Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa · Sarga 2.23
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2.23.1
ध्यात्वा मध्यं जगामाशु सहसा दैन्यहर्षयोः ॥ २.२३.१ ॥
Having reflected, he quickly and suddenly passed into the middle state between grief and joy.
2.23.2
तदा तु बद्ध्वा भ्रुकुटीं भ्रुवोर्मध्ये नरर्षभः।
निशश्वास महासर्पो बिलस्थ इव रोषितः ॥ २.२३.२ ॥
Then the best of men, knitting his frown between his brows, sighed like a great serpent in its hole, enraged.
2.23.3
तस्य दुष्प्रतिवीक्ष्यं तद् भ्रुकुटीसहितं तदा।
बभौ क्रुद्धस्य सिंहस्य मुखस्य सदृशं मुखम् ॥ २.२३.३ ॥
His face, hard to look upon, with its frown, then shone like the face of an angry lion.
2.23.4
अग्रहस्तं विधुन्वंस्तु हस्ती हस्तमिवात्मनः।
तिर्यगूर्ध्वं शरीरे च पातयित्वा शिरोधराम् ॥ २.२३.४ ॥
Shaking his forward hand as an elephant shakes its trunk, and sideways and upward in his body, he stood with his neck lowered.
2.23.5
अग्राक्ष्णा वीक्षमाणस्तु तिर्यग्भ्रातरमब्रवीत्।
अस्थाने सम्भ्रमो यस्य जातो वै सुमहानयम् ॥ २.२३.५ ॥
Looking with the front eye, sideways, he said to his brother: "Whoever has been seized by such great agitation without cause—"
2.23.6
धर्मदोषप्रसङ्गेन लोकस्यानतिशङ्कया।
कथं ह्येतदसम्भ्रान्तस्त्वद्विधो वक्तुमर्हति ॥ २.२३.६ ॥
How, through the danger of a fault against dharma, and without fearing the world's censure, can one like you, undisturbed, speak thus?
2.23.7
यथा ह्येवमशौण्डीरं शौण्डीरः क्षत्रियर्षभः।
किं नाम कृपणं दैवमशक्तमभिशंससि ॥ २.२३.७ ॥
Just as one brave kṣatriya, the bull among heroes, might call a coward brave, why do you speak of this wretched, powerless fate?
2.23.8
पापयोस्ते कथं नाम तयोः शङ्का न विद्यते।
सन्ति धर्मोपधासक्ता धर्मात्मन् किं न बुध्यसे ॥ २.२३.८ ॥
How is there no doubt in you about those two wicked ones? They cling to dharma as a pretext. O soul of dharma, why do you not perceive this?
2.23.9
तयोः सुचरितं स्वार्थं शाठ्यात् परिजिहीर्षतोः।
यदि नैवं व्यवसितं स्याद्धि प्रागेव राघव।
तयोः प्रागेव दत्तश्च स्याद् वरः प्रकृतश्च सः ॥ २.२३.९ ॥
This is the 'good conduct' of those two who desire to seize their own aim through deceit. O Rāghava, had this not been decided beforehand, that boon would have been given to them earlier, and it would have been proper.
2.23.10
लोकविद्विष्टमारब्धं त्वदन्यस्याभिषेचनम्।
नोत्सहे सहितुं वीर तत्र मे क्षन्तुमर्हसि ॥ २.२३.१० ॥
O hero, I cannot bear this consecration, hated by the world, undertaken for anyone other than you; therefore you should forgive me.
2.23.11
येनैवमागता द्वैधं तव बुद्धिर्महामते।
सोऽपि धर्मो मम द्वेष्यो यत्प्रसङ्गाद् विमुह्यसि ॥ २.२३.११ ॥
O greatly wise one, that dharma too, by whose argument your intellect has fallen into such a doubt, is hateful to me.
2.23.12
कथं त्वं कर्मणा शक्तः कैकेयीवशवर्तिनः।
करिष्यसि पितुर्वाक्यमधर्मिष्ठं विगर्हितम् ॥ २.२३.१२ ॥
How, by deed, will you be able to carry out your father's command — most unrighteous and reprehensible — when he is under Kaikeyī's sway?
2.23.13
यदयं किल्बिषाद् भेदः कृतोऽप्येवं न गृह्यते।
जायते तत्र मे दुःखं धर्मसङ्गश्च गर्हितः ॥ २.२३.१३ ॥
That separation, made through wrongdoing, is not accepted even though it is so. From it arises grief in me, and this association with dharma is blameworthy.
