जी अस करउँ तदपि न बड़ाई । मुएहि बधें नहिँ कछु मनुसाई ॥
कौल कामबस-कृपिन बिमूढा । अति-दरिद्र अजसी अति-बूढा ॥
jī asa karaum̐ tadapi na bar̤āī | muehi badheṃ nahim̐ kachu manusāī ||
kaula kāmabasa-kṛpina bimūḍhā | ati-daridra ajasī ati-būḍhā ||
Lanka Kanda
Chapter 31: The fourteen who live as dead
6 verses · 31 of 121
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The fourteen who live as dead
Even then, says Angada, there would be no glory; killing the dead is no manliness. Fourteen live like corpses: the follower of the left-hand cult, the lustful, the miser, the utter fool, the very poor, the disgraced, the very old, the ever sick, the ever angry, one turned from Vishnu, the foe of Veda and saints, the body-pamperer, the slanderer and the mine of sin. So I spare you. Biting his lips, Ravana says: big words from a small mouth! Your master has no strength or wit. His father exiled him as worthless; he bears that grief, his wife's loss and fear of me. Rakshasas eat such men daily.
सदा-रोगबस सन्तत क्रोधी । बिष्नु-बिमुख श्रुति-सन्त-बिरोधी ॥
तनु-पोषक निन्दक अघ-खानी । जीवन सव-सम चौदह प्रानी ॥
sadā-rogabasa santata krodhī | biṣnu-bimukha śruti-santa-birodhī ||
tanu-poṣaka nindaka agha-khānī | jīvana sava-sama caudaha prānī ||
अस बिचारि खल बधउँ न तोही । अब जनि रिस उपजावसि मोही ॥
सुनि सकोप कह निसिचर-नाथा । अधर-दसन-दसि मीजत-हाथा ॥
asa bicāri khala badhaum̐ na tohī | aba jani risa upajāvasi mohī ||
suni sakopa kaha nisicara-nāthā | adhara-dasana-dasi mījata-hāthā ||
रे कपि अधम भरन अब चहसी । छोटे बदन बात बड़ि कहसी ॥
कटु-जल्पसि जड़-कपि बल-जाकें । बल प्रताप-बुधि-तेज न ताकें ॥
re kapi adhama bharana aba cahasī | choṭe badana bāta bar̤i kahasī ||
kaṭu-jalpasi jar̤a-kapi bala-jākeṃ | bala pratāpa-budhi-teja na tākeṃ ||
अगुन अमान जानि तेहि, दीन्ह पिता बनबास ।
सो दुख अरु जुबती बिरह, पुनि निसि दिन मम त्रास ॥
aguna amāna jāni tehi, dīnha pitā banabāsa |
so dukha aru jubatī biraha, puni nisi dina mama trāsa ||
जिन्ह के बल कर गर्ब तोहि, अइसे मनुज अनेक ।
खाहिँ निसाचर दिवस-निसि, मूढ़ समुझु तजि टेक ॥
jinha ke bala kara garba tohi, aise manuja aneka |
khāhim̐ nisācara divasa-nisi, mūr̤ha samujhu taji ṭeka ||
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