4.Nagar neengu padalam
Chapter on going
away from city.
(Rama goes and informs Kausalya who wants to accompany
hi. Rama persuades her not to come so
that she can look after Dasaratha. Kausalya goes to Kaikeyi’s palace and sees the pitiable condition of Dasaratha.
Vasishta tries to dissuade Kaikeyi from
her determination and is not able to it. He tells Dasaratha he would persuade Rama not to go. Meanwhile Lakshmana gets very angry and wants
to wear a war on his father.
Rama pacifies him. They both go to meet Sumithra. She becomes sad and
tells Lakshmana to go with Rama and not return , if Rama does not return. The
servants of Kaikeyi bring wooden bark to
Rama to wears. He and Lakshmana wear it .Vasishta meets them there but is not
able to change mind of Rama. Rama and
Lakshmana go and meet Sita. She compels them to take her also with them .They
reluctantly agree . Meanwhile Dasaratha
tells the story of the curse that he
got from sage parents of a boy whom he killed unknowingly. The entire Ayodhya including sixty thousand wives of Dasaratha cry and decide to go to the forest along with Rama.
Though the
events are similar the sequence of events are different in Valmiki Ramayana. Kaikeyi tells Rama he has
to go on the same day which is not there
Kamba Ramayana. Vasishta does not try to
dissuade Rama there. Sumantra chastises Kaikeyi there,. Instead of 60000 queens
, in Valmiki Ramayana there are only 350. The bark dress is sent through
servants here but given in front of Dasaratha
by Kaikeyi,. When he gives one to Sita , Dasaratha as well as sage
Vasishta shout at her, In fact Dasaratha sents dress for 14 years to Sita.
The sorrow
felt by all described by Kambar is so
heart touching. Several places tears welled in my eyes.)
1606.That Rama who was
looking like a mountain covered
by cloud ,
Went in front of her whose mind was full of joy,
And who was
expecting him to come back
wearing a crown,
But saw him coming back
with out cowries being
rotated on both his sides and ,
Without the white
royal umbrella and
Was being dragged
by his fate which was marching
ahead of him,
And who was followed
by the God of Dharma , alone.
1607.”He was not wearing the crown and he was
not made wet by sacred waters,
What could be the reason?” doubted Kausalya
and when Rama
who was,
Wearing golden heroic anklets saluted her lotus like
feet , with a melting mind,
She blessed him
and asked him, “What happened to
the decision?
Is there any problem for you to wear that great crown?”
1608.As soon as
Kausalya asked that , Rama saluted her with folded hands,
“Your loving son
and my brother Bharata , who is of
faultless character,
Is going to
wear that very pure crown” he said.
1609.Kausalya who never differentiated in her love to the four brothers,
And loved them in a
faultless way said, “There
is a fault in that ,
Because the elder son should become king first but he is,
Three times more full of good characters than you ,
He is more good
than you. And he does not have
any faults.”
1610.After saying
that she further told “oh son
,
It is only proper that
the orders of the emperor are
implemented,
Without any change because not doing it is injustice and ,
That is your dharma
and so give the earth ,
To your brother
Bharata and live united with him.”
1611.When Rama who
has the nature of becoming happy
Had pure thoughts
and a faultless mind , heard the words of his mother ,
Looked at her and told , “there is an order from the emperor,
To make me walk
in the path of good , also.”
1612.And when Kausalya asked him, “what is the nature of
that order?”
He said, “He wanted
me to go the broad forest
for a period,
Of fourteen years
and live there with sages of great penance ,
And he
wanted me to come back only
after that.”
1613.Even before
those fire like words reached ,
Her ears decorated by hanging ear globes .
Kausalya
Started worrying , became feeble , was surprised ,
Became depressed , moaned and fell
down.
1614.”oh son, are the
words that “You protect this earth which you will rule”,
Is act of cheating
and this is as cruel as poison , Would
I be able to live now ,
And my soul would continue to be scared always.”
1615,She crushed one palm with the other , Using her tender hands,
Wearing bangles she
would grind her belly , Where
Rama lived,
Would control her
hot breath which gives out smoke and underwent great suffering .
1616.She would laugh saying, “the mercy shown by the emperor
on you is great”,
Seeing Rama and
saying , “when will you travel in the
long forest path” and then get up,
And she went on
suffering the pain of death at
that very instant.
1617.”What mistake did you commit towards
the emperor,
Who had very great love towards you ?” saying this
,
She became like
the people suffering due to great
poverty,
Due to mistakes
committed in their last
birth , getting hold of Gold,
And wailing greatly after losing it again.’
1618.She would say, “Why is it that , Dharma is not helping me?” and then
say,
“Oh Gods , what is the reason of this which would make me die
after losing the soul,
What can be further told about her? , she was struggling due to great sorrow,
Like a lactating
cow losing its feeding calf.
1619.Rama seeing
his mother who was wailing and
greatly suffering,
Lifted her with his hand
and told her “Oh lady of very great virtue,
Would you
make our emperor who tells nothing but the truth,
Tell a lie
by going against the words
that he has already told .”
1620.For consoling
Kausalya who had great virtue
and is the model,
For the earth
regarding virtue, Rama started telling her,
Very pretty , very truthful words, which could be told to his mother.
1621.”For making my great younger brother get the wealth of kingdom,,
And making my
father not tell a lie even if
he loses memory,
I am blessed with
a life in a forest and return
back from there,
And I think there is nothing better that I can do , by being born in earth.”
1622”.Even if the
sky , the earth , the oceans and ,
All other five
elements of the earth are
destroyed,
Can I disobey
the orders of Dasaratha. So do not worry.”
1623.Than Kausalya told,
“ofh Rama , if it is so ,
I am not telling you
not to go to the forest ,
As it is the order
of the king and if you are going,
Take me also ,
who is unable to carry this soul without dying.”
1624. He replied “Oh mother , without consoling the emperor,
Who has
drowned in the ocean of sorrow , is it
proper,
For you to make up your mind to accompany me to the forest.
Possibly you did not think properly about Dharma of a wife.”
1625.”After my
brother who holds the huge bow ,
Becomes the
king and after he firmly establishes himself,
When the king decides to leave this
life of luxury ,
And decides to do penance
, You can do penance with him.”
1626.”Oh Mother ,
why is your mind tottering and confused?
Do you not know
that even devas have risen after
doing penance?
After all how many more years are there? Does not those,
Fourteen years look like fourteen days to you?”
1627.”Earlier we
got by the grace of sage Viswamithra,
Several Mantras and later we got the blessing of marriage .
Were they wrong?
By going to the forest and ,
Doing all jobs as per their order , has been good , even today.”
1628.”Please see me
doing great service to great sages,
Get great knowledge
and unmatched wisdom from them,
Which are all faultless
, get the affection of Devas ,
And return to
this city safely.”
1629.He continued
“Do you not know that
matchless fame earned,
BY sons of Sagara
who dug this earth
surrounded ,
By the ocean infested by sharks , for carrying out ,
The order of their father and
sacrificing their souls.”
1630.”The Parasurama who held the axe , a weapon of Shiva
,
Who held a baby deer in his hands did not disobey his father,
But as per his orders
killed his own mother and is it
,
Proper for me not
to obey the orders of my father?”
1631.That Kausalya who wore the ornaments of truth,
After hearing the
several such words of consolation of
Rama,
Took them in to her mind
and understood clearly that,
Rama would definitely
go to the forest.
1632.She thought ,
Let this earth belong to Bharata,
And let Rama go from the city and do penance ,
In the great forest. But
I as per my duty ,
Would salute the king and protect him” and started to go to his palace.
1633.After saluting her
who was going and thinking that,
She was capable of looking after the body
of Dasaratha ,
And capable of consoling him in the
very great sorrow,
Rama reached the cloud like palace of his step
mother Sumithra.
