Introduction
Rama finds Seetha’s flowers and footprints, followed by heavy footprints of some male massive demon. On detailed probing there appear some more ruins of a combat between two warriors. Concluding that Seetha is definitely abducted by a massive demon, Rama wants to countermove the universe, even by waging a war with gods.
स दीनो दीनया वाचा लक्ष्मणम् वाक्यम् अब्रवीत् |
शीघ्रम् लक्ष्मण जानीहि गत्वा गोदावरीम् नदीम् || ३-६४-१
अपि गोदावरीम् सीता पद्मानि आनयितुम् गता |
shiighram lakShmaNa jaaniihi gatvaa godaavariim nadiim || 3-64-1
api godaavariim siitaa padmaani aanayitum gataa |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.1, 3.64.2a
A pitiable one, such as he is, he spoke to Lakshmana in a pitiable voice, “Lakshmana, go quickly to River Godavari and find out whether Seetha has gone to Godavari to fetch lotuses…” [3-64-1, 2a] .
एवम् उक्तः तु रामेण लक्ष्मणः पुनः एव हि || ३-६४-२
नदीम् गोदावरीम् रम्याम् जगाम लघु विक्रमः |
nadiim godaavariim ramyaam jagaama laghu vikramaH |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.2b, 3.64.3a
When Rama said thus to him Lakshmana again went to the charming River Godavari quickening his pace. [3-64-2b, 3a] .
ताम् लक्ष्मणः तीर्थवतीम् विचित्वा रामम् अब्रवीत् || ३-६४-३
नैनाम् पश्यामि तीर्थेषु क्रोशतो न शृणोति मे |
nainaam pashyaami tiir.htheShu kroshato na shR^iNoti me |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.3b, 3.64.4a
Searching at many declivities which River Godavari has on its banks Lakshmana said to Rama, “I do not espy her at ghats, declivities of riverbanks, and she is not replying though I shouted for her. [3-64-3b, 4a] .
कम् नु सा देशम् आपन्ना वैदेही क्लेश नाशिनी || ३-६४-४
न हि तम् वेद्मि वै राम यत्र सा तनु मध्यमा |
na hi tam vedmi vai raama yatra saa tanu madhyamaa |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.4b, 3.64.5a
“In fact, oh, Rama, to which place she that neutraliser of nervousness, namely Vaidehi, has got round to, or where that frailty is, that place is really incomprehensible to me… [3-64-4b, 5a] .
लक्ष्मणस्य वचः श्रुत्वा दीनः संताप मोहितः || ३-६४-५
रामः समभिचक्राम स्वयम् गोदावरीम् नदीम् |
स ताम् उपस्थितो रामः क्व सीते इति एवम् अब्रवीत् || ३-६४-६
raamaH samabhicakraama svayam godaavariim nadiim |
sa taam upasthito raamaH kva siite iti evam abraviit || 3-64-6
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.5b, 3.64.6
Rama who is already stupefied by anguish is now despaired on listening Lakshmana’s words and he personally went straight to River Godavari, and staying nearby that river Rama shouted in this way, “Seetha… where are you?” [3-64-5b, 6] .
भूतानि राक्षसेन्द्रेण वध अर्हेण हृताम् अपि |
न ताम् शशंसू रामाय तथा गोदावरी नदी || ३-६४-७
na taam shashaMsuu raamaaya tathaa godaavarii nadii || 3-64-7
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.7
The forest creatures which were asked earlier have not said to Rama that a deservedly destructible demagogue of demons has divested him of Seetha, likewise now River Godavari which is now being asked has not informed Rama about Seetha. [3-64-7] .
ततः प्रचोदिता भूतैः शंस च अस्मै प्रियाम् इति |
न च सा हि अवदत् सीताम् पृष्टा रामेण शोचता || ३-६४-८
na ca saa hi avadat siitaam pR^iShTaa raameNa shocataa || 3-64-8
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.8
Though the woeful Rama has asked her, and even though all the georgic beings impelled her to inform Rama the fact about his ladylove, River Godavari then remained mouthless about Seetha. [3-64-8] .
रावणस्य च तत् रूपम् कर्माणि च दुरात्मनः |
ध्यात्वा भयात् तु वैदेहीम् सा नदी न शशंस ह || ३-६४-९
dhyaatvaa bhayaat tu vaidehiim saa nadii na shashaMsa ha || 3-64-9
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.9
She that River Godavari has not informed Rama about Vaidehi just out of fear on recalling the mien and manoeuvres of malefic-minded Ravana, lest Ravana may drain her away. [3-64-9] .
निराशः तु तया नद्या सीताया दर्शने कृतः |
उवाच रामः सौमित्रिम् सीता दर्शन कर्शितः || ३-६४-१०
uvaaca raamaH saumitrim siitaa darshana karshitaH || 3-64-10
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.10
Rama who is already in a rundown condition owing to the non-appearance of Seetha, is further rendered as a hopeless being by River Godavari in the matter of his catching a glimpse of Seetha, and such a Rama spoke to Saumitri. [3-64-10] .
एषा गोदावरी सौम्य किंचन् न प्रतिभाषते |
किम् नु लक्ष्मण वक्ष्यामि समेत्य जनकम् वचः || ३-६४-११
मातरम् चैव वैदेह्या विना ताम् अहम् अप्रियम् |
kim nu lakShmaNa vakShyaami sametya janakam vacaH || 3-64-11
maataram caiva vaidehyaa vinaa taam aham apriyam |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.11, 3.64.12a
“Oh, kind Lakshmana, this Godavari is talking to me anything but a reply. In the absence of Vaidehi, oh Lakshmana, really what is that unpleasant word I have to say to Vaidehi’s father king Janaka, also thus to Vaidehi’s mother-in-law and my mother Kausalya, when I meet them! [3-64-11, 12a] .
