile that it contains, there is nothing that is incapable of being done by you. I consider you the murderess of your husband and as one that has finally exterminated one's line.
Sanskrit: यन्महेन्द्रमिवाजय्यं दुष्प्रकम्प्यमिवाजलम्। महोदधिमिवाक्षोभ्यं संतापयसि कर्मभिः॥
English: Inasmuch as you have by your act afflicted the Monarch invincible like Indra, firm as a hill and imperturbable like the deep itself.
Sanskrit: मावमंस्था दशरथं भर्तारं वरदं पतिम्। भर्तुरिच्छा हि नारीणां पुत्रकोट्या विशिष्यते॥
English: You ought not to bring down your boonbestowing lord and husband Daśaratha; for surely the wish of a husband to a wife outweighs a koti of sons.
Sanskrit: यथावयो हि राज्यानि प्राप्नुवन्ति नृपक्षये। इक्ष्वाकुकुलनाथेऽस्मिस्तं लोपयितुमिच्छसि।।।
English: The princes will obtain the kingdom one after another according to age;, this custom it is your study to render nugatory even when the lord of the Ikşvāku race is still alive.
Sanskrit: राजा भवतु ते पुत्रो भरतः शास्तु मेदिनीम्। वयं तत्र गमिष्यामो यत्र रामो गमिष्यति॥
English: Let your son be king; let Bharata rule the earth: we, however, will go where goes Ráma.
Sanskrit: न च ते विषये कश्चिद् ब्राह्मणो वस्तुमर्हति। तादृशं त्वममर्यादमद्य कर्म करिष्यसि॥
English: No Brāhmaṇa will dwell in your dominion, such is the ungracious deed you are going to do. [Surely we will go the way that is wended by Rama.
Sanskrit: नूनं सर्वे गमिष्यामो मार्ग रामनिषेवितम्। त्यक्ता या बान्धवैः सर्वैर्ब्राह्मणैः साधुभिः सदा॥ का प्रीती राज्यलाभेन तव देवि भविष्यति। तादृशं त्वममर्यादं कर्म कर्तुं चिकीर्षसि ॥
English: And what happiness, O revered one, will you, forsaken by friends, Brāhmaṇas and the saintly, reap by remaining here, allured by the lust of dominion? And you are going to do such an act!]
Sanskrit: आश्चर्यमिव पश्यामि यस्यास्ते वृत्तमीदृशम्। आचरन्त्या न विदृता सद्यो भवति मेदिनी॥
English: A wonder it is that I perceive, viz., that the carth hid by a character like you is not riven this very day.
Sanskrit: महाब्रह्मर्षिसृष्टा वा ज्वलन्तो भीमदर्शनाः। धिग्वाग्दण्डा न हिंसन्ति रामप्रव्राजने स्थिताम्॥
English: Why does not the flaming and dreadful censure uttered by the mighty Brahmarşis destroy you who are bent upon banishing Rāma?
Sanskrit: आनं छित्वा कुठारेण निम्बं परिचरेत् तु कः। यश्चैनं पयसा सिञ्चेन्नैवास्य मधुरो भवेत्॥
English: Who having hewn a mango tree by his axe, tend a Nimba? It never turns sweet for him that waters it.
Sanskrit: आभिजात्यं हि ते मन्ये यथा मातुस्तथैव च। न हि निम्बात् स्रवेत् क्षौद्रं लोके निगदितं वचः॥
English: Your birth is noble indeed; it is as much so as is your mother's. They say that sweet is never extracted from Nimba.
Sanskrit: तव मातुरसग्राहं विद्म पूर्वं यथा श्रुतम्। पितुस्ते वरदः कश्चिद् ददौ वरमनुत्तमम्॥
English: I remember what I have heard from old men concerning the vicious inclinations of your mother. Some one intent upon conferring boons conferred an excellent one on your father.
Sanskrit: सर्वभूतरुतं तस्मात् संजज्ञे वसुधाधिपः। तेन तिर्यग्गतानां च भूतानां विदितं वचः॥
English: In virtue of this, that lord of earth could understand the import of sounds emitted by all beings, and it is in consequence of this that he could understand the speech even of birds and beasts.
