Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa · Sarga 2.103
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2.103.1
वसिष्ठः पुरतः कृत्वा दारान् दशरथस्य च ।
अभिचक्राम तं देशं रामदर्शनतर्षितः ॥ २.१०३.१ ॥
Vasiṣṭha, thirsting for the sight of Rāma, went toward that place, placing Daśaratha's wives in front.
2.103.2
राजपत्न्यश्च गच्छन्त्यो मन्दं मन्दाकिनीं प्रति ।
ददृशुस्तत्र तत्तीर्थं रामलक्ष्मणसेवितम् ॥ २.१०३.२ ॥
The royal wives, going slowly toward the Mandākinī, saw there the sacred bathing place frequented by Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa.
2.103.3
कौसल्या बाष्पपूर्णेन मुखेन परिशुष्यता ।
सुमित्रामब्रवीद्दीना याश्ऺचान्या राजयोषितः ॥ २.१०३.३ ॥
Kausalyā, her face full of tears and growing dry, sorrowfully spoke to Sumitrā and the other royal women.
2.103.4
इदं तेषामनाथानां क्लिष्टमक्लिष्टकर्मणाम् ।
वने प्राक्केवलं तीर्थं ये ते निर्विषयीकृताः ॥ २.१०३.४ ॥
This sacred bathing place is the sorrowful place of those forlorn ones, whose deeds were blameless and who were once stripped of their realm in the forest.
2.103.5
इतः सुमित्रे पुत्रस्ते सदा जलमतन्द्रितः ।
स्वयं हरति सौमित्रिर्मम पुत्रस्य कारणात् ॥ २.१०३.५ ॥
Here, O Sumitrā, your son Saumitri himself always tirelessly fetches water for the sake of my son.
2.103.6
जघन्यमपि ते पुत्रः कृतवान्न तु गर्हितः ।
भ्रातुर्यदर्थसहितं सर्वं तद्विहितं गुणैः ॥ २.१०३.६ ॥
Your son has done even a menial task, yet he is not to be blamed; all that was done for his brother's sake was done with virtues.
2.103.7
अद्यायमपि ते पुत्रः क्लेशानामतथोचितः ।
नीचानर्थसमाचारं सज्जं कर्म प्रमुञ्चतु ॥ २.१०३.७ ॥
Now let this son of yours, who does not deserve hardships, give up base and ruinous conduct and abandon the proper duty that is his.
2.103.8
दक्षिणाग्रेषु दर्भेषु सा ददर्श महीतले ।
पितुरिङ्गुदिपिण्याकं न्यस्तमायतलोचना ॥ २.१०३.८ ॥
On kuśa grass with its tips turned southward, she saw on the ground the oil-cake of iṅgudi fruit placed for her father.
2.103.9
तं भूमौ पितुरार्तेन न्यस्तं रामेण वीक्ष्य सा ।
उवाच देवी कौसल्या सर्वा दशरथस्त्रियः ॥ २.१०३.९ ॥
Seeing that offering placed on the ground by the grief-stricken Rāma for his father, the queen Kausalyā spoke to all the wives of Daśaratha.
2.103.10
इदमिक्ष्वाकुनाथस्य राघवस्य महात्मनः ।
राघवेण पितुर्दत्तं पश्यतैतद्यथाविधि ॥ २.१०३.१० ॥
This was given by Rāghava to his father, the great-souled lord of the Ikṣvākus, Rāghava's father. Look at it, as the rite prescribes.
2.103.11
तस्य देवसमानस्य पार्थिवस्य महात्मनः ।
नैतदौपयिकं मन्ये भुक्तभोगस्य भोजनम् ॥ २.१०३.११ ॥
For that king, equal to a god and great-souled, who has enjoyed pleasures, I do not think this food is fitting.
2.103.12
चतुरन्तां महीं भुक्त्वा महेन्द्रसदृशो विभुः ।
कथमिङ्गुदिपिण्याकं स भुङ्क्ते वसुधाधिपः ॥ २.१०३.१२ ॥
Having enjoyed the earth bounded by four oceans, that lord, equal to Mahendra, how can that ruler of the earth now eat oil-cake of iṅgudi fruit?