या मे राज्य विहीनस्य वने वन्येन जीवतः || ३-६४-१२
सर्वम् व्यपनयत् शोकम् वैदेही क्व नु सा गता |
sarvam vyapanayat shokam vaidehii kva nu saa gataa |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.12b, 3.64.13a
“Which Vaidehi is the remover of all my sadness who am a destitute of kingdom and surviving in forests on forest produce, such as she is, where has she gone, really! [3-64-12b, 13a] .
ज्ञाति वर्ग विहीनस्य राज पुत्रीम् अपश्यतः || ३-६४-१३
मन्ये दीर्घा भविष्यन्ति रात्रयो मम जाग्रतः |
manye diirghaa bhaviShyanti raatrayo mama jaagrataH |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.13b, 3.64.14a
“Though I am distanced from my relatives I deemed that princess Seetha alone would be an evermore relative of mine. But now when that princess alone is unseen I deem that my sleepless nights would be lengthy. [3-64-13b, 14a] .
मंदाकिनीम् जनस्थानम् इमम् प्रस्रवणम् गिरिम् || ३-६४-१४
सर्वाणि अनुचरिष्यामि यदि सीता हि लभ्यते |
sar.hvaaNi anucariShyaami yadi siitaa hi labhyate |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.14b, 3.64.15a
“I will search all these places of Godavari, Janasthaana and this mountain with many rapids, perhaps Seetha may be available somewhere. [3-64-14b, 15a]
River Mandakini is River Ganga and here River Godavari is said as Ganga as there are five Ganga-s panca gangaa Cauvery, Tungabhadra, Krishna Veni, Gautami [namely Godavari,] Bhaagiirathi. in Southern India and these are held sacred on par with River Ganga.
एते महा मृगा वीर माम् ईक्षन्ते पुनः पुनः || ३-६४-१५
वक्तु कामा इह हि मे इंगितानि अनुपलक्षये |
vaktu kaamaa iha hi me i.ngitaani anupalakshaye |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.15b, 3.64.16a
“Now all these burly animals are repeatedly looking at me as though to speak to me, oh, brave Lakshmana, this I reckon with their body language as it were. [3-64-15b, 16a] .
तान् तु दृष्ट्वा नरव्याघ्र राघवः प्रत्युवाच ह || ३-६४-१६
क्व सीत इति निरीक्षन् वै बाष्प संरुद्धया गिरा |
kva siita iti niriikshan vai baaShpa saMruddhayaa giraa |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.16b, 3.64.17a
But on seeing them pryingly that tigerly-man Raghava has indeed asked them at once with a voice stifled with tears, “where is Seetha?” [3-64-16b, 17a] .
एवम् उक्ता नरेन्द्रेण ते मृगाः सहसा उत्थिता || ३-६४-१७
दक्षिण अभिमुखाः सर्वे दर्शयन्तो नभः स्थलम् |
मैथिली ह्रियमाणा सा दिशम् याम् अभ्यपद्यत || ३-६४-१८
तेन मार्गेण गच्छन्तो निरीक्षन्तो नराधिपम् |
dakshiNa abhimukhaaH sarve darshayanto nabhaH sthalam |
maithilii hriyamaaNaa saa disham yaam abhyapadyata || 3-64-18
tena maargeNa gacchhanto niriikshanto naraadhipam |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.17b to 3.64.19a
When that best king has asked, those animals rose to their feet in a trice and facing themselves southward showed skyward with their snouts. And while running in the direction in which Maithili is taken away they are stopping to look back at that lord of people, Rama. Thus they are repeatedly running, stopping and staring at Rama. [3-64-17b, 18, 19a] .
येन मार्गम् च भूमिम् च निरीक्षन्ते स्म ते मृगाः || ३-६४-१९
पुनः नदन्तो गच्छन्ति लक्ष्मणेन उपलक्षिताः |
punaH nadanto gacchhanti lakshmaNena upalakshitaaH |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.19b, 3.64.20a
By which reason those animals are going in a southerly course on a southerly terrain, and stopping to peer at Rama, and again clamorously adopting the very same southerly course, Lakshmana ascertained that reason. [3-64-19b, 20a] .
तेषाम् वचन सर्वस्वम् लक्षयामास च इन्गितम् || ३-६४-२०
उवाच लक्ष्मणो धीमान् ज्येष्ठम् भ्रातरम् आर्तवत् |
uvaaca lakshmaNo dhiimaan jyeShTham bhraataram aartavat |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.20b, 3.64.21a
On noticing the lingua franca and even the lingua persona of those animals, that imaginative Lakshmana spoke to his elder brother, alike a striver striving hard for some information. [3-64-20b, 21a] .
क्व सीत इति त्वया पृष्टा यथा इमे सहसा उथिताः || ३-६४-२१
दर्शयन्ति क्षितिम् चैव दक्षिणाम् च दिशम् मृगाः |
सधु गच्छावहे देव दिशम् एताम् च नैर्ऋतीम् || ३-६४-२२
यदि तस्य आगमः कश्चित् आर्या वा सा अथ लक्ष्यते |
darshayanti kshitim caiva dakshiNaam ca disham mR^igaaH |
sadhu gacchhaavahe deva disham etaam ca nair.hR^itiim || 3-64-22
yadi tasya aagamaH kashchit aaryaa vaa saa atha lakshyate |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.21b to 3.64.23a
“Oh, godly brother, when you have asked these animals, ‘where is Seetha,’ they quickly rose to their feet, and as to how they are showing the track on the ground and the southern direction as well, thereby we may, for sure, go south-westward to know whether there is some information about her, or else, even that noble lady herself may be available there…” [3-64-21a, 22, 23a] .
