सुनहु प्रान-प्रिय भावत जी का । देहु एक बर भरतहि टीका ॥
माँगउँ दूसर बर कर जोरी । पुरवहु नाथ मनोरथ मोरी ॥
sunahu prāna-priya bhāvata jī kā | dehu eka bara bharatahi ṭīkā ||
mām̐gaum̐ dūsara bara kara jorī | puravahu nātha manoratha morī ||
Ayodhya Kanda
Chapter 29: Kaikeyi asks: Bharata crowned, Rama to the forest
6 verses · 29 of 326
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Kaikeyi asks: Bharata crowned, Rama to the forest
Hear, beloved, what pleases my heart, says Kaikeyi. Grant one boon: the tilak for Bharata. With joined hands I ask the second: let Rama live fourteen years in the forest in an ascetic's dress, wholly detached. At these soft words the king's heart sinks like the chakava's at moonlight. Stunned and speechless, like a quail under a hawk, he turns pale as a palm struck by lightning. Hand on brow, eyes shut, he sits like grief embodied. My wish, flower of the wishing-tree, was uprooted by a she-elephant just as it fruited, he thinks. Kaikeyi has laid Ayodhya waste. I trusted a woman and am undone, like an ascetic ruined by ignorance at the moment of attainment.
तापस-बेष बिसेष उदासी । चौदह बरिस राम बन-बासी ॥
सुनि मृदु बचन भूप हियँ सोकू । ससि-कर छुअत बिकल जिमि कोकू ॥
tāpasa-beṣa biseṣa udāsī | caudaha barisa rāma bana-bāsī ||
suni mṛdu bacana bhūpa hiyam̐ sokū | sasi-kara chuata bikala jimi kokū ||
गयउ सहमि नहिँ कछु कहि आवा । जनु सचान बन झपटेउ लावा ॥
बिबरन भयउ निपट नरपालू । दामिनि हनेउ मनहुँ तरु तालू ॥
gayau sahami nahim̐ kachu kahi āvā | janu sacāna bana jhapaṭeu lāvā ||
bibarana bhayau nipaṭa narapālū | dāmini haneu manahum̐ taru tālū ||
माथे हाथ मूदि दोउ लोचन । तनु धरि सोच लाग जनु सोचन ॥
मोर मनोरथ सुरतरु-फूला । फरत करिनि जिमि हतेउ समूला ॥
māthe hātha mūdi dou locana | tanu dhari soca lāga janu socana ||
mora manoratha surataru-phūlā | pharata karini jimi hateu samūlā ||
अवध उजारि कीन्हि कैकेईं । दीन्हसि अचल बिपति के नेईं ॥
avadha ujāri kīnhi kaikeīṃ | dīnhasi acala bipati ke neīṃ ||
कवनें अवसर का भयउ, गयउँ नारि बिस्वास ।
जोग-सिद्धि-फल समय जिमि, जतिहि अबिद्या नास ॥
kavaneṃ avasara kā bhayau, gayaum̐ nāri bisvāsa |
joga-siddhi-phala samaya jimi, jatihi abidyā nāsa ||
Text source: Wikisource · Public domain (Tulsidas, 16th c.; 1925 edition, Wikisource PD-1996 tag); transcription CC BY-SA 4.0