Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa · Sarga 5.26
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5.26.1
प्रसक्ताश्रुमुखी त्वेवं ब्रुवती जनकात्मजा।
अधोगतमुखी बाला विलप्तुमुपचक्रमे ॥ ५.२६.१ ॥
Thus speaking, Sītā, daughter of Janaka, her face streaming with tears and turned downward, the young woman began to lament.
5.26.2
उन्मत्तेव प्रमत्तेव भ्रान्तचित्तेव शोचती।
उपावृत्ता किशोरीव विचेष्टन्ती महीतले ॥ ५.२६.२ ॥
Grieving as though maddened, as though distracted, as though her mind were confused, she writhed upon the ground like a young doe.
5.26.3
राघवस्य प्रमत्तस्य रक्षसा कामरूपिणा।
रावणेन प्रमथ्याहमानीता क्रोशती बलात् ॥ ५.२६.३ ॥
While Rāghava was heedless, the demon Rāvaṇa, who assumes whatever form he wills, seized me by force and carried me away while I cried out.
5.26.4
राक्षसीवशमापन्ना भर्त्स्यमाना च दारुणम्।
चिन्तयन्ती सुदुःखार्ता नाहं जीवितुमुत्सहे ॥ ५.२६.४ ॥
Fallen under the power of the rākṣasīs, cruelly threatened, afflicted with great sorrow, brooding, I have no strength to go on living.
5.26.5
नहि मे जीवितेनार्थो नैवार्थैर्न च भूषणैः।
वसन्त्या राक्षसीमध्ये विना रामं महारथम् ॥ ५.२६.५ ॥
Dwelling among the rākṣasīs, without Rāma, the great charioteer, life holds no purpose for me, nor wealth, nor ornaments.
5.26.6
अश्मसारमिदं नूनमथवाप्यजरामरम्।
हृदयं मम येनेदं न दुःखेन विशीर्यते ॥ ५.२६.६ ॥
Surely this heart of mine is made of the essence of stone, or else it is ageless and undying, since it does not break apart in grief.
5.26.7
धिङ्मामनार्यामसतीं याहं तेन विना कृता।
मुहूर्तमपि जीवामि जीवितं पापजीविका ॥ ५.२६.७ ॥
Shame upon me, ignoble and unchaste, who, separated from him, still live even for a moment; this is a sinful life.
5.26.8
चरणेनापि सव्येन न स्पृशेयं निशाचरम्।
रावणं किं पुनरहं कामयेयं विगर्हितम् ॥ ५.२६.८ ॥
I would not touch Rāvaṇa, that night-wanderer, even with my left foot; how then could I desire that despised one?
5.26.9
प्रत्याख्यानं न जानाति नात्मानं नात्मनः कुलम्।
यो नृशंसस्वभावेन मां प्रार्थयितुमिच्छति ॥ ५.२६.९ ॥
He who, by his cruel nature, wishes to beg me does not know refusal, nor himself, nor his own lineage.
5.26.10
छिन्ना भिन्ना प्रभिन्ना वा दीप्ता वाग्नौ प्रदीपिता।
रावणं नोपतिष्ठेयं किं प्रलापेन वश्चिरम् ॥ ५.२६.१० ॥
Though I be cut, torn, broken apart, or burned in fire, I shall never go to Rāvaṇa; why have I been deceived so long by this lamentation?
5.26.11
ख्यातः प्राज्ञः कृतज्ञश्च सानुक्रोशश्च राघवः।
सद्वृत्तो निरनुक्रोशः शङ्के मद्भाग्यसंक्षयात् ॥ ५.२६.११ ॥
Rāghava is renowned, wise, grateful, compassionate and of good conduct; yet I suspect that, from the exhaustion of my fortune, he has now become without compassion.
5.26.12
राक्षसानां जनस्थाने सहस्राणि चतुर्दश।
एकेनैव निरस्तानि स मां किं नाभिपद्यते ॥ ५.२६.१२ ॥
In Janasthāna, fourteen thousand rākṣasas were destroyed by one man alone; why does he not come to me?
