पछिले पहर भूप नित जागा । आजु हमहि बड़ अचरज लागा ॥
जाहु सुमन्त्र जगावहु जाई । कीजिअ काज रजायसु पाई ॥
pachile pahara bhūpa nita jāgā | āju hamahi bar̤a acaraja lāgā ||
jāhu sumantra jagāvahu jāī | kījia kāja rajāyasu pāī ||
Ayodhya Kanda
Chapter 38: Sumantra finds the king stricken
5 verses · 38 of 326
What happens in this chapter
Sumantra finds the king stricken
The king always wakes in the last watch of night, they say; today we are amazed. Go, Sumantra, wake him, and we will act on his orders. Sumantra enters and finds the palace frightening, a lodging of calamity and grief. No one answers his questions. He goes to Kaikeyi's chamber, hails the king and sits with bowed head, and seeing his state he dries up. The king lies on the ground, pale and distraught, like a lotus torn from its root. Too afraid to ask, the minister hears Kaikeyi, full of ill and empty of good, speak: the king has not slept all night; the Lord of the world knows why. He has spent the dawn repeating Rama, Rama, and will not say what troubles him.
गए सुमन्त्र तब राउर माहीं । देखि भयावन जात डेराहीं ॥
धाइ खाइ जनु जाइ न हेरा । मानहुँ बिपति बिषाद बसेरा ॥
gae sumantra taba rāura māhīṃ | dekhi bhayāvana jāta ḍerāhīṃ ||
dhāi khāi janu jāi na herā | mānahum̐ bipati biṣāda baserā ||
पूछें कोउ न ऊतरु देई । गए जेंहिं भवन भूप कैकैई ॥
कहि जयजीव बैठ सिर नाई । देखि भूप गति गयउ सुखाई ॥
pūcheṃ kou na ūtaru deī | gae jeṃhiṃ bhavana bhūpa kaikaiī ||
kahi jayajīva baiṭha sira nāī | dekhi bhūpa gati gayau sukhāī ||
सोच बिकल बिबरन महि परेऊ । मानहुँ, कमल मूलु परिहरेऊ ॥
सचिव सभीत सकइ नहिं पूछी । बोली असुभ-भरी सुभ-छूछी ॥
soca bikala bibarana mahi pareū | mānahum̐, kamala mūlu parihareū ||
saciva sabhīta sakai nahiṃ pūchī | bolī asubha-bharī subha-chūchī ||
परी न राजहि नींद निसि, हेतु जान जगदीस ।
राम राम रटि भोरु किय, कहइ न मरमु महीस ॥
parī na rājahi nīṃda nisi, hetu jāna jagadīsa |
rāma rāma raṭi bhoru kiya, kahai na maramu mahīsa ||
Text source: Wikisource · Public domain (Tulsidas, 16th c.; 1925 edition, Wikisource PD-1996 tag); transcription CC BY-SA 4.0