1634. Kauslya who walked to the place of Dasaratha ,
Reached the palace of the daughter of the Kekaya king ,
And fell on the
earth where the king had fallen ,
Like a body
falling when the soul gets broken up.
1635.She said, “What
is the reason for this parting from those who do not part,
“Oh great one, is it proper for you?” “Is our present
position just?’
“What is the reason you are not thinking about it?”
“Of wealth of the poor”
, “Oh strength to the lonely me”,
“Has is been thought about or is
it fate?. “Oh king , oh king.”
1636.”Oh king of
kings You who ruled the entire earth , with the wheel of rule.
Which was equal
to the Sun who removes the darkness
everywhere ,
And after
matchlessly looking after the
kingdom without any problems,
Was it your intention
to destroy it at the period of
final deluge ,
In planning to
do this act of yours through your grace.”
1637”.Oh result of penance done by the earth surrounded
by ocean with waves,
Oh wealth which was greater than all wealth, Oh
ocean of art of learning,
Oh true meaning of
the just Vedas , Oh temple of mercy,
Oh king who possessed all the three worlds , Is it
proper .
For you to lie like this
, without asking me who is
tired
Due to sorrowing mind,
“Why are you crying? “
1638.”oh son Rama
your father is lying
affected by great sickness,
Which prevents him from thinking as well as knowing his
present state ,
And his body which normally shines like lightning is
lying motionless ,
And he is not able
see me whois crying and asking, “Why are you crying?”
I am not able to make
out the reason for this behavior
of his,
So please come to see
the present state of the king”,
she told.
1639-1640.When this wailing and
sound of crying reached the hall ,
Where the kings have assembled , the
lustrous sages and,
The kings holding the sword said among themselves “this is not proper, not proper”,
And looking at sage Vasishta asked him to find out the cause of this loud
crying,
That sage arrived
at palace of Kaikeyi and seeing the state of Dasaratha,
Who had a huge sword
, and wanting to know the reason for it and thinking in his
mind
“King Dasaratha is
not dead and it is not true that he will never die,
But now he has lost his consciousness and further
thought that,
“Kaikeyi the daughter
of great king of Kekaya is without any sorrow ,
But this Kausalya is crying non stop and it is extremely difficult ,
To understand about the various reactions of individuals to same circumstance.”
1641.After
thinking like this
Vasishta, thought that Kausalya who was
crying,
Due to sorrow
would not be able to tell the reason for her sorrow
Seeing Kaikeyi who came
and saluted him he asked her,
“Mother ,Please tell me the cause for the present state
of Dasaratha “
And then she told
him all the things which happened due to her.
1642. As soon as
she told , Vasishta lifted
,
That king with lustrous sword by his lotus like hand,
From the floor which was full of dust and said to him,
“Oh learned king ,
do not get depressed for ,
The self same Kaikeyi herself would give kingship to Rama,
Stop being sad and put an end to it.”
Like this Vasishta
told Dasaratha several times.
1643.After this
he added the cool attar ,
sprinkled it on,
A big fan with
a large handle and fanned
with sufficient speed ,
So that he regains his consciousness and
told him sweet words,
And when the ocean
of poison of boon to Kaikeyi slightly subsided ,
He saw the soul of
Dasaratha who went on repeating the name
of Rama.
1644.When he saw that Dasaratha was waking up from his faint ,
He said, “Sir ,
now you please remove the great sorrow
from yourself.
The leader of men
Rama only will rule this country and there
are,
No problems for that and Kaikeyi who asked this dishonourable
boon ,
Would herself give back the kingdom
to
Rama and if Rama,
Who is like a huge cloud
does not accept the kingdom,
“What for are we all living?”
1645.Dasaratha loking
at the sage who tried to console him told,
“ Of king of teachers
, Before , I who had a very
cruel fate ,
Which cannot be properly
estimated , die , make Rama
,
Wear the
crown and make him decide not to go the
forest,
And save me
by not getting
the bad fame for not keeping up
my word.”
1646. That sage
Vasishta seeing the face of the Kaikeyi of very cruel
deed said,
“Oh gold like lady
, by giving kingship to Rama
, soul to all other beings,
And life to your husband who was born in the clan of
Manu ,
Wear the pure
fame devoid of bad name as
ornament.”
1647.As soon
as sage Vasishta who had won over the very strong fate ,
And became great
by doing great penance
told like this ,
Kaikeyi sobbed
and wept and told , Suppose the emperor goes back on his word,
I would not like to live
in this great earth and for the
sake of my word,
Not becoming a lie
, I would die
today itself.”
1648.The sage told
Kaikeyi that her husband may die
,
That the world
would not accept her idea , that she will get bad name ,
That she would be
committing a sin but she did not change your decision,
That she would not understand him and that there was no
use by his telling all these,
And finally told her, “ What you are
contemplating is not as per
tradition.”
1649.”What are you telling without understanding that
the king is dying,
And without understanding the suffering he undergoes when
the soul tries to go away from the body.
You are talking
as if the fire and poison is
entering his wound in spite of being a lady.
Oh cruel lady ,
what relation have you got with this country and also,
The bad name
that is going to come to you is very
huge.”
1650.”Oh lady , who is the cruel fire that burns fame as well as name,
Even before Dasaratha
himself told Rama, “go to the
forest”,
You only told it
and that Rama would not stop going ,
In to the cruel path of
the very tall forest.
Are there people
who are as cruel as you and is there a
worse cruel deed.” He said.
1651.When that
faultless sage told like
this ,the king who was depressed by sorrow,
Looking at Kaikeyi who had poison on her
toungue said, “Oh great sinner ,
Did you order Rama who is like my soul to go to the forest and has he gone?”
1652.”Oh sinner , I now know your intentions , I with great love,
Kept on eating
the fruit of love from your mouth and so ,
You have already eaten completely my soul.
I did not marry you
with fire as the witness but ,
Separately chose
a god of death and married her.”
1653.Oh lady who
did the cruel conspiracy of sending
my Rama ,
Who is the only one
my open eyes has ever seen , to the cruel forest,
Oh lady who breaks me
who is not ashamed of bad name which is coming,
Oh sinner without redemption , What is the use of talking now ,
The auspicious thread which I tied on your neck on day of marriage,
Would now become
the auspicious thread that would
be tied on Bharata’s hand.
1654.After telling so many words like
this Dasaratha looking at
Kaikeyi,
Whose mind did not melt told “Oh sage , I am telling you today.
From now on she
is not my wife and I would
also not consider Bharata ,
Who is going to crown himself as king as my son
and he,
Would not be eligible to do death rites to me after my death.”
1655. Looking
at the great Kausalya, he asked” did not
that Rama ,
Who was prevented
from seeing me , take leave from you
also?”
And she seeing
the great sorrow of Dasaratha at the parting ,
Of his eye like Rama from him , decided
not to tell ,
Dasaratha
about preventing Rama from going ,
And like the
depressed Dasaratha , she also became
depressed.
1656.Kausalya understanding that it
is the act of her co-wife
,
And her husband
after giving boons to
Kaikeyi and ,
Becoming heartbroken due to it , she became greatly depressed,
And went on making
efforts to revive her husband and ,
Within herself she
said, “my son will roam in the forest “,
And she also became
sad that Dasaratha
would get ,
The bad fame that he
erred in his attachment to truth.
1657.She said, “oh great one , if your
greatness is harmed ,
By going against your great decision
taken ,
after accepting
the oath that cannot be gone
against,
And standing firmly
that you should not waver from
it
Due to the love
for your son which is beyond estimation,
The world would not accept it “ and like
him, she also became feebled.
