बन्धु कहइ कटु सम्मत तोरें । तू छल बिनय करसि कर जोरें ॥
करु परितोष मोर संग्रामा । नाहिँ त छाडु कहाउब रामा ॥
bandhu kahai kaṭu sammata toreṃ | tū chala binaya karasi kara joreṃ ||
karu paritoṣa mora saṃgrāmā | nāhim̐ ta chāḍu kahāuba rāmā ||
Bala Kanda
Chapter 281: Parashurama challenges Shri Rama to battle
5 verses · 281 of 361
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Parashurama challenges Shri Rama to battle
Parashurama turns on Shri Rama. Your brother speaks bitterly with your consent, and you practise a false humility with folded hands. Satisfy me in battle, or give up calling yourself Rama. Enemy of Shiva, drop the deceit and fight, or I kill you along with your brother. Shri Rama bows his head and smiles within. The fault was Lakshmana's, yet the anger falls on me; sometimes even gentleness is a great fault, for all fear what is crooked, and Rahu does not swallow the crescent moon. Aloud he says: give up anger, lord of munis; here is my head before your axe. How can master and servant fight? The boy said something seeing your warrior dress; he is not to blame.
छल तजि करहि समर सिव-द्रोही । बन्धु सहित न त मारउँ तोही ॥
भृगुपति बकहिँ कुठार उठाये । मन मुसकाहिं राम सिर नाये ॥
chala taji karahi samara siva-drohī | bandhu sahita na ta māraum̐ tohī ||
bhṛgupati bakahim̐ kuṭhāra uṭhāye | mana musakāhiṃ rāma sira nāye ||
गुनहु लखन कर हम पर रोषू । कतहुँ सुधाइहु ते बड़ दोषू ॥
टेढ़ जानि सब बंदइ काहू । बक्र चन्द्रमहिँ ग्रसइ न राहू ॥
gunahu lakhana kara hama para roṣū | katahum̐ sudhāihu te bar̤a doṣū ||
ṭer̤ha jāni saba baṃdai kāhū | bakra candramahim̐ grasai na rāhū ||
राम कहेउ रिस तजिअ मुनीसा । कर कुठार आगें यह सीसा ॥
जेंहिं रिस जाइ करिय सोइ स्वामी । मोहि जानि आपन अनुगामी ॥
rāma kaheu risa tajia munīsā | kara kuṭhāra āgeṃ yaha sīsā ||
jeṃhiṃ risa jāi kariya soi svāmī | mohi jāni āpana anugāmī ||
प्रभुहि सेवकहि समर कस, तजहु विप्र-बर रोस ।
बेष बिलोकि कहेसि कछु, बालकहू नहिँ दोस ॥
prabhuhi sevakahi samara kasa, tajahu vipra-bara rosa |
beṣa biloki kahesi kachu, bālakahū nahim̐ dosa ||
Text source: Wikisource · Public domain (Tulsidas, 16th c.; 1925 edition, Wikisource PD-1996 tag); transcription CC BY-SA 4.0