2.103.13
अतो दुःखतरं लोके न किञ्चित् प्रतिभाति मा ।
यत्र रामः पितुर्दद्यादिङ्गुदीक्षोदमृद्धिमान् ॥ २.१०३.१३ ॥
Therefore nothing in the world seems to me more sorrowful than that Rāma, so rich in fortune, should give his father a paste of iṅgudī fruit.
2.103.14
रामेणेङ्गुदिपिण्याकं पितुर्दत्तं समीक्ष्य मे ।
कथं दुःखेन हृदयं न स्फोटति सहस्रधा ॥ २.१०३.१४ ॥
Seeing the iṅgudī paste that Rāma gave his father, how is it that my heart does not burst into a thousand pieces with grief?
2.103.15
श्रुतिस्तु खल्वियं सत्या लौकिकी प्रतिभाति मा ।
यदन्नः पुरुषो भवति तदन्नास्तस्य देवताः ॥ २.१०३.१५ ॥
This worldly saying of the Vedas now seems true to me: as a man's food is, so are his gods.
2.103.16
एवमार्त्तां सपत्न्यस्ता जग्मुराश्वास्य तां तदा ।
ददृशुश्चाश्रमे रामं स्वर्गच्युतमिवामरम् ॥ २.१०३.१६ ॥
Having thus comforted the grieving Kausalyā, the co-wives departed, and in the hermitage they saw Rāma, like a god fallen from heaven.
2.103.17
सर्वभोगैः परित्यक्तं रामं सम्प्रेक्ष्य मातरः ।
आर्त्ता मुमुचुरश्रूणि सस्वरं शोककर्शिताः ॥ २.१०३.१७ ॥
Seeing Rāma deprived of all comforts, the mothers, wasted with sorrow and distressed, wept aloud and shed tears.
2.103.18
तासां रामः समुत्थाय जग्राह चरणान् शुभान् ।
मातऽणां मनुजव्याघ्रः सर्वासां सत्यसङ्गरः ॥ २.१०३.१८ ॥
Rising and going to them, Rāma, best of men and true to his vow, took hold of the auspicious feet of all the mothers.
2.103.19
ताः पाणिभिः सुखस्पर्शैर्मृद्वङ्गुलितलैः शुभैः ।
प्रममार्जू रजः पृष्ठाद्रामस्यायतलोचनाः ॥ २.१०३.१९ ॥
With their soft, auspicious fingertips and pleasant touch, those long-eyed mothers brushed the dust from Rāma's back.
2.103.20
सौमित्रिरपि ताः सर्वाः मातऽः सम्प्रेक्ष्य दुःखितः ।
अभ्यवादयतासक्तं शनै रामादनन्तरम् ॥ २.१०३.२० ॥
Saumitri, too, seeing all those mothers, grieved, and one after another, slowly, following Rāma, he bowed to them.
2.103.21
यथा रामे तथा तस्मिन् सर्वा ववृतिरे स्त्रियः ।
वृत्तिं दशरथाज्जाते लक्ष्मणे शुभलक्षणे ॥ २.१०३.२१ ॥
As they had behaved toward Rāma, so all those women behaved toward Lakṣmaṇa, born of Daśaratha, of auspicious marks.
2.103.22
सीतापि चरणांस्तासामुपसंगृह्य दुःखिता ।
श्वश्रूणामश्रुपूर्णाक्षी सा बभूवाग्रतः स्थिता ॥ २.१०३.२२ ॥
Sītā too, grieving, clasped the feet of those mothers-in-law, and stood before them with eyes full of tears.
2.103.23
तां परिष्वज्य दुःखार्त्तां माता दुहितरं यथा ।
वनवासकृशां दीनां कौसल्या वाक्यमब्रवीत् ॥ २.१०३.२३ ॥
Embracing her, grief-stricken, thin from forest-exile and wretched, as a mother embraces a daughter, Kausalyā spoke these words.