1658.She said about her son, “he would not stop from going” and after
saying,
About her husband
“”he would not stop from dying”
and tottered and became
depressed,
She would not say to her son , “protect the soul of your father “
thinking that,
It would bring bad fame to the name
of her husband ,
And thus the swan like
Kausalya greatly sorrowed.
1659.That king
who wears the garland with bunches
of flowers,
Understanding from the words of Kausalya
that great and famous Rama,
Would not rule the earth
and would go to the forest ,
became further sad,
And said, “Oh my
friend , Oh friend who is my bad fate
and then again said,
“Oh my son,
please come before me .”
1660.”oh son ,with my eyes becoming watery and with soul
trying to go out,
I am in the process of dying and to me
who has only bad Karma,
Let the
Brahmins who are expert in
Vedas should use the
sacred waters,
Collected for
anointing you and crowning you before
the fire,
And use it instead for my final death ceremonies and after
that ,
You can go and reach
the great forest.”
1661 . “Oh valorous one
who defeated by your
ability in using the bow,
That Parasurama
who using his sharpened axe ,
which killed several times,
Great kings who possessed very great army and who
is the one,
Who is one equal to himself in strength
., Alas ,
I told you to wear the great crown but gave you a huge ball of matted hair.”
1662.”Oh Rama ,
who has a black body who has mind ,
eyes and hands ,
In very proper shape
, who wears patience as his ornament
,
Who broke the bow
of Shiva who burnt the three cities ,
Without thinking that
I am lonely and alone , you hated
me at this old age ,
And Ido not want
to live any further”, he said.
1663.”Oh Gold who outshines real gold, oh fame of fame ,
Oh Lad who has a strong bow which is like lustrous lightning ,
Oh truth of truth
, I am not so weak so as to allow you,
To go to the forest before me. I would reach the heavens
before that.”
1664.”I am one whose mind is ready to melt and a body
that is ready to die,
And I do not have a very strong mind and strong body like that of yours,
With the eyes which saw you enter the city along with the daughter
of Janaka,
Who is suitable to you , I would not like to see you going away from the city.”
1665.Oh Rama though the world has the strength to go away from you,
Though the devas
would not be sorrowing , Oh
king who rides a golden chariot,
Oh my support less
fame , giving birth to you, I know
about your greatness ,
What further can I tell, I will not live further, I will
not live.”
1666.”Your nature
of giving charity , made you give this Kosala
country,
Surrounded by
slushy mud and filled with water
and the hill of non diminishing
wealth ,
And also all other things to the thieving Kaikeyi and
gave you great fame ,
And that same
quality will now put an end
to my life.”
1667.”Oh gold like lad
, Are there any one similar to
you in this earth ,
Which is surrounded by the booming sea or the heavens which are high above ,
Or in the world of serpents , for when
He who had axe as a weapon ,
Came asking , “who is there who are strong?” , you
stood there without
weakening ,
Are there any one in this world to say to you “Do not do like that.”
1668.”Oh son ,
even after hearing that you have gone to the forest ,
If I am still alive
, to say I am cruel , I should not reach ,
The heavens today itself
,for it would not be proper for you,
To live in the forest
and my living here in the city
seeing this Kaikeyi.
1669.”Oh sir,
Goddess Lakshmi who after
doing very great penance ,
Reached your broad chest
with great difficulty and the goddess mother earth,
Would not remain alive
, if you go the forest and I who
am a sinner,
And one with bad karma
, if I live after parting from you
, I would be same as Kaikeyi.
1670.”Instead of
seeing you wearing very great
ornaments , sitting on a golden throne ,
Surrounded by white royal umbrellas , blessed with a very broad chest and ,
With goddess Lakshmi
sitting there , If I see you wearing the poor looking wooden bark ,
And skin of the deer
I would prefer the great act of going to heaven instead of that.”
1671.Like this
when the king was wailing
telling several things ,
Which did not have any connection , reached
a stage , where it looked like,
His soul would go away
that day itself and then that sage
,
Who covered himself with a thin skin said
, “oh king ,
I would try to stop Rama from going to forest ,
Along with the help
of all the people of this world.”
1672. As soon as the sage told, “I will prevent Rama from going to forest,”
Dasaratha thought
perhaps he can stop him
going ,
Slightly consoled
his soul which was crying alone ,
making soul to last longer ,
And thought “If
this pure one goes and tells him, he
may desist from going”,
That king who was similar to human form of Manu, lost
consciousness.
1673.Seeing that
“the king has forgotten both his soul
and mind “,
Kausalya getting
sorrowed thinking that the king is dead,
And wailed, “my son left
me even before and now you have
also left,
Oh my husband , Oh Lord
, Oh king of kings, Is this dharma.”
1674.”Oh truth of truth
, Oh king of all kings of the
world,
Without protecting you from losing your soul ,
if we fade ,
The entire world will
rotate due to sorrow . Oh king,
Our son may return along with the sage , so do not lose
hope” she said.
1675.After
she told like this , she caressed the body, feet and
face ,
With her lotus like
hand and seeing her ,
Dasaratha who had fainted,
And was not knowing anything slowly asked
her ,
“Would Rama holding
the huge great bow come back,
come back.”
1676.”Though the very deceiving Kaikeyi tried to take
away my life by her words,
Due to the bad advice of Kooni she wanted
to get kingship to her great son Bharata,
Apart from that
she wanted my great son Rama to
go to forest” , he said.
1677.”Oh Kausalya
, Rama who wears golden armlet over
his shoulders,
Would not leave the idea of going to the forest and my
great soul,
Will not stay here
without going . Please hear this , I have a had a curse,
From one great
sage which was given long ago” and then
the king,
Started telling
Kausalya all that happened at
that time.
1678.”I who was very much interested in hunting once went inside a cruel forest ,
And when I was searching for a pretty elephants and lions , I reached ,
A shore of a
stream where the black elephants come
to drink water ,
Along with my bow and arrow and stood hiding near its banks.
1679.”At that place there was a great sage with his wife
,
With both have them having lost their eyesight ,they,
Were living there
with the help of their pretty son
and,
When they were all engaged in penance .And not knowing
that the son,
Had come to take
water for them from the stream
, I shot a great arrow,
Which can kill
and being shot when the son
fell on mud he shouted .”
1680.”Thinking that it was elephant which had entered stream
which was drinking water,
And which was fighting
, that arrow went along the way of the sound and I
,
Who was not able to see it , hearing that sound knew that it was
not ,
The voice of an elephant
but that of human being , with
great sorrow reached that ghat.”
1681.Seeing that son of the sage rolling on earth with the arrow shot by me ,
With the pot rolling away
and made my body and bow as
useless ,
I fell down on him and cried “Oh sir , oh sir , Who
are you? And ,
When I became depressed
, That son who did not how to tell a lie
,said, “Please hear.”
1682.”Oh sir, who
has two shoulders resembling mountains, I came here ,
To collect water
for drinking for my blind
father and mother,
That job has now been spoiled, You shot arrow by mistake thinking I am an
elephant ,
This is my Karma
and so leave out all your worries and sorrow.”
1683.”You , who
are matchless please take cold water and give it to my father ,
Who desires to drink water and is sorrowing and then you inform them about my death,
And say, “your son would go to the heavens
and he saluted you before his death “
And after telling this
He who had praiseworthy good qualities
, received by devas, went to heaven.”
1684.”When I reached the
great sage , who was awaiting the arrival of
his son,
And gave the cold water
to him They said , “Oh son because
you did not come back,
For a long time we
were worried thinking about what happened to you. Oh son,
Who has shoulders with a scent of sandal , come near as we want to hug you.”
