भूपति-मरन पेम पनु राखी । जननी कुमति जगत सब साखी ॥
देखि न जाहिँ बिकल महतारी । जरहिं दुसह जर पुर-नर-नारी ॥
bhūpati-marana pema panu rākhī | jananī kumati jagata saba sākhī ||
dekhi na jāhim̐ bikala mahatārī | jarahiṃ dusaha jara pura-nara-nārī ||
Ayodhya Kanda
Chapter 262: Bharata lists the sorrows he caused
5 verses · 262 of 326
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Bharata lists the sorrows he caused
The king kept his vow of love by dying, and the whole world witnesses my mother's evil mind. The mothers' distress is unbearable to see. I am the root of all this ruin; hearing and knowing it, I have borne every pain. I heard Rama went to the forest barefoot in a hermit's dress. Shankara is witness, I lived on through that wound. Then I saw Guha's love, and still my heart, hard as a thunderbolt, did not break. Now I have come and seen it all with my own eyes; this dull life endures everything. Even snakes on the road shed their poison before Rama, Lakshmana and Sita; who but the son of one who hated them should fate make suffer so?
महीं सकल अनरथ कर मूला । सो सुनि समुझि सहिउँ सब सूला ॥
सुनि बन-गवन कीन्ह रघुनाथा । करि मुनि बेष लखन-सिय साथा ॥
mahīṃ sakala anaratha kara mūlā | so suni samujhi sahium̐ saba sūlā ||
suni bana-gavana kīnha raghunāthā | kari muni beṣa lakhana-siya sāthā ||
बिनु पानहिन्ह पयादेहि पाये । संकर साखि रहेउँ एहि घाये ॥
बहुरि निहारि निषाद सनेहू । कुलिस कठिन उर भयउ न बेहू ॥
binu pānahinha payādehi pāye | saṃkara sākhi raheum̐ ehi ghāye ||
bahuri nihāri niṣāda sanehū | kulisa kaṭhina ura bhayau na behū ||
अब सब आँखिन्ह देखेउं आई । जिअत जीव जड़ सबइ सहाई ॥
जिन्हहि निरखि मग साँपिनि बीछी । तजहिं विषम बिषु तामस तीछी ॥
aba saba ām̐khinha dekheuṃ āī | jiata jīva jar̤a sabai sahāī ||
jinhahi nirakhi maga sām̐pini bīchī | tajahiṃ viṣama biṣu tāmasa tīchī ||
तेइ रघुनन्दन-लखन-सिय, अनहित लागे जाहि ।
तासु तनय तजि दुसह दुख, दैउ सहावइ काहि ॥
tei raghunandana-lakhana-siya, anahita lāge jāhi |
tāsu tanaya taji dusaha dukha, daiu sahāvai kāhi ||
Text source: Wikisource · Public domain (Tulsidas, 16th c.; 1925 edition, Wikisource PD-1996 tag); transcription CC BY-SA 4.0