बाढम् इति एव काकुत्स्थः प्रस्थितो दक्षिणाम् दिशम् || ३-६४-२३
लक्ष्मण अनुगत श्रीमान् वीक्ष्यमाणो वसुन्धराम् |
lakshmaNa anugata shriimaan viikshyamaaNo vasundharaam |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.23b, 3.64.24a
On saying “Yes!” to Lakshmana that illustrious Rama of Kakutstha sallied forth to southern direction followed by Lakshmana, scrutinising the earth on his walkway. [3-64-23b, 24a] .
एवम् संभाषमाणौ तौ अन्योन्यम् भ्रातरौ उभौ || ३-६४-२४
वसुन्धरायाम् पतित पुष्प मार्गम् अपश्यताम् |
vasundharaayaam patita puShpa maargam apashyataam |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.24b, 3.64.25a
Those two brothers who are proceeding while discussing among themselves have seen the walkway bestrewn with flowers fallen from a person. [3-64-24b, 25a] .
पुष्प वृष्टिम् निपतिताम् दृष्ट्वा रामो मही तले || ३-६४-२५
उवाच लक्ष्मणम् वीरो दुःखितो दुःखितम् वचः |
uvaaca lakShmaNam viiro duHkhito duHkhitam vacaH |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.25b, 3.64.26a
That valiant Rama who is anguished to see the drizzle of flowers fallen on the surface of earth spoke this word to Lakshmana who is equally anguished. [3-64-25b, 26a] .
अभिजानामि पुष्पाणि तानि इमानि इह लक्ष्मण || ३-६४-२६
अपिनद्धानि वैदेह्या मया दत्तानि कानने |
apinaddhaani vaidehyaa mayaa dattaani kaanane |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.26b, 3.64.27a
“I recognise these flowers that are fallen here, oh, Lakshmana. In forest I gave them to Vaidehi and she tucked these very flowers in her bun. [3-64-26b, 27a] .
मन्ये सूर्यः च वायुः च मेदिनी च यशशिविनि || ३-६४-२७
अभिरक्षन्ति पुष्पाणि प्रकुर्वन्तो मम प्रियम् |
abhirakshanti puShpaaNi prakurvanto mama priyam |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.27b, 3.64.28a
“These flowers are carefully safeguarded by the sun, as they are unwithered yet, by air as they are unswept by it, and by the glorious earth, as they are unspoilt by that, thus I deem that these naturals, sun, air, and earth are really proffering a helping hand to me. [3-64-27b, 28a] .
एवम् उक्त्वा महाबाहुः लक्ष्मणम् पुरुषर्षभम् || ३-६४-२८
उवाच रामो धर्मात्मा गिरिम् प्रसवण आकुलम् |
uvaaca raamo dharmaatmaa girim prasavaNa aakulam |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.28b, 3.64.29a
On saying thus to best one among men Lakshmana, that virtue-souled and dextrous Rama asked the mountain that is uproarious with rapids. [3-64-28b, 29a] .
कच्चित् क्षिति भृताम् नाथ दृष्टा सर्वांग सुंदरीम् || ३-६४-२९
रामा रम्ये वनोद् देशे मया विरहिता त्वया |
raamaa ramye vanod deshe mayaa virahitaa tvayaa |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.29b, 3.64.30a
“Oh, lord among the earth-bolstered mountains, have you somehow seen a beauty by all her limbs, foregone by me in beautiful woodlands?” [3-64-29b, 30a]
This question contains a reply to Rama in a sort of jugglery of words / parsing as in – able was I ere I saw Elba. kshiti bhR^itaam naatha ‘of earth, among bolsterers, lord; oh, lordly bolsterer of earth, oh, king Rama; tvyaa virahitaa ‘by you, foregone…’ maya dR^iSTaa iti kaschit, kaschit= kaama pravedane ‘ by me, seen…’
Reply of mountain to Rama:”Oh, lordly bolsterer of earth, lord Rama, I have somehow seen a beauty by all her limbs, foregone by you in beautiful woodlands.’
When the question itself becomes an answer it is citra alankaara and the mountain gave that reply in an echo of Rama’s verbiage. Rama takes this as a mere echo of the mountain, but not a clear reply, and thus angering at it he wants to splinter it down, as said in next lines.
क्रुद्धो अब्रवीत् गिरिम् तत्र सिंहः क्षुद्र मृगम् यथा || ३-६४-३०
ताम् हेम वर्णाम् हेम अंगीम् सीताम् दर्शय पर्वत |
यावत् सानूनि सर्वाणि न ते विध्वंसयामि अहम् || ३-६४-३१
taam hema varNaam hema a.ngiim siitaam darshaya parvata |
yaavat saanuuni sar.hvaaNi na te vidhvaMsayaami aham || 3-64-31
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.30b, 3.64.31
Because his question is unanswered he is enraged as with a lion enraging at a puny animal, and then he spoke to the mountain, “show me that golden tinged, golden limbed Seetha, oh, mountain, no sooner than I devastate all your apices, apiece…” [3-64-30b, 31] .