1685. “Oh sir , I
am a king who is living in the city of Ayodhya and I was searching ,
For an elephant of
dark black colour and in the
darkness , when your son,
Who was very truthful was collecting water in a pot
, without seeing him,
The arrow that
was with me went aiming at him.”
1686.”Hearing the wailing sound after he was hit by the arrow ,
Realizing it was not the sound of the elephant , I ran and met your son,
And when I asked him who he was after telling him all the happenings ,
With a greatly depressed mind, he informed his,
Salutations to you both
and stopped talking and ,
He was received
by the devas and reached the
heavens.”
1687.”Oh sir , do
not get angry with me saying I killed
your son with my arrow.
When your very pure
son was collecting water , except
for shooting an arrow.
Aimed at that sound thinking that it is an elephant , I
did not see him by my eyes.
Please pardon this mistake of mine “Saying this I saluted the divine feet of that
sage.
1688.As soon as they heard that, they fell down became depressed and rolled,
And said, “Today we have lost our eye” and both of them
got drowned in ocean of sorrow.
Thinking about their son they cried
“Son , son” and said “you have
broken our heart,
We would not stay in this world after knowing that you
are living in the heavens ,
We are coming now itself, now itself” they wailed
and cried.
1689. Seeing those
sages wailing like this in various ways , I saluted their divine feet,
And when I said , “I am your son from now on and what ever you want , I would do it for
you ,
So do not become weak like this and
Get rid of the sorrow “, That
sage told me,
“Oh sir with a
huge bow , please
hear what I have to say.”
1690.”Even after losing a son who was like the
eyeballs within our eyes ,
If due to the love of life , if we live on this earth for the sake of
eating food,
What will not people
of this world tell about us? So we will also die and go to heaven.
Oh king with a decorated horse , like us
, your son ,
Would go away from you
and then only you will reach the heaven.”
1691.”Oh king who
has a white royal umbrella whose luster
never fades ,
You said that you
have done a mistake and requested for our protection,
And due to your seeking protection from us , we have not given you a more harsher curse.
Today we have parted with our good son who understood us without our ordering,
And like us you
would also attain very great sorrow
and reach the broad skies”
Saying this they
both departed from earth and went to
heaven.
1692.
“Without any mental
depression since they said , “I would
have a sweet son”,
I came back to
this city with great joy and due to
the words of that sage
,
Without any change , Rama would go to the forest and I would lose my soul.”
1693.Vasishata who was
as tall as a mountain among
great sages with fame,
Went to the durbar hall of the king who had rut elephants
with pearl chain,
Where drums were being played and where Kings were
sitting with joy ,
Since the time for coronation of Rama
was nearing.
1694.When those kings having sword saw the face of that
sage,
They asked ”Oh clear minded one who is like
our father ,
Has some problem arisen for the
conduct of the crowning of Rama,
Because we are able to hear endless sound of crying with sorrow ,
Please tell us
the reason for that”.
1695.”Kaikeyi who is daughter of king of Kekaya , got two boons from Dasaratha,
And Dasaratha who
had ruled continuously without stop granted those boons to her,
Using one she made
him agree to send Rama who was like a
black cloud to forest,
Except for this there
is no major sorrow . This is what
, that has happened.”
1696.”Due to the order
of the king , the true son of
Kaikeyi would get,
The right of
protecting this earth , which is carried on its head by Adhisesha ,
And Rama with a
high and wide shoulders who is the
husband of the divine lady,
Would go and
live in the forest alone.”
1697. Even before
those words from sage Vasishta
who is the home of truth,
Reached their ears
, all those kings who had
very great love for Rama,
As well as Brahmins
and all others who have assembled at that place ,
And also all the ladies who had tied their breasts with
cloth fell down like Dasaratha.
1698.The bodies of people suffered
like the fire touching the wound
,
Which resulted
in hot breath and made them sit on earth with a shivering soul ,
And roll , and the hot
tears that flowed from their
eyes turned in to an ocean,
And the sound of loud crying that rose from all sides, reached the
sky.
1699.The great ornaments
and mangala suthra of ladies
fell down,
Their tied hair fell to their sides, the Yama like eyes
turned red,
Their feet became red
and due to torrential wind
blowing ,
They who were like climbing flower plants, shivered and fell down on
earth.
1700.Alas , alas that king whose pain never gets cured is one
without mercy,
And they said, “now
we will also stop following
Dharma ,
And they fell down like
a mara mara felled by great wind
,
On the earth
and wept as well as cried.
1701. By hearing the words that
Rama would go to the forest,
The parrots and
Naganavai birds started crying ,
The pet Cats
inside those great mansions also cried,
The small babies who could not recognize forms also cried,
And what can we tell about how the big people crying?
1702.The young ladies
who talk with sweet lisp which
are not connected to the toungue,
From their red mouth resembling the red
lily flowers showing their
teeth,
Which resemble the white jasmine flower buds, shed
tears like rain on their twin
breasts,
And the drops resembled the peals of a cut chain falling one
by one and cried.
1703. Similar to
the king Dasaratha , the cows
cried , their calves cried,
The flowers which have opened that same day
cried, the water birds cried,
The gardens that
drip honey cried, elephants cried,
And the war horses
which move with speed of wind
also cried.
1704.Are there
more cruel people in this world
than Kaikeyi ,
Who told her husband, “send him to the forest” and the very cruel Kooni,
When even the people who attained eternal wisdom thought ,
That Dasaratha would not live if
Rama goes away to the forest?
And all others
except these two lost their body
and attained emptiness.
1705.Would it be possible to count those
who were not able to wake up ,
From the sorrow
and have lost their wisdom
and all the streets,
Which were filled
with dust due to the running of
chariots,
Were made wet by
the tears of such people and ,
The only thing we
could not see was that
their mind did not break in to pieces.
1706.Some people said that “It is due to the sin committed
by the earth”,
Some other said that
“The sin committed by Goddess who
sits on lotus is much more”,
Some seeing the
wounded heart said , “this has
happened due to fate”,
And some said, “The sin committed by the eyes of people of earth is more than the ocean.”
1707.Some said, “Bharata would
not accept the kingship ‘
Some said, “Rama now will not return to the country”,
Some said ,”our
fate is very cruel “ and some of
them said,
“The victorious crown has
come like an evil planet “ and,
“Who are there in
this world who are more cruel than
us as we are not dying.”
1708.Some said,
“possibly our first king due to
his intense love ,
On the daughter of Kekaya has lost his wisdom completely”,
Some said, “Let us
go to forest along with husband
of Sita “,
And said, “if it is not possible , let us fall in
fire and then die”.
1709.The people of
that great city wiped the floor with their hands ,
And washed it with their
tears and saying “Kausalya will not be
able to live”,
Continuously left
hot long breath and further they said,
“Oh Lakshmana
would you bear with this and reached the state ,
Of those falling
in the burning fire where ghee is poured.”
1710.After
telling, “Lke the courtesan with red mouth who keep on drinking toddy,
This Kaikeyi without
any other reason , due to
the desire ,
Of making her son as the king , Was ready to do the sinful deed ,
Which is berated
by all “ they
with a sorrowing mind told,
“This Kaikeyi
does not have any love
towards the king.”
1711.”Did the emperor
want to do penance and go
away from this earth ,
Or did he want to
completely destroy all
the people in this world ,
Good, The act of
boon giving by Dasaratha seems to
be good.”
1712. “After giving all this earth which he
got to Kaikeyi,
And let us not go away from Rama who
was born as an elder son,
And made all
the world as his and live
in this city but ,
Let us go and live
with him , and if we all do so,
Even that forest
to which he goes would become a city.”
1713.”What is this type
of nature of the king of kings ?
After promising the earth to Rama who was not equal to him earlier.
And going in Kakeyi’s apartment and promising it to Bharata ,
Is this not the change
of his word and is it proper.”
