कत सिख देइ हमहिँ कोउ माई । गाल करब केहि कर बल पाई ॥
रामहिँ छाड़ि कुसल केहि आजू । जेहि जनेस देइ जुबराजू ॥
kata sikha dei hamahim̐ kou māī | gāla karaba kehi kara bala pāī ||
rāmahim̐ chār̤i kusala kehi ājū | jehi janesa dei jubarājū ||
Ayodhya Kanda
Chapter 14: Manthara's first sting and Kaikeyi's rebuke
5 verses · 14 of 326
What happens in this chapter
Manthara's first sting and Kaikeyi's rebuke
Manthara answers bitterly: who would teach me, and on whose strength would I be bold? Who is well today but Rama, whom the king makes yuvaraja? Providence has turned kind to Kausalya, and her pride overflows. Go and see the splendour that upset me this morning. Your son is abroad, yet you have no care, thinking the king is in your power. You love sleep and a soft bed and do not see his deceitful cleverness. Knowing her mind is foul, the queen scolds: hold your tongue, home-breaker; say this again and I will have your tongue pulled out. Yet she smiles, remarking that the one-eyed, the lame and the hunchbacked are reckoned crooked, a woman more so, a maid most of all.
भयउ कौसिलहि बिधि अति दाहिन । देखत गरब रहत उर नाहिन ॥
देखेहु कस न जाइ सब सोभा । जो अवलोकि भोर मन छोभा ॥
bhayau kausilahi bidhi ati dāhina | dekhata garaba rahata ura nāhina ||
dekhehu kasa na jāi saba sobhā | jo avaloki bhora mana chobhā ||
पूत बिदेस न सोच तुम्हारें । जानति हहु बस नाह हमारें ॥
नींद बहुत प्रिय सेज तुराई । लखहु न भूप कपट चतुराई ॥
pūta bidesa na soca tumhāreṃ | jānati hahu basa nāha hamāreṃ ||
nīṃda bahuta priya seja turāī | lakhahu na bhūpa kapaṭa caturāī ||
सुनि प्रिय बचन मलिन मनु जानी । झुकी रानि अब रहु अरगानी ॥
पुनि अस कबहुँ कहसि घरफोरी । तब धरि जीभ कढ़ावउँ तोरी ॥
suni priya bacana malina manu jānī | jhukī rāni aba rahu aragānī ||
puni asa kabahum̐ kahasi gharaphorī | taba dhari jībha kar̤hāvaum̐ torī ||
काने खोरे कूबरे, कुटिल कुचाली जानि ।
तिय बिसेष पुनि चेरि कहि, भरत-मातु मुसुकानि ॥
kāne khore kūbare, kuṭila kucālī jāni |
tiya biseṣa puni ceri kahi, bharata-mātu musukāni ||
Text source: Wikisource · Public domain (Tulsidas, 16th c.; 1925 edition, Wikisource PD-1996 tag); transcription CC BY-SA 4.0