जिअन मरन फल दसरथ पावा । अंड अनेक अमल जस छावा ॥
जियत राम-बिधु-बदन निहारा । राम-बिरह करि मरन सँवारा ॥
jiana marana phala dasaratha pāvā | aṃḍa aneka amala jasa chāvā ||
jiyata rāma-bidhu-badana nihārā | rāma-biraha kari marana sam̐vārā ||
Ayodhya Kanda
Chapter 156: Avadh mourns; Vasishtha consoles
5 verses · 156 of 326
What happens in this chapter
Avadh mourns; Vasishtha consoles
Dasharatha won the fruit of both living and dying; his pure fame spread through countless worlds. Living, he gazed on Shri Rama's moonlike face; dying of separation from Shri Rama, he made his death beautiful. The grief-stricken queens weep, praising his beauty, virtue, strength and splendour, lamenting and falling to the ground again and again. Servants and maids wail, and in every house the townsfolk cry: today the sun of the solar line has set, the bound of dharma, the store of virtue. All of them curse Kaikeyi, who has left the world without eyes. So the night passes in lament. At dawn the great sages arrive, and Vasishtha, speaking as the time required and recounting many accounts of old, dispels everyone's grief by the light of his own wisdom.
सोक बिकल सब रोवहिँ रानी । रूप सील बल तेज बखानी ॥
करहिँ बिलाप अनेक प्रकारा । परहिँ भूमितल बारहिँ बारा ॥
soka bikala saba rovahim̐ rānī | rūpa sīla bala teja bakhānī ||
karahim̐ bilāpa aneka prakārā | parahim̐ bhūmitala bārahim̐ bārā ||
बिलपहिँ बिकल दास अरु दासी । घर घर रुदन करहिं पुरबासी ॥
अँथयउ आजु भानुकुल-भानू । धरम-अवधि गुन-रूप-निधानू ॥
bilapahim̐ bikala dāsa aru dāsī | ghara ghara rudana karahiṃ purabāsī ||
am̐thayau āju bhānukula-bhānū | dharama-avadhi guna-rūpa-nidhānū ||
गारीं सकल कैकइहि देहीं । नयन बिहीन कीन्ह जग जेहीं ॥
एहि बिधि बिलपत रैनि बिहानी । आये सकल महामुनि ज्ञानी ॥
gārīṃ sakala kaikaihi dehīṃ | nayana bihīna kīnha jaga jehīṃ ||
ehi bidhi bilapata raini bihānī | āye sakala mahāmuni jñānī ||
तब बसिष्ठ मुनि समय सम, कहि अनेक इतिहास ।
सोक नेवारेउ, सबहि कर, निज विज्ञान प्रकास ॥
taba basiṣṭha muni samaya sama, kahi aneka itihāsa |
soka nevāreu, sabahi kara, nija vijñāna prakāsa ||
Text source: Wikisource · Public domain (Tulsidas, 16th c.; 1925 edition, Wikisource PD-1996 tag); transcription CC BY-SA 4.0