1714.”The lady earth which was given to
Rama who holds,
The bow decorated by garland of victory
in the great hall,
Would be enjoyed by some one else and then, even if ,
Sita goes to the forest
and even if Goddess Lakshmi
stays here,
Would she
accept the son of the deceiving Kaikeyi ?”
1715”Like the
perennial lamp whose wick is not extended
,
And which is not
helped by adding ghee , and which has ,
A flame which wavers
due to wind , the lasses said,
“Are we going to part with the proper
graceful ,
Sight from the lotus like eye of Rama , Oh fate” and shivered.
1716.Lakshmana
hearing that , “ His step mother Kaikeyi , who has eyes,
Which are like a
spear which has not been sharpened , got
back,
The lustrous earth by a boon and gave my elder brother the forest”,
Rose in very
great anger and fury like the fire at deluge not lit by any one.
1717.With fire emanating
from the tip and sparks hitting
and burning .
The lock of hair falling on forehead and looking like the burning sun in the sky,
With the drops of sweat spreading all over his body , with the big tortured
breath coming out,
Lakshmana was seething
and resembled his old form of Adhi Sesha.
1718.”Did she wish to feed the sweet flesh meant for cub of lion
,
To the pup of the cruel eyed dog , That lady
seems to have powerful brain”
Saying this
Lakshmana clapped his anklet
clad hands and laughed loudly.
1719-1720 . With his sword tied
on the cloth over his waist so
that it could be seen,
Carrying his bow
with the huge quiver of his tied on his back,
Wearing an armour
made of Gold covering his huge
shoulders ,
Which make people say that Mount Meru is an anthill and also covering his chest,
Wearing the golden
anklet on his legs whose sound was
shaming the sea,
With the sound produced
by the string when he
was twanging it ,
Which was three
times louder than the thunder
Which occurs at the end of the world , after
drinking all the seven sea, he
came
1721. With
all the beings
with body and soul in the
world,
Except he himself and his elder brother getting scared and moving out,
Thinking
that the numerous elements which are spread
from earth to sky
Are falling down
on the earth , he
came.
1722.”For making
the burden of the earth lady ,
lighter, to kill all those ,
Who come to fight with me and cut their bodies in to pieces and fill up,
The entire world
and to make my unquestionable leader Rama ,
Wear the
victorious crown , I am standing
here ,
People who want
to prevent this , can do so.” He said.
1723. “Even if
all the people of heaven and earth, Vidhyadaras , Nagas,
And people of all important countries
and apart from them ,
The trinity of
Gods who look after the earth , create the earth and
Destroy the earth
came for help of the lady , I would not accept” , he said.
1724-1726.When the younger son of the emperor showing
the very great heat ,
Like the early morning sun which has
come to the centre of the
sky,
And was rotating
like the Mandhara mountain with
properly laid peaks ,
Which rotated in
the sea like the churner , in the middle
of Ayodhya ,
Rama who was with Sumithra who was
upset and sorrowing ,
Without
getting consoled due to the
very sorrowful act ,
Of that cruel
Kaikeyi who had undergone a cruel change ,
Hearing the
thunder like twang of
the storm like bow of his
very able brother ,
Who was his help,
which made the entire world
break in to pieces
Rama came
wearing shining ornaments made of pretty gold ,
Wearing a pearl
necklace over his chest,
Like a very black
cloud which using
the matchless rain drop of words
,
Which can put out the burning fire
burning upwards with smoke rising from it.
1727 Looking at Lakshmana who was shining with great anger like lightning,
Who had a golden body
, who had big hands which can
give like the storm,
He said, “My lord
, how is it that you who
never get angry against the devas ,
Have got readied your self for a war and are
holding a bow?”
1728. “I wanted to make you wear the crown before Kaikeyi
.
Who has a very
black mind , as she was trying to
destroy the truth,
And has
removed , your great
rightful kingship , and even
if the devas,
Try to prevent it
I would like to burn them like the fire that burns the cotton .”
1729.”When this very powerful bow is in my hand
, even the devas dare not prevent me,
And if they try to
prevent ,I would make them the aim of the bows in my hand
and burn them all,
And I would give you
all the seven worlds as well as
position of king of kings. Please accept.”
1730.When the younger brother told this Rama
asked him , “ Is it not your dharma ,
To go by the
right path in a way not to destroy the justice
which is suitable for the kings.
How come an anger which
goes against the normal practice came
in your mind ,
Which is barren?
What has happened to you
?”
1731.When the tall Rama told like this , Lakshmana smiled showing his teeth ,
And said, When the father told that
this broad Kosala country which spreads long ,
Is yours , you agreed to it and so if our enemies tell you
to go to forest,
Is it not proper
for me to get angry.:
1732. “After giving you the country in front of my eyes, if even Dasaratha,
Who has a cruel
streak himself says , “it is not for
you” and when those,
Who do not love you
are sending you away to the long
forest ,
Would I continue
to live carrying this body with
weakened five sense
organs?”
1733.”Oh Lakshmana
who holds the spear made of sun light
,
Which won over lightning as well as fire , When the victorious Dasaratha
,
Earlier told , “become the king” , without thinking that ,
The kingship would
make me commit many sinful
deeds
My trying to get
the kingship , is a
mistake on my part.
IN this where is the
mistake of Dasaratha who
destroyed the power of his enemies.”
Rama asked
1734.”Oh son , It
is not the mistake of the river , to be
without water,
And similarly
asking me to go to forest is not
the mistake of my father.
It is also the
mistake of the mind of Kaikeyi
cherished and nourished us.
It is not the the mistake of her son Bharata also , for it is
the mistake given by fate.
Why are you
getting angry for this without any
reason?”
1735. With a hot breath
like the air coming out of
fire of blacksmith,
Lakshmana asked ,
“ How can I make my boiling mind cool?
Please now see the power
of my bow which will win over,
The mind of Kaikeyi
who did harm to you and is this fate
,
Greater than
divine trinity and all the devas.”
1736.When Lakshmana told these well thought
out words , Rama looking at him told,
“ Oh brother ,
with the mouth that recited the Vedas
are you telling whatever comes to
you?
The words that you told just now are words
that cannot stand before
followers of Dharma,
How is it proper to get angry at our father
and mother who brought us
up”
1737,. That Lakshmana who was as angry as Shiva who wears the crescent told,
“You are my father
and matchless leader. No one
else except you is my mother ,
Oh Rama who learned to give to others , Today I will get you the kingship” and stopped
Rama.
1738. “Only she who got the boon has the right to get ,
The kingship of the world and Bharata will get it from my matchless father .
And the wealth
that I am going to earn now is
penance ,
And what
else can be better
than that”Rama asked.
1739.Rama who is
greatest among those with good character
further told,
“Would your anger subside only with a victory in war over
your brother Bharata ,
Who is going to be entrusted with
the rule of the world .
which would be ,
His dharma , or
defeating our matchless father who is
praised by wise people,
Or by achieving victory over our mother who has given
birth to us ?”
1740. Hearing the
words of
that expert of words
, Lakshmana told,
“I am hearing the words that were told by your
enemies though ,
I am carrying two
mountain like lazy shoulders which are having no work,
And I have taken birth in this world to uselessly carry the
quiver ,
As well as the great bow
and am greatly unlucky. What is use
of your anger at me?”
1741.Rama who has seen the end of the southern
language and also ,
One who have clearly
understood the end
of Sanskrit Sastras,
Looking at Lakshmana told
, “ Going against our father who talked
to us sweetly .
And was looking after
and protecting us all these
days ,
And ruling the
earth is not a proper thing for me to do,
But If you go
against my words , what good is going to come to you?