एवम् उक्तः तु रामेण पर्वतो मैथिलीम् प्रति |
दर्शयन् इव ताम् सीताम् न दर्शयत राघवे || ३-६४-३२
darshayan iva taam siitaam na darshayata raaghave || 3-64-32
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.32
When Rama spoke to the mountain in this way, that mountain echoed as if it is revealing Seetha, but actually it has not revealed Seetha to Raghava. [3-64-32]
When the mountain replied echoing the same words of Rama, Rama deemed it silent on other account of Seetha, but just said ‘I have seen Seetha…’ Hence, that mountain said anything but a proper indication, thus it has dishonoured Rama – Maheshvara Tiirtha. The mountain appeared to have said something but kept mum on other details – Govindaraja. In either way it silent on other details for fear of later time atrocity of Ravana, thereby Rama wanted to subject it to his arrows atrocity, now itself.
ततो दाशरथी राम उवाच शिलोच्चयम् |
मम बाण अग्नि निर्दग्धो भस्मी भूतो भविष्यसि || ३-६४-३३
असेव्यः सततम् चैव निस्तृण द्रुम पल्लवः |
mama baaNa agni nirdagdho bhasmii bhuuto bhaviShyasi || 3-64-33
asevyaH satatam caiva nistR^iNa druma pallavaH |
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Show Description: Sloka 3.64.33, 3.64.34a
Then Rama of Dasharatha said to the hefty mountain, “When the infernos of my arrows will burn you down completely and when you will be pared down ashes, you shall be grassless, treeless and tender-leafless, and thus you become a meritless mountain… hence, show Seetha before becoming so… [3-64-33, 34a] .
इमाम् वा सरितम् च अद्य शोषयिष्यामि लक्ष्मण || ३-६४-३४
यदि न आख्याति मे सीताम् अद्य चन्द्र निभ आननाम् |
yadi na aakhyaati me siitaam adya candra nibha aananaam |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.34b, 3.64.35a
“Lakshmana, if this River Godavari is not going to tell me immediately about that moonshine-faced Seetha, now I will dry her up… [3-64-34b, 35a] .
एवम् प्ररुषितो रामो दिधक्षन् इव चक्षुषा || ३-६४-३५
ददर्श भूमौ निष्क्रांतम् राक्षसस्य पदम् महत् |
त्रस्तया राम काङ्क्षिण्याः प्रधावन्त्या इतः ततः || ३-६४-३६
राक्षसेन अनुवृत्तया वैदेह्या च पादानि तु |
dadarsha bhuumau niSh.hkraa.ntam raakShasasya padam mahat |
trastayaa raama kaa~NkshiNyaaH pradhaavan.htyaa itaH tataH || 3-64-36
raakshasena anuvR^ittayaa vaidehyaa ca paadaani tu |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.35b to 3.64.37a
This way when Rama is highly infuriated and who appeared to burn down anything just with his eyes, then he has seen on the ground gigantic footprints of a demon, and the footprints of Vaidehi, who appeared to have run fearfully here and there in a helter-skelter manner expecting the arrival of Rama, and which footprints are heavily trodden by a demon who followed her. [3-64-35b, 36, 37a] .
स समीक्ष्य परिक्रान्तम् सीताया राक्षसस्य च || ३-६४-३७
भंगम् धनुः च तूणी च विकीर्णाम् बहुधा रथम् |
संभ्रांत हृदयो रामः शशंस भ्रातरम् प्रियम् || ३-६४-३८
bha.ngam dhanuH ca tuuNii ca vikiirNaam bahudhaa ratham |
saMbhraa.nta hR^idayo raamaH shashaMsa bhraataram priyam || 3-64-38
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.37b, 3.64.38
On scrutinising the overly trodden footprints of Seetha and the demon, and a broken bow, broken quiver, and broken and variously bestrewn chariot also, then Rama became baffle-hearted and said to his dear brother Lakshmana. [3-64-37b, 38] .
पश्य लक्ष्मण वैदेह्याः कीर्णाम् कनक बिन्दवः |
भूषणानाम् हि सौमित्रे माल्यानि विविधानि च || ३-६४-३९
bhuuShaNaanaam hi saumitre maalyaani vividhaani ca || 3-64-39
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.39
“See Lakshmana, many beads of jewellery and many bits of garlands of Vaidehi have indeed fallen down, and oh, Soumitri, they are strewn around… [3-64-39] .
तप्त बिन्दु निकाशैः च चित्रैः क्षतज बिन्दुभिः |
आवृतम् पश्य सौमित्रे सर्वतो धरणी तलम् || ३-६४-४०
aavR^itam pashya saumitre sarvato dharaNii talam || 3-64-40
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.40
“Also the surface of the earth is everywhere interspersed with big and small blood drops that are akin to golden droplets, you see them Saumitri… [3-64-40] .
मन्ये लक्ष्मण वैदेही राक्षसैः काम रूपिभिः |
भित्त्वा भित्त्वा विभक्ता वा भक्षिता वा भविष्यति || ३-६४-४१
bhittvaa bhittvaa vibhaktaa vaa bhakShitaa vaa bhaviShyati || 3-64-41
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.41
“I think Lakshmana, guise changing demons would have ripped and rived Vaidehi, or divided her into pieces, or they might have gluttonised her. [3-64-41] .
तस्या निमित्तम् वैदेह्या द्वयोः विवदमानयोः |
बभूव युद्धम् सौमित्रे घोरम् राक्षसयोः इह || ३-६४-४२
babhuuva yuddham saumitre ghoram raakShasayoH iha || 3-64-42
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.42
“A deadly clash has occurred here, Soumitri, while two demons were clashing between themselves on account of Vaidehi… [3-64-42] .