5.26.13
निरुद्धा रावणेनाहमल्पवीर्येण रक्षसा।
समर्थः खलु मे भर्ता रावणं हन्तुमाहवे ॥ ५.२६.१३ ॥
Held captive by Rāvaṇa, that weak-powered demon; yet my lord is indeed able to slay Rāvaṇa in battle.
5.26.14
विराधो दण्डकारण्ये येन राक्षसपुंगवः।
रणे रामेण निहतः स मां किं नाभिपद्यते ॥ ५.२६.१४ ॥
In the Daṇḍaka forest Rāma slew Virādha, foremost of demons, in battle. Why does he not come to me?
5.26.15
कामं मध्ये समुद्रस्य लङ्केयं दुष्प्रधर्षणा।
न तु राघवबाणानां गतिरोधो भविष्यति ॥ ५.२६.१५ ॥
Laṅkā indeed lies in the midst of the ocean and is hard to assail; yet it will not obstruct the course of Rāghava's arrows.
5.26.16
किं नु तत् कारणं येन रामो दृढपराक्रमः।
रक्षसापहृतां भार्यामिष्टां यो नाभिपद्यते ॥ ५.२६.१६ ॥
What, then, is the reason that Rāma of firm valor does not come to his beloved wife, stolen away by the demon?
5.26.17
इहस्थां मां न जानीते शङ्के लक्ष्मणपूर्वजः।
जानन्नपि स तेजस्वी धर्षणां मर्षयिष्यति ॥ ५.२६.१७ ॥
I suspect that Lakṣmaṇa's elder brother does not know that I am here; and even if he knows, that radiant one will endure this insult.
5.26.18
हृतेति मां योऽधिगत्य राघवाय निवेदयेत्।
गृध्रराजोऽपि स रणे रावणेन निपातितः ॥ ५.२६.१८ ॥
Even the king of vultures, who would have found me and reported to Rāghava, 'She has been taken,' was struck down in battle by Rāvaṇa.
5.26.19
कृतं कर्म महत् तेन मां तथाभ्यवपद्यता।
तिष्ठता रावणवधे वृद्धेनापि जटायुषा ॥ ५.२६.१९ ॥
Though aged, standing firm in the slaying of Rāvaṇa, Jaṭāyu performed a great deed by coming to my aid.
5.26.20
यदि मामिह जानीयाद् वर्तमानां हि राघवः।
अद्य बाणैरभिक्रुद्धः कुर्याल्लोकमराक्षसम् ॥ ५.२६.२० ॥
If Rāghava should learn that I am alive here, then today, greatly enraged, he would make the world free of rākṣasas with his arrows.
5.26.21
निर्दहेच्च पुरीं लङ्कां निर्दहेच्च महोदधिम्।
रावणस्य च नीचस्य कीर्तिं नाम च नाशयेत् ॥ ५.२६.२१ ॥
He would burn the city of Laṅkā, would burn the great ocean too, and would destroy the glory and the very name of the base Rāvaṇa.
5.26.22
ततो निहतनाथानां राक्षसीनां गृहे गृहे।
यथाहमेवं रुदती तथा भूयो न संशयः ॥ ५.२६.२२ ॥
Then the rākṣasa women, their husbands slain, in house after house will weep again just as I am weeping now; there is no doubt of it.
5.26.23
अन्विष्य रक्षसां लङ्कां कुर्याद् रामः सलक्ष्मणः।
नहि ताभ्यां रिपुर्दृष्टो मुहूर्तमपि जीवति ॥ ५.२६.२३ ॥
Searching out the rākṣasas in Laṅkā, Rāma together with Lakṣmaṇa would make it free of them; no enemy seen by those two lives even a moment.
5.26.24
चिताधूमाकुलपथा गृध्रमण्डलमण्डिता।
अचिरेणैव कालेन श्मशानसदृशी भवेत् ॥ ५.२६.२४ ॥
That city, its paths clouded with the smoke of funeral pyres and adorned with flocks of vultures, will soon become like a cremation ground.
5.26.25
अचिरेणैव कालेन प्राप्स्याम्येनं मनोरथम्।
दुष्प्रस्थानोऽयमाभाति सर्वेषां वो विपर्ययः ॥ ५.२६.२५ ॥
Before long, in time, I shall attain this wish. But this ill-omened departure appears to you all as a reversal.