1742.Due to the
order of Rama who posseses the
knowledge of the four Vedas,
Which are like the four oceans , Lakshmana
left off his great anger ,
And also stopped
talking against his opinions , standing
in front of him ,
And like the sea
which never crosses its shore , he
attained peace.
1743.Rama who was
like Lord Vishnu ,
Who does not have beginning and end
hugged Lakshmana
Who was Lord Shiva
who
had the golden deer’s hide , went inside the home ,
Of Sumithra who
spoke only words of great honour.
1744.Sumithra
after seeing them who were her son as well as son,
Who were like her own eyes and who have both decided to go to forest,
And with a wounded heart
, not able find the other
shore of the sea,
Of her endless sorrow
fell on the ground and rolled,
1745.Rama supported her hands when he saw her getting
feeble and ,
With an aim of doing proper things to console
her mind ,
After taking out the
saw that can cut off the sorrow in her mind,
And told her , I
am not in a position to make the
emperor ,
Who has ability in use
of sword to be a liar and I would ,
Return quickly
after seeing the great forest surrounded by black clouds.”
1746.”Even if I go in to the forest or even to the
ocean or even if .
I go to the land of
devas which has greatness and great sound,
For me, I would
feel that I am in the city of Ayodhya,
Who are there anywhere who can trouble me?
And so do not become
weak in body , mind or feelings.”
1747.When they
both were consoling Sumithra who was suffering from sorrow,
Though they were not able to put out the fire of separation and were not able .
To quench the
killing pain of suffering lonely mind
,
Some ladies who
were having extremely thin waists ,
Brought the
bark cloths which was
sent by Kaikeyi ,
Who had the
bad name which will be there forever with her.
1748. Those
servant maids whose minds were shedding tears.
Like that of the
eye and who were liable to be greatly sad,
On seeing Rama who
had the black colour of the rainy cloud , told him,
“These are the bark cloths sent by Kaikeyi who even after seeing ,
The sorrow of others
, does not waver from her adamant
opinion .”
1749. When the ladies
with white teeth like the
luster of pearl,
Gave those
dresses , the younger brother of
Rama told,
“ All the material
sent by Kaikeyi who made him
loose his kingdom,
Are there
and here is my brother who is willing to wear them,
And here I am
who carries the bow
which is efficient in battle .
Who has been
born to see them, please show
them to me.”
1750.Then that
Lakshmana with love received the bark
cloths from those maids ,
And thinking , if only my mother tells me
“Oh Lakshmana leave your
sorrow
and you also go to
the forest,” that would be really great
and he saluted,
The feet of
Sumithra which shined like gold
and she also told some words.”
1751.”That forest where Rama goes is not a place where
you should not go ,
It is like the city of Ayodhya only and Rama who loves you lot ,
Is now onwards king
Dasaratha to you and our Sita who wears ,
Flowers in
her hair ,
is your mother who
even after Rama
Dared to
give the kingdom to Bharata and is going to the forest
Are still keeping their souls , and thinking like this go to the
forest,
Along with
Rama and your staying here further may
be a crime,.” She said.
1752,She further told , “Oh son
, you go behind him not for
moving with him ,
Like a brother , but be his
slave who does all his job as per his wish,
If he comes back
to this established city of
Ayodhya , come back with him .
And if he is not able to come back to Ayodhya, give up
your life before him.”
1753.Both of them saluted
and mother also wept like a cow,
Leaving both its
calves and becoming scared
for them,
And both those
matchless sons removed the thin cloth ,
That they were wearing
, wore the bark cloth and went away.
1754.When Lakshmana also wore bark
cloths like himself , Rama ,
Seeing the
activity of Lakshmana who wore garlands dripping with honey,
Said to him, “oh brother
who has the great fame of
praised by devas,
Without saying “no”
, please hear the good word that I am telling.”
1755.”Oh brother ,
all your mothers as well as the king ,
Are not like
earlier times and they are drowned in great sorrow,
They have parted with me
.Please do a great help to me ,
So that these people
who love with me do not
suffer sorrow.”
1756.When the best among all males Rama told like this,
Lakshmana with his
shoulders which are like pillars,
shivering.
Became scared and
started crying as the soul which had ,
Come in him is tring to go out and asked Rama,
“What is the
mistake that was done by me towards
you.”
1757. “Oh Rama
who holds the great bow with its string,
If water is there then fish and blue lily can be in it,
And if the earth is there , than all these things
are there,
And so please tell who should be there
so that ,
Me and Sita are
there in this place,”
1758.” Based on
the words of Kaikeyi who wears bangles of pure gold,
“Go to forest
“, the lady earth is shivering for her life and you have told,
These cruel words
possibly thinking that I am the son
of that king,
Who lives for
protecting the truth , What a cruel word
is it?”
1759.”Oh sir, Rama
these words are harsher and more
cruel ,
Than the words
which were an order to me to
leave out my anger ,
And be peaceful, when I
got angry at the words, “you
shall go to forest”.
What words can be more harsher than what you have told now?
1760.Oh Lord who
has the
powerful spear in the
scabbard which has been wiped by
ghee ,
Which has wiped away the kajal applied in the eyes
of wife of enemies,
Is going to the
forest leaving the kingdom which was established by our ancestors,
And which is yours by
law and also leaving everything
else including us, your duty?”
1761.When Lakshmana told like this , unable to
tell anything , Rama looked at,
The face of Lakshmana
who had mountain like shoulders and with ,
Tears coming non
stop from his lotus like eyes , which was ,
Falling down once in a while , stood there without moving.
1762.That Vasishta who has no sorrow and has done very great
penance ,
From the hall of the king
, with love towards Rama ,
reached ,
The palace of Sumithra and both the brothers saluted him ,
And that sage
also started getting in the ocean
of great sorrow.
1763.Vasishta who
could realize everything , saw their faces and minds
,
With his eye and saw the pretty look of the bark cloths
over their waist ,
And due to the raising great sorrow forgot himself, What can we say about it?
1764.He thought, “on the auspicious day when he was to
get crowned,
Due to the coming
of bad fate , he had to wear the bark of wood,
And if Lord
Brahma who decides on
aspect of the fate determination ,
Himself thinks about it
, the bad fate is something that cannot be removed.”
1765.”This aspect
of his which makes him go to the
forest , after wearing the bark,
Has not been made by Kaikeyi of very bad fate and it
is not a result of fate,
That comes to
Rama of very soft character and possibly later , it would be known,
“How this event
happened?” and “due to whose
thought process it happened?”
1766.Vasishta approached near Rama who carried a bow and had eyes like red lotus,
And said to him, “Oh sir, if you leave this palace and go by the way of huge mountains,
Dasaratha who has
huge very strong army would not live and will die.”
1767.Rama who came to Ayodhya after lying down
on a bed of serpent,
Said, “It is my duty
to completely and sincerely obey the order of Dasaratha,
And it is your duty
to console him and make him rid
of problems. It is also just.”
1768. Then Vasishta told him.” The king never told looking at you,
“ Go and reach
the boundary less forest .” but it is a fact that
,
Dasaratha who
possesses a spear which has been
greatly sharpened ,
Had told , Kaikeyi who talks words much harsher than
the arrows of enemies,
Without any
thought that, “I would give you a
boon.”That is all”.
1769.Rama who was born in this world to establish great Dharma,
Told, “My father Dasaratha told me that
he has agreed to give the two boons,
And my mother
Kaikeyi ordered me and I agreed to obey that order ,
And are you who has been a witness to all these , trying to stop me.”
1770.When Rama told like this , Vasishta
who was not able to reply
anything,
Made wet the earth by shedding tears from his long eyes,
and Rama ,
With mountain like shoulders saluted the sage and reached ,
The golden
door of the palace
of king Dasaratha.