मुक्ता मणि चितम् च इदम् तपनीय विभूषितम् |
धरण्याम् पतितम् सौम्य कस्य भग्नम् महत् धनुः || ३-६४-४३
राक्षसानाम् इदम् वस्त सुराणाम् अधवा अपि |
dharaNyaam patitam saumya kasya bhagnam mahat dhanuH || 3-64-43
raakshasaanaam idam vasta suraaNaam adhavaa api |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.43, 3.64.44a
“Oh, gentle Lakshmana, studded with pearls and gems this great bow of someone is beautifully decorated, but it is fragmented and fallen to earth. Oh, dear boy, Lakshmana, this bow may perhaps belong to demons, or else to gods… [3-64-43, 44a] .
तरुण आदित्य संकाशम् वैदूर्य गुलिका चितम् || ३-६४-४४
विशीर्णम् पतितम् भूमौ कवचम् कस्य कांचनम् |
vishiirNam patitam bhuumau kavacam kasya kaa.ncanam |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.44b, 3.64.45a
“Studded with lapis gem beads this golden armour of someone is similar to the rising sun in its shine, but it is splintered and fallen to earth… [3-64-44b, 45a] .
छत्रम् शत शलाकम् च दिव्य माल्य उपशोभितम् || ३-६४-४५
भग्न दण्डम् इदम् कस्य भूमौ सौम्य निपातितम् |
bhagna daNDam idam kasya bhuumau saumya nipaatitam |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.45b, 3.64.46a
“This hundred-spoked regal-parasol of someone is embellished with divine festoons, but oh, gentle Lakshmana, its central-shaft is wrecked and it is felled to earth… [3-64-45b, 46a] .
कान्चन उरः छदाः च इमे पिशाच वदनाः खराः || ३-६४-४६
भीम रूपा महाकायाः कस्य वा निहता रणे |
bhiima ruupaa mahaakaayaaH kasya vaa nihataa raNe |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.46b, 3.64.47a
“These ghost-faced mules with golden breastplates are macabre in form and massive in frame, but they are hewed down in war, whose are they, either… [3-64-46b, 47a] .
दीप्त पावक संकाशो द्युतिमान् समर ध्वजः || ३-६४-४७
अपविद्धः च भग्नः च कस्य सांग्रामिको रथः |
apaviddhaH ca bhagnaH ca kasya saaMgraamiko rathaH |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.47b, 3.64.48a
“Somebody’s combat-chariot is irradiant and similar in shine to the flaring fire with a war-pennon, but it is broken and battered down, as well… [3-64-47b, 48a] .
रथ अक्ष मात्रा विशिखाः तपनीय विभूषणाः || ३-६४-४८
कस्य इमे निहता बाणाः प्रकीर्णा घोर दर्शनः |
kasya ime nihataa baaNaaH prakiirNaa ghora darshanaH |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.48b, 3.64.49a
“These frightful looking arrows of somebody are gilded and they are as much as a chariot’s axle in their thickness, but their arrowheads are shred and they are manifoldly shredded and strewn around… [3-64-48, 49a]
The sizes of Ravana’s arrows are calculated differently. This ratha aksha maatra is taken as the length of chariot’s wheel and thus it is said four-hundred inches or some 33 feet, which is unacceptable to some as Ravana did not travel in his chariot with a mega body. In another way aksha is taken as the ‘eye of axle…’ Then the diameter of his arrow is said, ‘as thick as an axle…’ Some others said the size of arrow is eighty-four inches according to shilpa shaastra ‘science of chariot making…’ taking this ‘eye of axle’ into consideration.
शरावरौ शरैः पूर्णौ विध्वस्तौ पश्य लक्ष्मण || ३-६४-४९
प्रतोद अभीशु हस्तो अयम् कस्य वा सारथिः हतः |
pratoda abhiishu hasto ayam kasya vaa saarathiH hataH |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.49b, 3.64.50a
“Lakshmana, you see these two quivers packed with arrows are completely shattered, and the charioteer is drop dead with whip and bridles still in his hands… whose charioteer he might be! [3-64-49b, 50a]
The word used here for quivers is sharaavara and for this Dr. Satya Vrat says: ‘Another word which is also not noticed by Monier Williams is sharaavara. It means an armour kavaca and occurs at least twice in the Ramayana…’ Here and at 3-51-14 of this canto and there it was used in the meaning of armour. If this meaning of armour is adopted here also, then the meaning of the above verse may somewhat be,
Lakshmana, you see… these two armours, one belonging to the combatant from this chariot [that is ripped off by Jataayu and fallen from the body of Ravana,] and the other belonging to this charioteer, both are encrusted fully with arrows [when Jataayu winnowed the very same arrows shot by Ravana with both of his wings and thus shot them back,] thus the two armours are completely shattered… and the charioteer is drop dead with whip and bridles in his hand… either he… whose is he… and where is the presiding combatant of this chariot…..
पदवी पुरुषस्य एषा व्यक्तम् कस्य अपि राक्षसः || ३-६४-५०
वैरम् शत गुणम् पश्य मम तैः जीवित अंतकम् |
vairam shata guNam pashya mama taiH jiivita a.ntakam |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.50b, 3.64.51a
“Evidently this is the modus operandi of someone who is a male demon, and you see how my animosity has become hundredfold to eradicate them… [3-64-50b, 51a]
This is the reply to Seetha for she wanted no animosity could be nurtured towards the demons without a cause, in the opening chapters of this Aranya Kanda. When she herself became a cause for that animosity, now Rama is indicating the effect of that cause, in saying: ‘I have some animosity towards these demons, but I have not eliminated them sweepingly, but for some demons occasionally… I thought that Seetha strayed her way, or eaten away by some pauperised paltry demon… but on seeing the massive footprints I consider this as a calculated and culpable crime… now that my animosity is multiplied hundredfold, whole of the demonic race will be eliminated…’ .
