भरतहि देखि मातु उठि धाई । मुरछित अवनि परी झइँ आई ॥
देखत भरत बिकल भये भारी । परे चरन तन दसा बिसारी ॥
bharatahi dekhi mātu uṭhi dhāī | murachita avani parī jhaim̐ āī ||
dekhata bharata bikala bhaye bhārī | pare carana tana dasā bisārī ||
Ayodhya Kanda
Chapter 164: Bharata falls at Kaushalya's feet in grief
5 verses · 164 of 326
What happens in this chapter
Bharata falls at Kaushalya's feet in grief
The moment Kaushalya sees Bharata she rises and runs to him, then faints and falls to the ground. Bharata, shaken, drops at her feet, forgetting his own body. He asks her to show him his father, and where Sita and the two brothers Rama and Lakshmana have gone. Then he turns on his own birth: why was Kaikeyi born at all, and if born, why was she not barren? She bore him, a stain on the family, a vessel of disgrace who betrayed those he loved. His father is in heaven, Rama in the forest, and he alone is the cause of every wrong, a fire born in a bamboo grove. Hearing his soft words, Kaushalya steadies herself, lifts him and holds him to her heart, weeping.
मातु तात कहँ देहि देखाई । कहँ सिय-राम-लखन दोउ भाई ॥
कैकइ कत जनमी जग माँगा । जौं जनमि त भइ काहे न बाँझा ॥
mātu tāta kaham̐ dehi dekhāī | kaham̐ siya-rāma-lakhana dou bhāī ||
kaikai kata janamī jaga mām̐gā | jauṃ janami ta bhai kāhe na bām̐jhā ||
कुल-कलङ्क जेहिं जनमेउ मोही । अपजस-भाजन प्रिय-जन-द्रोही ॥
को तिभुवन मोहि सरिस अभागी । गति असि तोरि मातु जेहि लागी ॥
kula-kalaṅka jehiṃ janameu mohī | apajasa-bhājana priya-jana-drohī ||
ko tibhuvana mohi sarisa abhāgī | gati asi tori mātu jehi lāgī ||
पितु सुरपुर बन रघुबर-केतू । मैं केवल सब अनरथ हेतु ॥
धिग मोहि भयउँ बेनु-बन-आगी । दुसह दाह दुख दूषन भागी ॥
pitu surapura bana raghubara-ketū | maiṃ kevala saba anaratha hetu ||
dhiga mohi bhayaum̐ benu-bana-āgī | dusaha dāha dukha dūṣana bhāgī ||
मातु भरत के बचन मृदु, सुनि पुनि उठी सँभारि ।
लिये उठाइ लगाइ उर, लोचन मोचति बारि ॥
mātu bharata ke bacana mṛdu, suni puni uṭhī sam̐bhāri |
liye uṭhāi lagāi ura, locana mocati bāri ||
Text source: Wikisource · Public domain (Tulsidas, 16th c.; 1925 edition, Wikisource PD-1996 tag); transcription CC BY-SA 4.0