1771. We would now describe to a smaller extent the sorrow of the mind ,
Attained by the people of the city who have seen Rama wearing,
Cloth made of bark and who was followed by his younger brother,
And with a
faultless joyful face resembling the lotus flower and have
understood his mind.
1772. Those ladies of Ayodhya who resembled the divine
ladies of heaven,
AS soon as they saw Rama wearing cloth made of bark , like
the bees
With closely formed new leaves and which were
tipsy with honey,
Patted
their very long eyes with their
own hands.
1773.Due to the
uncontrollable love , they did
not know themselves ,
And even before the father of the great one reached the heaven,
They went there first and
was it to cut their karma earned
in this birth,
Or was it to
ensure that their suffering souls due to parting never returns.
1774.Some fell down on earth , some stood by after moaning and weeping,
And Some were drowned in the tears that fell
continuously from their eyes ,
And some suffered
as if the curl of their hair has caught
fire and became sad.
1775.Those ladies whose speech was as sweet as sugarcane
, did not shed tears,
And feeling as if
they have lost their great wealth and
stood there,
With other people telling that they are all cruel people with heart like
steel,
And perhaps
this happened because they had
lost consciousness due to sorrow.
1776. The body broke for some , and the soul was not stable in side them,
And their souls
re entered the body heralding that
they would go out any time,
And their flower
like eyes due to the drying of
tears became wounds and shed blood.
1777.Some
valorous people who had two
elephant like hands ,
Due to their not wanting their heads , cut them off with sword,
And keeping it in
one hand . rolled it on the ground .
And with their small sharp swords destroyed their flower like
eyes.
1778.The ornaments of ladies fell down and spread everywhere ,
The gems embedded
in them came out , the waist
belt,
That they were
wearing got cut off like a flower
garland and fell down,
And their face which has become dim were defeated by the moon.
1779.The sixty thousand wives of Dasaratha who had faultless virtue ,
With tears which fell like rain , followed Rama the boy
and ,
Cried with open
mouths and wept like
the sea with tides.
1780.Those queens
who have not given birth to other sons except Rama,
Fell down on earth
like young peacocks , groups of
koels,
And swans which
have all lost their wings and greatly sorrowed.
1781.The nectar like words of those young queens , due
to,
Their deep breaths and limitless crying
were defeated by
The sound of
flute made of bamboo by
making holes ,
And the yaazh which was an instrument made of strings.
1782.When they
cried saying that “ from
now the forest only,
Is the home of
Rama “ and were pitying the fate of
their son,
The red
nectar like mouth
of those ladies were made further
red by crying,
Made that broad palace look like field of
thousands of open red lily
flowers.
1783. The river like
tears that they shed mixed
with layers of Kumkum,
Applied by them over their breasts became like slushy mud ,
And fell down pulling
their pearl garlands
Which got down
from the peak of their breasts,
And entered inside
their ocean like waist belts.
1784. The
face of the queens of Dasaratha who was king of Kosala with many
gardens,
Was like fully opened lotus flowers and was for the
first time seen by the sun god,
Proving that even for the king of gods of heaven , when sorrow comes, all bad events happen.
1785.Mothers ,
relations , those who depend on the royal family,
All those who
work and live in the palaces and very pretty women,
Became greatly pained as if they have fallen on burning
fire ,
And came near Rama
completely covering the door of
the palace.
1786.They all
cried and after crying slowly got
up and in all places,
They followed him like
an ocean, that Rama who had
shoulders like mountains ,
Not knowing how to console all of them
and without thinking ,
About preventing them from following him reached his home
.
1787.He who had gone
in a golden chariot where
bells have been tied,
For the purpose
of wearing the great and
famous crown,
Returned to
that street that was shining with wealth
,
Wearing a dress
of bark which indicated his going
away.
1788.Great sages , kings of land and all those who stay
,
In that faultless
city and also people of that
country,
Without knowing how to express their sorrow ,
And even the devas
became very sad ,
Not even wanting the good that would come in future.
1789.Some thought
that our soul is much stronger ,
Than our mind
which did not break on seeing ,
The pretty Rama of bad colour suffering ,
Being deceived
and suffering .
1790. “Is the
waiting by us expecting
that he would come back crowned,
Meant to see him
going in to the hot and
horrible forest ?
To be born in the country with ladies
with cruel deeds ,
Is a great
misfortune especially having an eye to see that cruelty.”
1791.Some said, “though being born as the eldest son , who
Got the entire earth to rule , the very strong Rama ,
Has started his
journey telling I would live in
forest along with tigers .
Should we keep quiet seeing him go? Should we cry?. This
love seems to be pretty.”
1792.Some seeing the kings who have lost their
strength and who remain ignorant,
Said. ‘Do not
engage in activities which would lead to destruction of Dharma,
And if you do so ,
you would be similar to Kaikeyi, who drove away
Rama,
Who won over Parasurama
who destroyed twenty one
generations of your families.”
1793.” The one who is going to assist Rama who has tied the
bark cloth,
Prettily over his waist and who is going with great sorrow is ,
One child among
the two sons of Queen Sumithra , is he
the only one,
Are there no more
people in this city who will help
him,” people asked.
1794.Some said
“let us break in to two pieces ,
our very hard heart,
Which is stronger
than the stone with an axe ,” , all those who run were running ,
And when the eyes shed tears which was flowing like a river ,
And it made the land slushy and
many people slipped and fell and became very sad,
1795.Some people removed
ornaments made of gold and gems
From their body,
and removed an threw away the
cloths,
Which were shining
like stars from their body
shining like lightning ,
And wore vary small tight dresses on their body.
1796.Those people who had
many children , even when a
son ,
Who does not have
few of the senses working dies , would take away their life ,
But here the king
has given a boon allowing his son
,
Who is eligible to kingship to go to the forest to protect truth,
It indicates the mind of the king is made of steel.
1797.The pretty women with inward bending thin waists and
Heavy breasts
which hurt the waist , going to one side,
Like a flowering creeper
, with great sorrow cried ,
Keeping their red
thin hands on their head,
1798. In the very
tall buildings which were like the tall peaks
Ladies standing on the
top floor resembling the slowly moving moon,
With their tears dropping on their tip of their breasts ,
Cooed like the
peacock which lives on mountain top.
1799.The tears
from the kajal applied eyes of the ladies who were
seeing Rama,
From the ventilators
of buildings where the smoke of Akil travels like cloud,
And who were having sweet voice but were sorrowing ,
Flowed like a stream
and cried telling the same words,
Like the parrot which was in cage near the window.
1800.The tears
flowing from the wide eyes of
ladies,
Who were seeing
Rama from the top floor of buildings,
Fell on the floor
of the building and made a depression there,
Which looked like
the pits made by ladies getting angry at the prince.
1801.Due to the continuing sorrow stealing the wisdom,
Mothers forgot about their children and the
children,
Were not aware of the places their mothers went
,
And due to that they shouted , cried and became tired due to broken mind.
1802.Because the great ladies who had
sweet voice like the well ripened,
Kamara fruit had
all reached the street , the white mansions ,
Became like the wilted
lotus flower as they have
been ,
Forsaken by Goddess Lakshmi with
honey filled scented hair.
1803. On one side
like the deer stuck by an arrow
which had,
Attained near to
the state of death which were struggling,
Some ladies with falling ornaments and with their hair,
Resembling the cloud
rolling over earth , went in
groups.
1804.The flags flying on buildings which were like
mountains ,
Stopped flying ,
the sound coming from drums became
muted,
The sound which was coming from many instruments ,
Lost their
sound and all over the earth , the dust ,
In the outside streets subsided due
to the rain
of tears.
