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Hearing the devas, Sharada stands regretting: I am to be the frost-night upon a lotus grove. Seeing her, the devas plead again. Mother, no blame will touch you. Raghuraja is beyond grief and joy, and you know Rama's power. Beings reap pleasure and pain by their karma; go to Ayodhya for the good of the devas. They clasp her feet again and again until, reluctantly, she goes, thinking how mean the devas' minds are: high their dwelling, low their deeds, unable to bear another's good fortune. Yet weighing the work to come, she reflects that good poets will long for her. Gladly she enters Dasharatha's city like a harsh planetary period. Manthara, Kaikeyi's dull-witted maid, she makes a casket of ill fame, turns her mind, and departs.
सुनि सुर बिनय ठाढि पछिताती । भइउँ सरोज-बिपिन हिम-राती ॥
देखि देव पुनि कहहिँ निहोरी । मातु तोहि नहिँ थोरिउ खोरी ॥
suni sura binaya ṭhāḍhi pachitātī | bhaium̐ saroja-bipina hima-rātī ||
dekhi deva puni kahahim̐ nihorī | mātu tohi nahim̐ thoriu khorī ||
बिसमय हरष रहित रघुराऊ । तुम्ह जानहु सब राम प्रभाऊ ॥
जीव करम-बस सुख-दुख-भागी । जाइअ अवध देव-हित-लागी ॥
bisamaya haraṣa rahita raghurāū | tumha jānahu saba rāma prabhāū ||
jīva karama-basa sukha-dukha-bhāgī | jāia avadha deva-hita-lāgī ||
बार बार गहि चरन सँकोचौ । चली बिचारि बिबुध-मति-पोची ॥
ऊँच निवास नीचि करतूती । देखि न सकहिँ पराइ बिभूती ॥
bāra bāra gahi carana sam̐kocau | calī bicāri bibudha-mati-pocī ||
ūm̐ca nivāsa nīci karatūtī | dekhi na sakahim̐ parāi bibhūtī ||
आगिल काज बिचारि बहोरी । करहहिं चाह कुसल-कबि मोरी ॥
हरषि हृदयँ दसरथ-पुर आई । जनु ग्रह दसा दुसह दुखदाई ॥
āgila kāja bicāri bahorī | karahahiṃ cāha kusala-kabi morī ||
haraṣi hṛdayam̐ dasaratha-pura āī | janu graha dasā dusaha dukhadāī ||
नाम मन्थरा मन्द-मति, चेरी कैकेइ केरि ।
अजस पेटारी ताहि करि, गई गिरा मति फेरि ॥
nāma mantharā manda-mati, cerī kaikei keri |
ajasa peṭārī tāhi kari, gaī girā mati pheri ||
Text source: Wikisource · Public domain (Tulsidas, 16th c.; 1925 edition, Wikisource PD-1996 tag); transcription CC BY-SA 4.0