2.103.24
विदेहराजस्य सुता स्नुषा दशरथस्य च ।
रामपत्नी कथं दुःखं सम्प्राप्ता निर्जने वने ॥ २.१०३.२४ ॥
Daughter of the king of Videha, daughter-in-law of Daśaratha, wife of Rāma—how have you come to suffer such sorrow in a desolate forest?
2.103.25
पद्ममातपसन्तप्तं परिक्लिष्टमिवोत्पलम् ।
काञ्चनं रजसा ध्वस्तं क्लिष्टं चन्द्रमिवाम्बुदैः ॥ २.१०३.२५ ॥
Like a lotus scorched by the sun, like a withered blue lotus, like gold dulled by dust, like the moon clouded over by rain-clouds — such was she.
2.103.26
मुखं ते प्रेक्ष्य मां शोको दहत्यग्निरिवाश्रयम्
भृशं मनसि वैदेहि व्यसनारणिसम्भवः ॥ २.१०३.२६ ॥
Seeing your face, O Vaidehī, grief burns deeply in my mind, as fire burns its own shelter; this grief is born from the fire-stick of calamity.
2.103.27
ब्रुवन्त्यामेवमार्त्तायां जनन्यां भरताग्रजः ।
पादावासाद्य जग्राह वसिष्ठस्य च राघवः ॥ २.१०३.२७ ॥
As the distressed mother spoke thus, Rāghava, the elder brother of Bharata, went to Vasiṣṭha and took hold of his feet.
2.103.28
पुरोहितस्याग्निसमस्य वै तदा बृहस्पतेरिन्द्र इवामराधिपः ।
प्रगृह्य पादौ सुसमृद्धतेजसः सहैव तेनोपविवेश राघवः ॥ २.१०३.२८ ॥
Then, as Indra, lord of the immortals, goes to Bṛhaspati, Rāghava took hold of the feet of the chaplain, who was like fire and of greatly radiant splendour, and sat down together with him.
2.103.29
ततो जघन्यं सहितैः समन्त्रिभिः पुरप्रधानैश्च सहैव सैनिकैः ।
जनेन धर्मज्ञतमेन धर्मवानुपोपविष्टो भरतस्तदाग्रजम् ॥ २.१०३.२९ ॥
Then Bharata, the righteous one, sat near his elder brother at the rear, together with the ministers, the chief men of the city, the soldiers, and the people most learned in dharma.
2.103.30
उपोपविष्टस्तु तथा स वीर्यवांस्तपस्विवेषेण समीक्ष्य राघवम् ।
श्रिया ज्वलन्तं भरतः कृताञ्जलिर्यथा महेन्द्रः प्रयतः प्रजापतिम् ॥ २.१०३.३० ॥
Thus seated nearby, the mighty Bharata, beholding Rāghava blazing with splendour in the garb of an ascetic, stood with folded hands, as great Indra reverently before Prajāpati.
2.103.31
किमेष वाक्यं भरतो ऽद्य राघवं प्रणम्य सत्कृत्य च साधु वक्ष्यति ।
इतीव तस्यार्यजनस्य तत्त्वतो बभूव कौतूहलमुत्तमं तदा ॥ २.१०३.३१ ॥
Will Bharata today bow to Rāghava, honor him, and speak fitting words? Thus, in truth, great eagerness then arose among the noble people there.
2.103.32
स राघवः सत्यधृतिश्च लक्ष्मणो महानुभवो भरतश्च धार्मिकः ।
वृताः सुहृद्भिश्च विरेजुरध्वरे यथा सदस्यैः सहितास्त्रयो ऽग्नयः ॥ २.१०३.३२ ॥
Rāghava, Lakṣmaṇa steadfast in truth, and the great and righteous Bharata, surrounded by their well-wishers, shone at the sacrifice like three fires together with the sacrificial officiants.