2.23.14
तवायं धर्मसंयोगो लोकस्यास्य विगर्हितः।
मनसापि कथं कामं कुर्यात् त्वां कामवृत्तयोः।
तयोस्त्वहितयोर्नित्यं शत्र्वोः पित्रभिधानयोः ॥ २.२३.१४ ॥
This union of yours with dharma is blamed in this world. How could you, even in mind, desire those two, who act from desire, who are always unfriendly, the enemies who bear the name of father?
2.23.15
यद्यपि प्रतिपत्तिस्ते दैवी चापि तयोर्मतम्।
तथाप्युपेक्षणीयं ते न मे तदपि रोचते ॥ २.२३.१५ ॥
Even if your conduct and their opinion are divine, you must disregard it. That too does not please me.
2.23.16
विक्लवो वीर्यहीनो यः स दैवमनुवर्तते।
वीराः सम्भावितात्मानो न दैवं पर्युपासते ॥ २.२३.१६ ॥
He who is feeble and lacking valour follows fate. Heroes of proven spirit do not attend upon fate.
2.23.17
दैवं पुरुषकारेण यः समर्थः प्रबाधितुम्।
न दैवेन विपन्नार्थः पुरुषः सोऽवसीदति ॥ २.२३.१७ ॥
The man who is able to overcome fate by human effort, whose aims are thwarted by fate, does not sink down.
2.23.18
द्रक्ष्यन्ति त्वद्य दैवस्य पौरुषं पुरुषस्य च।
दैवमानुषयोरद्य व्यक्ता व्यक्तिर्भविष्यति ॥ २.२३.१८ ॥
Today people will see the manly power of fate and of man. Today the distinction between fate and human effort will become manifest.
2.23.19
अद्य मे पौरुषहतं दैवं द्रक्ष्यन्ति वै जनाः।
यैर्दैवादाहतं तेऽद्य दृष्टं राज्याभिषेचनम् ॥ २.२३.१९ ॥
Today people will see fate struck down by my effort; those struck by fate have today seen your consecration to kingship.
2.23.20
अत्यङ्कुशमिवोद्दामं गजं मदजलोद्धतम्।
प्रधावितमहं दैवं पौरुषेण निवर्तये ॥ २.२३.२० ॥
As an unrestrained elephant, maddened by its rut-fluid and beyond the goad, charges forward, so fate, as it rushes on, I will turn back by my own effort.
2.23.21
लोकपालाः समस्तास्ते नाद्य रामाभिषेचनम्।
न च कृत्स्नास्त्रयो लोका विहन्युः किं पुनः पिता ॥ २.२३.२१ ॥
All the guardians of the worlds cannot obstruct Rāma's consecration today, nor could all three worlds; how much less, then, his father.
2.23.22
यैर्विवासस्तवारण्ये मिथो राजन् समर्थितः।
अरण्ये ते विवत्स्यन्ति चतुर्दश समास्तथा ॥ २.२३.२२ ॥
O king, those by whom your exile in the forest was mutually arranged, they themselves will dwell in the forest for fourteen years.
2.23.23
अहं तदाशां धक्ष्यामि पितुस्तस्याश्च या तव।
अभिषेकविघातेन पुत्रराज्याय वर्तते ॥ २.२३.२३ ॥
Then I will burn away the hope that father has, and hers as well, which is directed toward the kingship of her son by obstructing your consecration.
2.23.24
मद्बलेन विरुद्धाय न स्याद् दैवबलं तथा।
प्रभविष्यति दुःखाय यथोग्रं पौरुषं मम ॥ २.२३.२४ ॥
For one who opposes my strength, the power of fate will not be there; my fierce effort will prevail to bring sorrow.
2.23.25
ऊर्ध्वं वर्षसहस्रान्ते प्रजापाल्यमनन्तरम्।
आर्यपुत्राः करिष्यन्ति वनवासं गते त्वयि ॥ २.२३.२५ ॥
After a thousand years, once you have gone into forest-exile, the noble sons will take up the protection of the people.
2.23.26
पूर्वराजर्षिवृत्त्या हि वनवासोऽभिधीयते।
प्रजा निक्षिप्य पुत्रेषु पुत्रवत् परिपालने ॥ २.२३.२६ ॥
By the custom of the royal sages of old, forest-exile is said to be leaving the people in the care of one's sons, to protect them as a father would his children.
2.23.27
स चेद् राजन्यनेकाग्रे राज्यविभ्रमशङ्कया।
नैवमिच्छसि धर्मात्मन् राज्यं राम त्वमात्मनि ॥ २.२३.२७ ॥
O king, if out of fear of confusion in the kingdom you do not single-mindedly wish it so, then, O Rāma, soul of dharma, you do not desire the kingdom for yourself.
2.23.28
प्रतिजाने च ते वीर मा भूवं वीरलोकभाक्।
राज्यं च तव रक्षेयमहं वेलेव सागरम् ॥ २.२३.२८ ॥
O hero, I promise you: if I do not guard your kingdom as the shore guards the sea, may I not share in the world of heroes.