5.26.26
यादृशानि तु दृश्यन्ते लङ्कायामशुभानि तु।
अचिरेणैव कालेन भविष्यति हतप्रभा ॥ ५.२६.२६ ॥
Such inauspicious signs as are seen in Laṅkā — before long, in time, it will lose its splendour.
5.26.27
नूनं लङ्का हते पापे रावणे राक्षसाधिपे।
शोषमेष्यति दुर्धर्षा प्रमदा विधवा यथा ॥ ५.२६.२७ ॥
Surely, when the wicked lord of the rākṣasas Rāvaṇa is slain, this unassailable Laṅkā will wither like a widowed woman.
5.26.28
पुण्योत्सवसमृद्धा च नष्टभर्त्री सराक्षसा।
भविष्यति पुरी लङ्का नष्टभर्त्री यथांगना ॥ ५.२६.२८ ॥
Laṅkā, rich in sacred festivals, together with its rākṣasas, will become like a woman who has lost her husband.
5.26.29
नूनं राक्षसकन्यानां रुदतीनां गृहे गृहे।
श्रोष्यामि नचिरादेव दुःखार्तानामिह ध्वनिम् ॥ ५.२६.२९ ॥
Surely, before long I shall hear, here, the sound of the rākṣasa maidens weeping in house after house, afflicted with sorrow.
5.26.30
सान्धकारा हतद्योता हतराक्षसपुंगवा।
भविष्यति पुरी लङ्का निर्दग्धा रामसायकैः ॥ ५.२६.३० ॥
Dark, its light extinguished, its foremost rākṣasas slain, the city of Laṅkā will be burned by Rāma's arrows.
5.26.31
यदि नाम स शूरो मां रामो रक्तान्तलोचनः।
जानीयाद् वर्तमानां यां राक्षसस्य निवेशने ॥ ५.२६.३१ ॥
If that brave Rāma, with eyes reddened at the corners, were to learn that I am present in the rākṣasa's dwelling—
5.26.32
अनेन तु नृशंसेन रावणेनाधमेन मे।
समयो यस्तु निर्दिष्टस्तस्य कालोऽयमागतः ॥ ५.२६.३२ ॥
The appointed term that this cruel and base Rāvaṇa set for me has now arrived.
5.26.33
स च मे विहितो मृत्युरस्मिन् दुष्टेन वर्तते।
अकार्यं ये न जानन्ति नैर्ऋताः पापकारिणः ॥ ५.२६.३३ ॥
That death ordained for me is now coming through this wicked one; these pāpa-doing nairṛtas do not know what is not to be done.
5.26.34
अधर्मात् तु महोत्पातो भविष्यति हि साम्प्रतम्।
नैते धर्मं विजानन्ति राक्षसाः पिशिताशनाः ॥ ५.२६.३४ ॥
Through adharma a great calamity will surely come now; these flesh-eating rākṣasas do not know dharma.
5.26.35
ध्रुवं मां प्रातराशार्थं राक्षसः कल्पयिष्यति।
साहं कथं करिष्यामि तं विना प्रियदर्शनम् ॥ ५.२६.३५ ॥
Surely that rākṣasa will prepare me for his morning meal; how shall I act without that beloved-looking one?
5.26.36
रामं रक्तान्तनयनमपश्यन्ती सुदुःखिता।
क्षिप्रं वैवस्वतं देवं पश्येयं पतिना विना ॥ ५.२६.३६ ॥
Not seeing Rāma with eyes reddened at the corners, deeply grieved, I would soon see the god Vaivasvata (Yama) without my husband.
5.26.37
नाजानाज्जीवतीं रामः स मां भरतपूर्वजः।
जानन्तौ तु न कुर्यातां नोर्व्यां हि परिमार्गणम् ॥ ५.२६.३७ ॥
Rāma, the elder brother of Bharata, did not know that I am alive; had he known, he would surely have had a search made on the earth.