सुघोर हृदयैः सौम्य राक्षसैः काम रूपिभिः || ३-६४-५१
हृता मृता वा सीता हि भक्षिता वा तपस्विनी |
न धर्मः त्रायते सीताम् ह्रियमाणाम् महावने || ३-६४-५२
hR^itaa mR^itaa vaa siitaa hi bhakShitaa vaa tapasvinii |
na dharmaH traayate siitaam hriyamaaNaam mahaavane || 3-64-52
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.51b, 3.64.52
“The highly stony-hearted demons that are guise-changers by their wish have either abducted, or killed or gluttonised saintly Seetha… but, they say that rectitude saves such saintly persons… yet that rectitude has not saved Seetha while she is being abducted in great forest… [3-64-51b, 52]
Dharma or Righteousness does not go on safeguarding either its adherents or antagonists, everyone, everywhere, everlastingly. dharmo rakshati rakshitaH and suchlike sayings are also time-bound and when the time is negative aapatsu raksha ko dharmaH ‘in difficulties which rightness safeguards?’ is the ensuing dilemma.
भक्षितायाम् हि वैदेह्याम् हृतायाम् अपि लक्ष्मण |
के हि लोके प्रियम् कर्तुम् शक्ताः सौम्य मम ईश्वराः || ३-६४-५३
ke hi loke priyam kartum shaktaaH saumya mama iishvaraaH || 3-64-53
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.53
“Whether Vaidehi is taken away or taken in by some unknown being, oh, gentle Lakshmana, then who are the gods who can possibly be benignant to me in this world… [3-64-53]
‘No god can possibly be non-benignant to me, either in this world or in the other…’ Govindaraja.
कर्तारम् अपि लोकानाम् शूरम् करुण वेदिनम् |
अज्ञानात् अवमन्येरन् सर्व भूतानि लक्ष्मण || ३-६४-५४
aGYaanaat avamanyeran sarva bhuutaani lakShmaNa || 3-64-54
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.54
“Lakshmana, someone, even if He were a Creator of Worlds, or an Omnipotent, if He were to be lenient at heart or in His actions, He will be disrespected by all beings, owing to the unenlightenment of those beings… [3-64-54] .
मृदुम् लोक हिते युक्तम् दांतम् करुण वेदिनम् |
निर्वीर्य इति मन्यन्ते नूनम् माम् त्रिदश ईश्वराः || ३-६४-५५
nir.hviirya iti manyante nuunam maam tridasha iishvaraaH || 3-64-55
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Show Description: Sloka 3.64.55
“I who am mellowly, magnanimous, merciful and yoked only to the wellbeing of all worlds, such as I am, all of the heavenly gods deem me as non-Omnipotent… it is definite… [3-64-55]
Annex: ‘Even if I am capable of creating, maintaining, and destructing all the worlds, I am lenient, for I am benevolent… but the unwise are unable to know me, the real me… evil-doers are reverenced by one and all, though negatively owing to scare… but a do-gooder is scoffed off, for his deeds are positive and do not yield quick and instant results… and my Omnipotence is looked down as my impotence…’ This concept is amplified throughout Bhagavat Gita.
माम् प्राप्य हि गुणो दोषः संवृत्तः पश्य लक्ष्मण |
अद्य एव सर्व भूतानाम् रक्षसाम् अभवाय च || ३-६४-५६
संहृत्य एव शशि ज्योत्स्नाम् महान् सूर्य इव उदितः |
संहृत्य एव गुणान् सर्वान् मम तेजः प्रकाश्ते || ३-६४-५७
adya eva sarva bhuutaanaam rakShasaam abhavaaya ca || 3-64-56
saMhR^itya eva shashi jyotsnaam mahaan suurya iva uditaH |
saMhR^itya eva guNaan sarvaan mama tejaH prakaashte || 3-64-57
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.56, 3.64.57
“Have you seen Lakshmana how merits like mercifulness, magnanimity and the like are inverted to become demerits on getting at me, thus I am unmerited in forgoing Seetha. As such, as with the sizzle of sun uprisen quelling all the moonshine, now you may see as to how my irradiance radiates quelling all the merits like softness and fairness for the nonentity of all beings proactive to demons, inclusive of demons. [3-64-56, 57] .
न एव यक्षा न गंधर्वा न पिशाचा न राक्षसाः |
किन्नरा वा मनुष्या वा सुखम् प्राप्स्यन्ति लक्ष्मण || ३-६४-५८
kinnaraa vaa manuShyaa vaa sukham praapsyanti lakShmaNa || 3-64-58
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.58
“Oh, Lakshmana, will the yaksha-s be comfortable now, no; gandharva-s – no; monsters – no; demons – no; either kinnaraa-s or humans – no, none can be comfortable henceforth… [3-64-58] .
मम अस्त्र बाण संपूर्णम् आकाशम् पश्य लक्ष्मण |
असंपातम् करिष्यामि हि अद्य त्रैलोक्य चारिणाम् || ३-६४-५९
asaMpaatam kariShyaami hi adya trailokya caariNaam || 3-64-59
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.59
“Now the welkin will be packed with my arrows and missiles, and I will render it as an impassable sphere for the treaders in the triad of worlds… [3-64-59] .