2.23.29
मङ्गलैरभिषिञ्चस्व तत्र त्वं व्यापृतो भव।
अहमेको महीपालानलं वारयितुं बलात् ॥ २.२३.२९ ॥
Be anointed with auspicious rites, and remain occupied with that. I alone am enough to hold back the kings by force.
2.23.30
न शोभार्थाविमौ बाहू न धनुर्भूषणाय मे।
नासिराबन्धनार्थाय न शराः स्तम्भहेतवः ॥ २.२३.३० ॥
These two arms of mine are not for ornament, nor is my bow a decoration; the sword is not for binding at the waist, nor are my arrows mere props.
2.23.31
अमित्रमथनार्थाय सर्वमेतच्चतुष्टयम्।
न चाहं कामयेऽत्यर्थं यः स्याच्छत्रुर्मतो मम ॥ २.२३.३१ ॥
All these four are for crushing enemies; I do not greatly desire anything that would become my enemy.
2.23.32
असिना तीक्ष्णधारेण विद्युच्चलितवर्चसा।
प्रगृहीतेन वै शत्रुं वज्रिणं वा न कल्पये ॥ २.२३.३२ ॥
With a sharp-edged sword flashing like lightning in hand, I would count neither an enemy nor Indra, the wielder of the thunderbolt, as anything.
2.23.33
खड्गनिष्पेषनिष्पिष्टैर्गहना दुश्चरा च मे।
हस्त्यश्वरथिहस्तोरुशिरोभिर्भविता मही ॥ २.२३.३३ ॥
Crushed by the grinding of swords, this earth will become dense and hard to traverse, strewn with the heads, hands and thighs of elephants, horses and chariot-warriors.
2.23.34
खड्गधाराहता मेऽद्य दीप्यमाना इवाग्नयः।
पतिष्यन्ति द्विषो भूमौ मेघा इव सविद्युतः ॥ २.२३.३४ ॥
The enemies struck today by the edge of my sword will fall to the ground like blazing fires, like clouds streaked with lightning.
2.23.35
बद्धगोधाङ्गुलित्राणे प्रगृहीतशरासने।
कथं पुरुषमानी स्यात् पुरुषाणां मयि स्थिते ॥ २.२३.३५ ॥
With my fingers bound in lizard-skin guards and my bow firmly grasped, how could any man who thinks himself a man stand against me?
2.23.36
बहुभिश्चैकमत्यस्यन्नेकेन च बहूञ्जनान्।
विनियोक्ष्याम्यहं बाणान्नृवाजिगजमर्मसु ॥ २.२३.३६ ॥
Striking many with one and one with many, I will direct my arrows into the vital spots of men, horses and elephants.
2.23.37
अद्य मेऽस्त्रप्रभावस्य प्रभावः प्रभविष्यति।
राज्ञश्चाप्रभुतां कर्तुं प्रभुत्वं च तव प्रभो ॥ २.२३.३७ ॥
Today the power of my weapons will show its might, to strip the king of his authority and to establish your sovereignty, O lord.
2.23.38
अद्य चन्दनसारस्य केयूरामोक्षणस्य च।
वसूनां च विमोक्षस्य सुहृदां पालनस्य च ॥ २.२३.३८ ॥
Today the might of the sandalwood-strong bow, the loosing of armlets, the surrender of wealth, and the protection of friends will show their power.
2.23.39
अनुरूपाविमौ बाहू राम कर्म करिष्यतः।
अभिषेचनविघ्नस्य कर्तॄणां ते निवारणे ॥ २.२३.३९ ॥
O Rāma, these two arms will do their fitting work in stopping those who obstruct your consecration.
2.23.40
ब्रवीहि कोऽद्यैव मया वियुज्यतां
तवासुहृत् प्राणयशःसुहृज्जनैः।
यथा तवेयं वसुधा वशा भवेत्
तथैव मां शाधि तवास्मि किंकरः ॥ २.२३.४० ॥
Tell me, which of your enemies shall today be parted from life, fame and well-wishing people by me, so that this earth may be brought under your sway? Likewise, command me; I am your servant.
2.23.41
विमृज्य बाष्पं परिसान्त्व्य चासकृत्
स लक्ष्मणं राघववंशवर्धनः।
उवाच पित्रोर्वचने व्यवस्थितं
निबोध मामेष हि सौम्य सत्पथः ॥ २.२३.४१ ॥
Wiping away his tears and consoling him again and again, Rāma, increaser of the Rāghava line, spoke to Lakṣmaṇa, who was steadfast in his parents' word: "Understand, gentle one; this is indeed the good path."