5.26.38
नूनं ममैव शोकेन स वीरो लक्ष्मणाग्रजः।
देवलोकमितो यातस्त्यक्त्वा देहं महीतले ॥ ५.२६.३८ ॥
Surely, by my grief alone, that hero, the elder brother of Lakṣmaṇa, has abandoned his body on the earth and gone from here to the world of the gods.
5.26.39
धन्या देवाः सगन्धर्वाः सिद्धाश्च परमर्षयः।
मम पश्यन्ति ये वीरं रामं राजीवलोचनम् ॥ ५.२६.३९ ॥
Blessed are the gods, the gandharvas, the siddhas and the great sages who see my hero, Rāma of the lotus eyes.
5.26.40
अथवा नहि तस्यार्थो धर्मकामस्य धीमतः।
मया रामस्य राजर्षेर्भार्यया परमात्मनः ॥ ५.२६.४० ॥
Or perhaps, for Rāma, that wise royal sage who loves dharma and is the supreme Self, there is no longer any purpose in me, his wife.
5.26.41
दृश्यमाने भवेत् प्रीतिः सौहृदं नास्त्यदृश्यतः।
नाशयन्ति कृतघ्नास्तु न रामो नाशयिष्यति ॥ ५.२६.४१ ॥
Affection arises only when one is seen; there is no friendship with one who is unseen. It is the ungrateful who destroy; Rāma will not destroy.
5.26.42
किं वा मय्यगुणाः केचित् किं वा भाग्यक्षयो हि मे।
या हि सीता वरार्हेण हीना रामेण भामिनी ॥ ५.२६.४२ ॥
Is there some fault in me, or has my fortune run out, that I, the lady Sītā, have been deprived of Rāma, who was worthy of the best of husbands?
5.26.43
श्रेयो मे जीवितान्मर्तुं विहीनाया महात्मना।
रामादक्लिष्टचारित्राच्छूराच्छत्रुनिबर्हणात् ॥ ५.२६.४३ ॥
It would be better for me to die than to live, bereft of the great-souled Rāma, who is of unblemished conduct, heroic, and a slayer of enemies.
5.26.44
अथवा न्यस्तशस्त्रौ तौ वने मूलफलाशनौ।
भ्रातरौ हि नरश्रेष्ठौ चरन्तौ वनगोचरौ ॥ ५.२६.४४ ॥
Or else those two brothers, the best of men, having laid down their weapons, are roaming the forest as wanderers, eating roots and fruits.
5.26.45
अथवा राक्षसेन्द्रेण रावणेन दुरात्मना।
छद्मना घातितौ शूरौ भ्रातरौ रामलक्ष्मणौ ॥ ५.२६.४५ ॥
Or else, by treachery, the wicked lord of the rākṣasas Rāvaṇa has had those heroic brothers, Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa, slain.
5.26.46
साहमेवंविधे काले मर्तुमिच्छामि सर्वतः।
न च मे विहितो मृत्युरस्मिन् दुःखेऽतिवर्तति ॥ ५.२६.४६ ॥
In such a situation I wish altogether to die, yet, though time passes in this sorrow, death has not been decreed for me.
5.26.47
धन्याः खलु महात्मानो मुनयः सत्यसम्मताः।
जितात्मानो महाभागा येषां न स्तः प्रियाप्रिये ॥ ५.२६.४७ ॥
Blessed indeed are those great-souled sages, esteemed for truth, self-controlled and greatly fortunate, for whom there is neither pleasant nor unpleasant.
5.26.48
प्रियान्न सम्भवेद् दुःखमप्रियादधिकं भवेत्।
ताभ्यां हि ते वियुज्यन्ते नमस्तेषां महात्मनाम् ॥ ५.२६.४८ ॥
Sorrow does not arise from the pleasant; from the unpleasant it grows even greater. Homage to those great-souled ones who are severed from both.
5.26.49
साहं त्यक्ता प्रियेणैव रामेण विदितात्मना।
प्राणांस्त्यक्ष्यामि पापस्य रावणस्य गता वशम् ॥ ५.२६.४९ ॥
Abandoned indeed by Rāma, my beloved, who knows his own self, I shall give up my life, having fallen into the power of the wicked Rāvaṇa.