Sanskrit: ततो जम्भस्य शयने विरुताद् भूरिवर्चसः। पितुस्ते विदितो भावः स तत्र बहुधाहसत्॥
English: One day as your father was lying down, he, understanding the thoughts of a gold-hued Jrmbha bird, from its cries, laughed heartily.
Sanskrit: तत्र ते जननी क्रुद्धा मृत्युपाशमभीप्सती। हासं ते नृपते सौम्य जिज्ञासामीति चाब्रवीत्॥
English: Thereat your mother getting angry, wishing for the noose of death, said, 'O king, O placid one, I ask you for the reason of your daughter.'
Sanskrit: नृपश्चोवाच तां देवीं हासं शंसामि ते यदि। ततो मे मरणं सद्यो भविष्यति न संशयः॥
English: The king replied, 'O worshipful lady, if I unfold to you the reason of my laugh, then I shall without doubt die to day.'
Sanskrit: माता ते पितरं देवि पुनः केकयमब्रवीत्। शंस मे जीव वा मा वा न मां त्वं प्रहसिष्यसि॥
English: But that revered one, your mother, again urged Kekaya, saying, 'Tell it to me, whether you live or die; for (when I have learnt all about it), you will not be able to laugh at me again.
Sanskrit: प्रियया च तथोक्तः सः केकयः पृथिवीपतिः। तस्मै तं वरदायार्थं कथयामास तत्त्वतः॥
English: Thus addressed by his beloved spouse, that lord of earth Kekaya went to the saint that had conferred the boon on him and related to him everything faithfully.
Sanskrit: ततः स वरदः साधू राजानं प्रत्यभाषत। म्रियतां ध्वंसतां वेयं मा शंसीस्त्वं महीपते॥
English: Thereupon that boon-giving saint said to the king; “Whether this one kills herself or be destroyed, do you not, O king, reveal it."
Sanskrit: स तच्छ्रुत्वा वचस्तस्य प्रसन्नमनसो नृपः। मातरं ते निरस्याशु विजहार कुबेरवत्॥
English: Hearing these words of his, the king well pleased summarily forsook your mother and began to divert himself like Kuvera.
Sanskrit: तथा त्वमपि राजानं दुर्जनाचरिते पथि। असद्ग्राहमिमं मोहात् कुरुषे पापदर्शिनी॥
English: Even in the same way, you, O you that see only evil, staying in an unrighteous course, befouling the king's sense, endeavour to make him commit this wrong.
Sanskrit: सत्यश्चात्र प्रवादोऽयं लौकिकः प्रतिभाति मा। पितॄन् समनुजायन्ते नरा मातरमङ्गनाः॥
English: In this connection I remember a saying, viz., men take after their fathers, and women their mothers.
Sanskrit: नैवं भव गृहाणेदं यदाह वसुधाधिपः। भर्तुरिच्छामुपास्येह जनस्यास्य गतिर्भव॥
English: Do not be so, do you even accept what the lord of earth says. Doing the will of your lord, do you become the refuge of us all.
Sanskrit: मा त्वं प्रोत्साहिता पापैर्देवराजसमप्रभम्। भर्तारं लोकभर्तारमसद्धर्ममुपादघ ॥
English: Do not incited by evil propensities, make your husband, the lord of men endued with the prowess of the celestial chief, perpetrate an unrighteous deed.
Sanskrit: नहि मिथ्या प्रतिज्ञातं करिष्यति तवानघः। श्रीमान् दशरथो राजा देवि राजीवलोचनः॥ ज्येष्ठो वदान्यः कर्मण्यः स्वधर्मस्यापि रक्षिता। रक्षिता जीवलोकस्य बली रामोऽभिषिच्यताम्॥ परिवादो हि ते देवि महाँल्लोके चरिष्यति। यदि रामो वनं याति विहाय पितरं नृपम्॥
English: That sinless one will not for certain give práctical effect to the promise jestingly made by you. ) worshipful one, king Dasaratha is graceful, being furnished with eyes resembling lotuses. Let him install his eldest son, Rāma generous and able, maintaining his own religion, the protector of all men and endued with might. O revered lady, great is the obloquy that will spread concerning you, if leaving his royal father, Rāma repair to the forest.
