Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa · Sarga 5.19
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5.19.1
तस्मिन्नेव ततः काले राजपुत्री त्वनिन्दिता।
रूपयौवनसम्पन्नं भूषणोत्तमभूषितम् ॥ ५.१९.१ ॥
At that very time the blameless princess, endowed with beauty and youth, was adorned with the finest ornaments.
5.19.2
ततो दृष्ट्वैव वैदेही रावणं राक्षसाधिपम्।
प्रावेपत वरारोहा प्रवाते कदली यथा ॥ ५.१९.२ ॥
Then, seeing Rāvaṇa, lord of the rākṣasas, Vaidehī trembled like a plantain tree in the wind.
5.19.3
ऊरुभ्यामुदरं छाद्य बाहुभ्यां च पयोधरौ।
उपविष्टा विशालाक्षी रुदती वरवर्णिनी ॥ ५.१९.३ ॥
Seated, covering her belly with her thighs and her breasts with her arms, the wide-eyed, fair-complexioned lady was weeping.
5.19.4
दशग्रीवस्तु वैदेहीं रक्षितां राक्षसीगणैः।
ददर्श दीनां दुःखार्तां नावं सन्नामिवार्णवे ॥ ५.१९.४ ॥
Daśagrīva saw Vaidehī, guarded by bands of rākṣasa women, wretched and afflicted with sorrow, like a boat sunk in the ocean.
5.19.5
असंवृतायामासीनां धरण्यां संशितव्रताम्।
छिन्नां प्रपतितां भूमौ शाखामिव वनस्पतेः ॥ ५.१९.५ ॥
Seated on the bare ground, firm in her vow, she was like a branch cut from a tree and fallen to the earth.
5.19.6
मलमण्डनदिग्धांगीं मण्डनार्हाममण्डनाम्।
मृणाली पङ्कदिग्धेव विभाति न विभाति च ॥ ५.१९.६ ॥
With limbs smeared with dirt in place of adornment, deserving of ornaments yet unadorned, she sometimes shone and sometimes did not shine, like a lotus stalk smeared with mud.
5.19.7
समीपं राजसिंहस्य रामस्य विदितात्मनः।
संकल्पहयसंयुक्तैर्यान्तीमिव मनोरथैः ॥ ५.१९.७ ॥
As if, drawn by chariots of wishes yoked to horses of resolve, she were going near Rāma, the self-knowing lion among kings.
5.19.8
शुष्यन्तीं रुदतीमेकां ध्यानशोकपरायणाम्।
दुःखस्यान्तमपश्यन्तीं रामां राममनुव्रताम् ॥ ५.१९.८ ॥
Wasting away, weeping, alone, absorbed in meditation and sorrow, not seeing an end to grief — Sītā, devoted to Rāma.
5.19.9
चेष्टमानामथाविष्टां पन्नगेन्द्रवधूमिव।
धूप्यमानां ग्रहेणेव रोहिणीं धूमकेतुना ॥ ५.१९.९ ॥
Writhing as if seized, like the wife of the king of serpents, or like Rohiṇī afflicted by a comet, smoked by a planet.
5.19.10
वृत्तशीले कुले जातामाचारवति धार्मिके।
पुनः संस्कारमापन्नां जातामिव च दुष्कुले ॥ ५.१९.१० ॥
Born into a family of good conduct and character, righteous and virtuous, yet as if born into a lowly family and purified again.
5.19.11
सन्नामिव महाकीर्तिं श्रद्धामिव विमानिताम्।
प्रज्ञामिव परिक्षीणामाशां प्रतिहतामिव ॥ ५.१९.११ ॥
Like a great fame that has faded, like faith that has been dishonored, like wisdom that has wasted away, like hope that has been thwarted.
5.19.12
आयतीमिव विध्वस्तामाज्ञां प्रतिहतामिव।
दीप्तामिव दिशं काले पूजामपहतामिव ॥ ५.१९.१२ ॥
Like a future laid waste, like a command that has been thwarted, like a direction blazing in its season, like worship that has been taken away.
5.19.13
पौर्णमासीमिव निशां तमोग्रस्तेन्दुमण्डलाम्।
पद्मिनीमिव विध्वस्तां हतशूरां चमूमिव ॥ ५.१९.१३ ॥
She was like the full-moon night with its moon-disc seized by darkness, like a lotus pool ruined, like an army whose heroes are slain.
5.19.14
प्रभामिव तमोध्वस्तामुपक्षीणामिवापगाम्।
वेदीमिव परामृष्टां शान्तामग्निशिखामिव ॥ ५.१९.१४ ॥
She was like a light destroyed by darkness, like a river dwindled away, like an altar defiled by touch, like a flame of fire quenched.
5.19.15
उत्कृष्टपर्णकमलां वित्रासितविहंगमाम्।
हस्तिहस्तपरामृष्टामाकुलामिव पद्मिनीम् ॥ ५.१९.१५ ॥
She was like a lotus pool whose leaves and lotuses are torn up, whose birds are frightened, trampled by an elephant's trunk, and agitated.
5.19.16
पतिशोकातुरां शुष्कां नदीं विस्रावितामिव।
परया मृजया हीनां कृष्णपक्षे निशामिव ॥ ५.१९.१६ ॥
She was like a dried-up river drained of its flow, grief-stricken for her husband, and like a night of the dark fortnight bereft of supreme adornment.
5.19.17
सुकुमारीं सुजातांगीं रत्नगर्भगृहोचिताम्।
तप्यमानामिवोष्णेन मृणालीमचिरोद्धृताम् ॥ ५.१९.१७ ॥
She was tender, of beautiful limbs, fit for a jewel-filled chamber, like a lotus stalk scorched by heat, newly pulled up.
5.19.18
गृहीतामालितां स्तम्भे यूथपेन विनाकृताम्।
निःश्वसन्तीं सुदुःखार्तां गजराजवधूमिव ॥ ५.१९.१८ ॥
She was like the wife of a royal elephant, seized and tied to a pillar, separated from the herd-leader, sighing, sorely distressed.
5.19.19
एकया दीर्घया वेण्या शोभमानामयत्नतः।
नीलया नीरदापाये वनराज्या महीमिव ॥ ५.१९.१९ ॥
Though she made no effort, she shone with a single long braid, like the earth with its dark-blue rows of forest trees when the rain clouds have passed.
5.19.20
उपवासेन शोकेन ध्यानेन च भयेन च।
परिक्षीणां कृशां दीनामल्पाहारां तपोधनाम् ॥ ५.१९.२० ॥
Wasted, thin and wretched through fasting, grief, meditation and fear, eating little, her wealth was austerity.
5.19.21
आयाचमानां दुःखार्तां प्राञ्जलिं देवतामिव।
भावेन रघुमुख्यस्य दशग्रीवपराभवम् ॥ ५.१९.२१ ॥
Afflicted with sorrow, imploring like a goddess with folded palms, absorbed in thought of the foremost of the Raghus, longing for the defeat of the ten-necked one.
5.19.22
समीक्षमाणां रुदतीमनिन्दितां
सुपक्ष्मताम्रायतशुक्ललोचनाम्।
अनुव्रतां राममतीव मैथिलीं
प्रलोभयामास वधाय रावणः ॥ ५.१९.२२ ॥
Glancing around and weeping, blameless, with finely lashed long eyes, red and white, utterly devoted to Rāma, the Maithilī was enticed by Rāvaṇa, for his own destruction.