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Kaikeyi gives no answer; harsh with fury she glares at the women like a hungry tigress at deer. Seeing the sickness past cure, they leave her, calling her dull-witted and luckless. So the city laments and heaps curses on the wrongdoer, sighing like people in a raging fever: what hope of life is there without Rama? They suffer like fish when the water dries up. Amid this grief Shri Rama goes to his mother. His face is bright and his heart four times as eager, for the fear that the king might hold him back is gone. Like a young elephant freed from its tethering post, he finds the kingdom's bond loosed, and hearing of the forest his joy grows.
उतरु न देइ दुसह रिस रूखी । मृगिन्ह चितव जनु बाघिनि भूखी ॥
ब्याधि असाधि जानि तिन्ह त्यागी । चलीँ कहत मतिमन्द अभागी ॥
utaru na dei dusaha risa rūkhī | mṛginha citava janu bāghini bhūkhī ||
byādhi asādhi jāni tinha tyāgī | calīm̐ kahata matimanda abhāgī ||
राजु करत यह दैव बिगोई । कीन्हेसि अस जस करइ न कोई ॥
एहि बिधि बिलपहिँ पुर-नर-नारीं । देहिँ कुचालिहि कोटिक गारीं ॥
rāju karata yaha daiva bigoī | kīnhesi asa jasa karai na koī ||
ehi bidhi bilapahim̐ pura-nara-nārīṃ | dehim̐ kucālihi koṭika gārīṃ ||
जरहिँ विषम-जर लेहिँ उसासा । कवनि राम बिनु जीवन आसा ॥
बिपुल बियोग प्रजा अकुलानी । जनु जलचर गन सूखत पानी ॥
jarahim̐ viṣama-jara lehim̐ usāsā | kavani rāma binu jīvana āsā ||
bipula biyoga prajā akulānī | janu jalacara gana sūkhata pānī ||
अति विषाद-बस लोग लोगाई । गये मातु पहिँ राम गोसाँई ॥
मुख प्रसन्न चित-चौगुन चाऊ । मिटा सोच जनि राखै राऊ ॥
ati viṣāda-basa loga logāī | gaye mātu pahim̐ rāma gosām̐ī ||
mukha prasanna cita-cauguna cāū | miṭā soca jani rākhai rāū ||
नव गयन्द रघुबीर मनु, राज अलान समान ।
छूट जानि बन-गवनु सुनि, उर अनन्द अधिकान ॥
nava gayanda raghubīra manu, rāja alāna samāna |
chūṭa jāni bana-gavanu suni, ura ananda adhikāna ||
Text source: Wikisource · Public domain (Tulsidas, 16th c.; 1925 edition, Wikisource PD-1996 tag); transcription CC BY-SA 4.0