Sanskrit: स्वराज्यं राघवः पातु भव त्वं विगतज्वरा। नहि ते राघवादन्यः क्षमः पुरवरे वसन्॥
English: Let therefore Rāghava govern his kingdom; and do you remove your agitation. Surely save Rāghava none residing in the kingdom will prove friendly to you.
Sanskrit: रामे हि यौवराज्यस्थे राजा दशरथो वनम्। प्रवेक्ष्यति महेष्वासः पूर्ववृत्तमनुस्मरन्॥
English: On Rāma being installed as the heir-apparent, that best of bowmen, king Dasaratha, will depart for the forest, remembering ancient examples.
Sanskrit: इति सान्त्वैश्च तीक्ष्णैश्च कैकेयी राजसंसदि। भूयः संक्षोभयामास सुमन्त्रस्तु कृताञ्जलिः॥ नैव सा क्षुभ्यते देवी न च स्म परिदूयते । न चास्या मुखवर्णस्य लक्ष्यते विक्रिया तदा॥
English: Thus in presence of the king, Sumantra with clasped palms, with soft yet cutting words endeavoured to strike Kaikeyi with regret. But that noble dame did not feel any compunction, nor was she touched 'with regret. And the complexion of her countenance remained as it was before.
Sanskrit: महामात्रवचः श्रुत्वा रामो दशरथं तदा। अभ्यभाषत वाक्यं तु विनयज्ञो विनीतवत्॥
English: Hearing the words of that worthy, Rāma conversant with modesty, humbly addressed Dasaratha, saying.
Sanskrit: त्यक्तभोगस्य मे राजन् वने वन्येन जीवतः। किं कार्यमनुयात्रेण त्यक्तसङ्गस्य सर्वतः॥
English: What O king, have I, that am renouncing everything and am going to dwell in the forest subsisting on what the forest yields, to do with a following?
Sanskrit: यो हि दत्त्वा द्विपश्रेष्ठं कक्ष्यायां कुरुते मनः। रज्जुस्नेहेन किं तस्य त्यजतः कुञ्जरोत्तमम्॥
English: Of what avail is a person's attachment for the tether of a goodly elephant, when the elephant itself is renounced by him?
Sanskrit: तथा मम सतां श्रेष्ठ किं ध्वजिन्या जगत्पते। सर्वाण्येवानुजानामि चीराण्येवानयन्तु मे॥
English: Thus it is with me, O foremost of righteous ones. What shal! I do with the army, O lord of men? I will confer everything on Bharata. Let them bring me a venture of bark.
Sanskrit: खनित्रपिटके चोभे समानयत गच्छत। चतुर्दश वने वासं वर्षाणि वसतो मम॥
English: And for me who will go to the forest and reside there for fourteen years, bring a hoe and a basket.
Sanskrit: अथ चीराणि कैकेयी स्वयमाहृत्य राघवम्। उवाच परिधत्स्वेति जनौघे निरपत्रपा॥
English: Thereupon Kaikeyi herself brought a bark dress and that shameless one said to Rāghava in the presence of all, “Do you wear this.”
Sanskrit: पुरुषव्याघ्रः कैकेय्याः : प्रतिगृह्य ते। सूक्ष्मवस्त्रमवक्षिप्य मुनिवस्त्राण्यवस्त ह॥
English: On this, that foremost of men taking those two pieces of bark from Kaikeyi, left his fine attire and put on the ascetic garb.
Sanskrit: स चीरे लक्ष्मणश्चापि तत्रैव विहाय वसने शुभे। तापसाच्छादने चैव जग्राह पितुरग्रतः॥
English: And Lakşmaņa also, renouncing his choice raiment, put on the dress of an anchorite before his father.