1805.There was no
smoke from kitchens ,The scented akil
smoke,
Was not coming out of mansions , The parrots lost the milk cup,
And due to the
great sorrow of the very
tired mothers ,
Little babies lost the cradles on which bells were tied.
Little babies lost the cradles on which bells were tied.
1806.As if the life has gone out ,
the face lost its luster,
The rain drops stopped falling , the horses lost the pure water ways,
And even elephants in rut
, like the bee
drunk ,
With honey of the flower
stopped playing.
1807.Umbrellas stopped giving shade , the
hair of the ladies ,
With long eyes discontinued decoration by flower
,
The feet of
valorous men stopped wearing heroic anklets,
The flower arrows
of angry
god of love were not able to raise
passion,
And the andril (love) birds preferred to stay alone without mate .
1808.The sound from golden necklace stooped ,
The drums stopped
by their sound due to being tied by thick
strings,
The sound of the
cloud like chariots were
lost,
And the streets were like oceans which have left sound of water.
1809.There was no sound of marching in royal avenues , the sound of ,
The strings
of theYaazh as raised by the music traditions was also not heard ,
There was no sound coming from celebrations of the devas,
And except for the sound of crying no
other sound was heard.
1810.The ringing
sound from the pretty houses where the anklets ,
With pure sound
make continuous sound was not
being heard,
The tender waist
belts also stopped making sound
,
There was no sound
from birds , gardens did not have sound from birds,
There was no sound
of bees on flowers and the elephants did
not trumpet.
1811.The fields forgot water , the hands
of red mouthed ladies
were forgotten,
The fire of Yagnas
forgot the ghee ,
the great scholars
forgot the sound of Vedas.
1812.Those who
were dancing in huge groups cried,
Those who were singing
the seven nectar like notes
cried.
Those who developed love tiff with their lovers cried,
And those ladies who joined with their life like lovers cried.
1813.The elephants
did not extend their trunk in water ,
The horses did
not eat grass,
birds did not feed their young ones ,
The cows which have delivered did
not feed their calves,
And became
greatly depressed and tired.
1814. The sandal paste applied on the big shoulders of men,
Did not reach the tender coconut like breasts
of the ladies,
And flowers which decorated the hair
of the men,
Did not go and reach the
hairs of ladies which was empty.
1815.Big elephants
refused to wear the good
ornament of face mask,
The rows of houses
hated to wear the gem called Chooda
on their crests,
The pretty compound walls
made of gold hated to wear the pretty flags,
And the deer with
a soft walk hated to be with their
mates.
1816.Great Yogis
who saw pleasure and pain in same manner
suffered due to great sorrow,
And those who with a broken heart saw this is
a result of bad Karma with
sorrow,
What is there to
think and tell in this when some felt
that it is due to good fate?
1817.In that city of Ayodhya , Without exception all the good souls ,
Underwent great suffering and were wandering listlessly here and there,
With their natural beauty getting destroyed, with illness
of crying increasing,
With the faultless five senses getting greatly
disturbed ,
Looked like Dasaratha
who was leaving out his soul.
1818.When that city faded and joined together , the
servants ,
With disturbed mind
following him, Rama who
was the one soul,
To the
several beings who were travelling reached ,
The palace of Sita who had breasts covered with shining ornaments .
1819 With Brahmins
, great sages and kings who were crying and were coated with
dust ,
Coming near him
and sob , When Rama was coming dressed in bark cloths ,
That were not pretty
, Sita who was like a lady in
a picture , stood up greatly disturbed.
1820.Her mother in law hugged
the lady who stood up and was
bathed in new water
of stream,
Of tears coming out of her Kajal painted eyes and who was
crying ,
Though she with a
greatly disturbed mind did not know the reason for it,
With tears ebbing out of her eyes, she looking at Rama
She who had a shivering body similar
to the lightning asked,
“Oh Lord who wears
golden anklets , Is there any
sorrow,
Which occurred to
the famous emperor and if it is not
there ,
What is the reason for this very great sorrow, Please tell.”
1822.He said, “My matchless younger brother Bharata would,
Rule the earth
and I having decided to follow the order
of my parents,
Would start today itself
and reach the forest with mountains ,
Surrounded by clouds
and reach back. Do not become sad.”
1823.Hearing that
Sita understanding that her lord is going to the forest,
And that he had lost the
kingdom that was owned by him,
Did not cry, but the
very cruel words , “I am going
and do not cry”,
Burnt her ears
and due to that she became
greatly depressed.
1824.She who was with him on Adhi Sesha in the ocean of
milk ,
Thinking that “dharma would get destroyed” , even after ,
He came to Ayodhya
did not part from him and when he said,
The words that I
am leaving you , became
inconsolable .
1825,She whose nature was like that thought that,
The orders to
him from his father and mother was indeed pure,
And he said to
me, “You be here in the palace” .
And thinking about it again and again struggled with sorrow.
1826.Rama said,”Oh Sita, your feet fed by the cold juice of red cotton,
Are not hard enough
to walk in the mountain paths
similar to cruel asuras,
Nor to walk in the forest path which shows head like a molten lac
Or to being rubbed
by the rocks of the
forest.”
1827.Sita
replied, “ With a least love in your mind you are,
Leaving me and going away
, Where is it told that,
The sun at the
time of final deluge is hot,
Would the big forest be more hot than parting with you?”
1828.Rama hearing the words that were told by her,
Clearly understood
the thought that rose in
her mind,
And not willing
to leave her there in the ocean
of tears,
He started
thinking about what he should do.
1829.She then went in to the private rooms in her home,
Taking a decision took the bark suitable to be worn,
She wore it and
with a thought of accompanying Rama,
She went behind Rama
and held his hand which were long
like a palm.
1830.All those who saw
Sita dressed up in wooden bark,
Fell on the earth
which is a place to die but they
did not die,
For if they have
more life span , how can they die
,
And they would still
be living even if deluge comes.
1831.Her sisters ,
her maids who were with her ,
And her several friends who loved her dearly,
Became like people drowned in sea of fire and then,
The red eyed Rama looking at the virtuous Sita told.
1832.Oh Sita who
has pretty teeth which can win over,
Jasmine buds as well as sea pearls if they compete,
You are not thinking
about the ill effects that may
come,
And have become ready to come with me and,
Because of
that you would create measureless problems.”
1833.When the king Rama
told these words ,
Sita who had a voice like an angry koel seethed with anger,
And told, ‘It looks the only sorrow that you would
face in the forest,
Is my coming with you and possibly there is some
other pleasure in the forest.”
1834,. Then Rama without talking
any other word ,
Not getting path, moved away with difficulty in the field
like streets,
Due to the slushy
mud created there ,
Due to the crying
of men and women.
1835.With Sita dressed in wooden bark cloth following him and with,
The strong Lakshmana
holding a great bow going in
front,
Rama who was like the cloud started
moving, and can we ,
Describe properly
the great sorrow attained by the citizens.
1836.From then no body
cried and became sad and with
depressed mind,
They all thought
about it and decided, “Even before
he reaches the forest,
We will go there, “
and with shouting “war” , they all
departed from there.
1837.Rama who held a bow which was decorated by a
garland,
As soon as he
reached the door of the palace of Dasaratha,
Saluted his
mothers who were accompanying him
and ,
Requested them,
“Be here and console the emperor” ,
And all those
ladies hearing that fell down in a swoon.
1838.Those mothers who were crying making scar on their toungues,
Blessed
their son as well as their
daughter in law , praised them,
And prayed to God,
“Oh Gods , protect them and give them
back to us.”
1839. After
their mothers parted
from them with lot of difficulty ,
Rama saluted the
sage who was standing in the front ,
along with his,
Soul like younger brother Lakshmana and
Sita , who was,
The goddess Lakshmi
sitting on the flower , he went
away riding on a chariot.
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