संनिरुद्धग्रहगणमावारितनिशाकरम् |
विप्रनष्टानलमरुद्भास्करद्युतिसंवृतम् || – यद्व –
संनिरुद्ध ग्रह गणम् आवारित निशा करम् |
विप्रनष्ट अनल मरुत् भास्कर द्युति संवृतम् || ३-६४-६०
विनिर्मथितशैलाग्रम्शुष्यमाणजलाअशयम् |
ध्वस्तद्रुमलतागुल्मम्विप्रणाशितसागरम् || – यद्वा –
विनिर्मथित शैल अग्रम् शुष्यमाण जल आशयम् |
ध्वस्त द्रुम लता गुल्मम् विप्रणाशित सागरम् || ३-६४-६१
त्रै लोक्यम् तु करिष्यामि संयुक्तम् काल कर्मणा |
vipranaShTaanalamarudbhaaskaradyutisaMvR^itam || – yadva –
saMniruddha graha gaNam aavaarita nishaa karam |
vipranaShTa anala marut bhaaskara dyuti saMvR^itam || 3-64-60
vinirmathitashailaagram.hshuShyamaaNajalaaashayam |
dhvastadrumalataagulmam.hvipraNaashitasaagaram || – yadvaa –
vinir.hmathita shaila agram shuShyamaaNa jala aashayam |
dhvasta druma lataa gulmam vipraNaashita saagaram || 3-64-61
trai lokyam tu kariShyaami saMyuktam kaala karmaNaa |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.60 to 3.64.62a
“I will make the triad of worlds quiescent by completely blockading all the planetary bodies. The night-maker moon will be barricaded, aurae of fire, air and sun will be devastated, and then everything will be overcast with darkness. Mountaintops will be completely pulverised, water receptacles will be dried out, and trees, creeping-plants and shrubberies will be destroyed, and oceans depleted, thus I will bring the triad of the worlds to nought, relative to the task of Time in extinguishing an era… [3-64-60, 61, 62a] .
न ते कुशलिनीम् सीताम् प्रदास्यन्ति मम ईश्वराः || ३-६४-६२
अस्मिन् मुहूर्ते सौमित्रे मम द्रक्ष्यन्ति विक्रमम् |
asmin muhuurte saumitre mama drakShyanti vikramam |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.62b, 3.64.63a
“If the gods are not going to safely restore Seetha to me, oh, Soumitri, they can see what my blitzkrieg is, at this very moment… [3-64-62b, 63a] .
न आकाशम् उत्पतिष्यन्ति सर्व भूतानि लक्ष्मण || ३-६४-६३
मम चाप गुण उन्मुक्तैः बाण जालैः निरंतरम् |
mama caapa guNa unmuktaiH baaNa jaalaiH nira.ntaram |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.63b, 3.64.64a
“All beings cannot fly high in the sky, oh, Lakshmana, as there will be a labyrinth of my arrows released from my bowstring, minus an intercolumniation… [3-64-63b, 64a] .
मर्दितम् मम नाराचैः ध्वस्त भ्रांत मृग द्विजम् || ३-६४-६४
समाकुलम् अमर्यादम् जगत् पश्य अद्य लक्ष्मण |
samaakulam amaryaadam jagat pashya adya lakShmaNa |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.64b, 3.64.65a
“Bombarded with my iron-shafts this world will be put to disorderliness, Lakshmana, you may now witness how the animals and birds will be dazed and devastated… [3-64-64b, 65a] .
आकर्णपूर्णैरिषुभिर्जीवलोकंदुरावरैः || – यद्वा –
आकर्ण पूर्णैर् इषुभिर् जीव लोकम् दुरावरैः || ३-६४-६५
करिष्ये मैथिली हेतोः अपिशाचम् अराक्षसम् |
aakarNa puurNair iShubhir jiiva lokam duraavaraiH || 3-64-65
kariShye maithilii hetoH apishaacam araakShasam |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.65b, 3.64.66a
“Because of Maithili I will render this mortal world de-demonical, de-phantasmal by force-stretching my unstoppable arrows up to my ears to release them forcefully… [3-64-65b, 66a] .
मम रोष प्रयुक्तानाम् विशिखानाम् बलम् सुराः || ३-६४-६६
द्रक्ष्यन्ति अद्य विमुक्तानाम् अमर्षात् दूर गामिनाम् |
drakShyanti adya vimuktaanaam amarShaat duura gaaminaam |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.66b, 3.64.67a
“Let the gods witness now the impact of the blaze-crested, thoroughgoing arrows of mine, projected by my wrath and released by my irascibility… [3-64-66b, 67a] .
न एव देवा न दैतेया न पिशाचा न राक्षसाः || ३-६४-६७
भविष्यन्ति मम क्रोधात् त्रैलोक्ये विप्रणाशिते |
bhaviShyanti mama krodhaat trailokye vipraNaashite |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.67b, 3.64.68a
“That being so, when the triad of worlds is completely ruined by my anger will there be gods, no; demons – no; phantoms – no, none can survive… [3-64-67b, 68a] .
देव दानव यक्षाणाम् लोका ये रक्षसाम् अपि || ३-६४-६८
बहुधानिपतिष्यन्तिबाणोघैश्शकलीकृताः | – यद्वा –
बहुधा नि पतिष्यन्ति बाण ओघैः शकली कृताः |
bahudhaanipatiShyantibaaNoghaishshakaliikR^itaaH | – yadvaa –
bahudhaa ni patiShyanti baaNa oghaiH shakalii kR^itaaH |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.68b, 3.64.69a
“Whatever worlds of gods, or monsters, or even those of demons are there, they will be splintered and falling down apiece by the fusillades of my arrows… [3-64-68b, 69a] .
निर्मर्यादानिमाँल्लोकान्करिष्याम्यद्यसायकैः || – यद्वा –
निर् मर्यादान् इमान् लोकान् करिष्यामि अद्य सायकैः || ३-६४-६९
हृताम् मृताम् वा सौमित्रे न दास्यन्ति मम ईश्वराः |
nir maryaadaan imaan lokaan kariShyaami adya saayakaiH || 3-64-69
hR^itaam mR^itaam vaa saumitre na daasyanti mama iishvaraaH |
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.69b, 3.64.70a
“Whether she is abducted, or even if she is killed, oh, Soumitri, if the gods are not going to give back my Seetha I will now jeopardise these worlds with my arrows… [3-64-69b, 70a] .
तथा रूपम् हि वैदेहीम् न दास्यन्ति यदि प्रियाम् || ३-६४-७०
नाशयामि जगत् सर्वम् त्रैलोक्यम् स चर अचरम् |
यावत् दर्शनम् अस्या वै तापयामि च सायकैः || ३-६४-७१
naashayaami jagat sarvam trailokyam sa cara acaram |
yaavat darshanam asyaa vai taapayaami ca saayakaiH || 3-64-71
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.70b, 3.64.71
“If my ladylove is not returned indeed in a fine fettle as she was before my running after Golden Deer, I will be annihilating the triad of world in its entirety, together with its mobile and sessile beings, and I will be sweltering the entire universe with my arrows as long as I am not going to get a glimpse of her.” Thus Rama gave a vent to his feelings. [3-64-70b, 71] .
इति उक्त्वा क्रोध ताम्र अक्षः स्फुरमाण ओष्ट संपुटः |
वल्कल अजिनम् आबद्ध्य जटा भारम् बन्धयत् || ३-६४-७२
valkala ajinam aabaddhya jaTaa bhaaram bandhayat || 3-64-72
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.72
Rama on saying thus with his eyes reddening in fury, his lappet-fold of lips jerking spasmodically, he girded up his jute-cloths and deerskin and twined up the mass of his matted-hair. [3-64-72] .
तस्य क्रुद्धस्य रामस्य तथा अभूतस्य धीमतः |
त्रि पुरम् जग्नुषः पूर्वम् रुद्रस्य इव बभौ तनुः || ३-६४-७३
tri puram jagnuShaH puurvam rudrasya iva babhau tanuH || 3-64-73
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.73
When the disposition of that venturesome and infuriated Rama has become in that way holocaustic, it is like that of Rudra, the All-Inflamer god, when He became like this in earlier times, intending to inflame the Triple-Cities. [3-64-73] .
लक्ष्मणात् अथ च आदाय रामो निष्पीड्य कार्मुकम् |
शरम् आदाय संदीप्तम् घोरम् अशी विष उपमम् || ३-६४-७४
संदधे धनुषि श्रीमान् रामः पर पुरंजयः |
युग अन्त अग्निः इव क्रुद्धः इदम् वचनम् अब्रवीत् || ३-६४-७५
sharam aadaaya saMdiiptam ghoram ashii viSha upamam || 3-64-74
saMdadhe dhanuShi shriimaan raamaH para pura.njayaH |
yuga anta agniH iva kruddhaH idam vacanam abraviit || 3-64-75
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.74, 3.64.75
On saying so that illustrious Rama, the delighter of world, grabbed his bow from Lakshmana and gripped it tightly, unholstered a deadly and dazzling arrow from his quiver which is like a poisonous serpent, and readying it on the bowstring of his bow, that Rama, the vanquisher of enemies fastnesses, who looked like the Ear-End-Fire, spoke this sentence. [3-64-74, 75] .
यथा जरा यथा मृत्युः यथा कालो यथा विधिः |
नित्यम् न प्रतिहन्यन्ते सर्व भूतेषु लक्ष्मण |
तथा अहम् क्रोध संयुक्तो न निवार्यो अस्मि असंशयम् || ३-६४-७६
nityam na pratihanyante sarva bhuuteShu lakShmaNa |
tathaa aham krodha saMyukto na nivaaryo asmi asaMshayam || 3-64-76
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.76
“As to how all the created beings cannot counteract the ageing, dying, fate and the Time at anytime, likewise I too am non-countervailed, when I am coalesced with fury, no doubt about it…” [3-64-76]
Time is the all-transcending factor and none can countervail it. anena mR^ityu jara aadayoH ashakya pratiikaaraa iti suucitam | tathaa ca droNa parvaaNi – na hi eSha brahma caryeNa na veda adhyayanena ca | na kriyaabhiH na ca astreNa mR^ityoH kashcin nivartayate | kruura sarva vinaashaaya kaalo asau na ati vartate | mahaa bhaarata – dk .
पुरा इव मे चारु दतीम् अनिन्दिताम्
दिशन्ति सीताम् यदि न अद्य मैथिलीम् |
सदेव गन्धर्व मनुष्य पन्नगम्
जगत् स शैलम् परिवर्तयामि अहम् || ३-६४-७७
dishanti siitaam yadi na adya maithiliim |
sadeva gandharva manuShya pannagam
jagat sa shailam parivartayaami aham || 3-64-77
ॐ
Show Description: Sloka 3.64.77
“If that princess of Mithila, who has suavely and toothy smiles and who causes irreproachability to my character if only I can have a glimpse of her, is not returned to me in fine fettle as she was when she was with me, then I will countermove whole of this universe together with its gods, immortals, humans, florae and faunas, mountains and waters… and whatnot… [3-64-77] .
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