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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇam • Kāṇḍa 5 (Sundarakāṇḍa) • Sarga 31

Sundarakāṇḍa Sarga 31

सुन्दरकाण्डम् • सर्गः 31

Sundarakāṇḍa Sarga 31 of the classical Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa with 27 verses.

Total: 27 Verses • Citations: VR 5.31.1–27 • 175 Lexicon Terms
VR 5.31.1 अनुष्टुप्
तामब्रवीन्महातेजा हनूमान्मारुतात्मजः । शिरस्यञ्जलिमाधाय सीतां मधुरया गिरा ॥
tāmabravīnmahātejā hanūmānmārutātmajaḥ | śirasyañjalimādhāya sītāṃ madhurayā girā ||
English Translation
Thereupon coming down from the tree, Hanumān, the highly effulgent son of Wind, having a coral-red countenance and attired in a humble guise, approached Sītā and joining reverentially his palms, addressed her with the following sweet words.
VR 5.31.2 अनुष्टुप्
का नु पद्मपलाशाक्षी क्लिष्टकौशेयवासिनी । द्रुमस्य शाखामालम्ब्य तिष्ठसि त्वमनिन्दिता ॥
kā nu padmapalāśākṣī kliṣṭakauśeyavāsinī | drumasya śākhāmālambya tiṣṭhasi tvamaninditā ||
English Translation
Who are you, O you having eyes like lotus petals and wearing a soiled silken cloth, who are waiting there holding a branch of the tree? Why are the tears of sorrow flowing from your eyes like to drops of water falling from lotus petals?
VR 5.31.3 अनुष्टुप्
किमर्थं तव नेत्राभ्यां वारि स्रवति शोकजम् । पुण्डरीकपलाशाभ्यां विप्रकीर्णमिवोदकम् ॥
kimarthaṃ tava netrābhyāṃ vāri sravati śokajam | puṇḍarīkapalāśābhyāṃ viprakīrṇamivodakam ||
English Translation
Who are you, O you having eyes like lotus petals and wearing a soiled silken cloth, who are waiting there holding a branch of the tree? Why are the tears of sorrow flowing from your eyes like to drops of water falling from lotus petals?
VR 5.31.4 अनुष्टुप्
सुराणामसुराणां च नागगन्धर्वरक्षसाम् । यक्षाणां किंनराणां च का त्वं भवसि शोभने ॥
surāṇāmasurāṇāṃ ca nāgagandharvarakṣasām | yakṣāṇāṃ kiṃnarāṇāṃ ca kā tvaṃ bhavasi śobhane ||
English Translation
Who are you, O most fair of face, among the celestials, Asuras, Nāgas, Gandharvas, Rāks asas, and Yaksas and Kinnaras? Do the Rudra's (The Rudras are manifestations of Śiva) claim your birth O you fair damsel,? Or the swift gods who ride the storm? Or the Vasus? (A kind of demi-gods of whom six are enumerated viz., Dhava, Druva. Soma or the Moon, Visnu, Anila or wind, Anala or fire, Prabhusa and Prabhava) You appear to me as of a celestial race.
VR 5.31.5 अनुष्टुप्
का त्वं भवसि रुद्राणां मरुतां वा वरानने । वसूनां वा वरारोहे देवता प्रतिभासि मे ॥
kā tvaṃ bhavasi rudrāṇāṃ marutāṃ vā varānane | vasūnāṃ vā varārohe devatā pratibhāsi me ||
English Translation
Who are you, O most fair of face, among the celestials, Asuras, Nāgas, Gandharvas, Rāks asas, and Yaksas and Kinnaras? Do the Rudra's (The Rudras are manifestations of Śiva) claim your birth O you fair damsel,? Or the swift gods who ride the storm? Or the Vasus? (A kind of demi-gods of whom six are enumerated viz., Dhava, Druva. Soma or the Moon, Visnu, Anila or wind, Anala or fire, Prabhusa and Prabhava) You appear to me as of a celestial race.
VR 5.31.6 अनुष्टुप्
किं नु चन्द्रमसा हीना पतिता विबुधालयात् । रोहिणी ज्योतिषां श्रेष्ठा श्रेष्ठा सर्वगुणान्विता ॥
kiṃ nu candramasā hīnā patitā vibudhālayāt | rohiṇī jyotiṣāṃ śreṣṭhā śreṣṭhā sarvaguṇānvitā ||
English Translation
Are you Rohiņā, the best and most accomplished of the stars, who, left from the Moon, has fallen down from the abode of the celestials?
VR 5.31.7 अनुष्टुप्
कोपाद्वा यदि वा मोहाद्भर्तारमसितेक्षणा । वसिष्ठं कोपयित्वा त्वं नासि कल्याण्यरुन्धती ॥
kopādvā yadi vā mohādbhartāramasitekṣaṇā | vasiṣṭhaṃ kopayitvā tvaṃ nāsi kalyāṇyarundhatī ||
English Translation
Who are you O blessed dame, O you having blameless eyes? Are you, O lotus-eyed damsel, the blessed Arundhuti, who has fled in wrath or jealous pride form the side of her lord (Vasistha)?
VR 5.31.8 अनुष्टुप्
को नौ पुत्रः पिता भ्रात भर्ता वा ते सुमध्यमे । अस्माल्लोकादमुं लोकं गतं त्वमनुशोचसि ॥
ko nau putraḥ pitā bhrāta bhartā vā te sumadhyame | asmāllokādamuṃ lokaṃ gataṃ tvamanuśocasi ||
English Translation
Or O lovely damsel, who is the son, father, brother or husband gone from this world for whom you are weeping?
VR 5.31.9 अनुष्टुप्
व्यञ्जनानि हि ते यानि लक्षणानि च लक्षये । महिषी भूमिपालस्य राजकन्यासि मे मता ॥
vyañjanāni hi te yāni lakṣaṇāni ca lakṣaye | mahiṣī bhūmipālasya rājakanyāsi me matā ||
English Translation
Yet by your tears and sighs, by the earth you are treading and by calling on a monarch's name it appears that you are not a celestial. (The celestials never shed tears nor touch the ground when they walk.) But from the marks on your person it appear that you are either the consort or the daughter of a king.
VR 5.31.10 अनुष्टुप्
रावणेन जनस्थानाद्बलादपहृता यदि । सीता त्वमसि भद्रं ते तन्ममाचक्ष्व पृच्छतः ॥
rāvaṇena janasthānādbalādapahṛtā yadi | sītā tvamasi bhadraṃ te tanmamācakṣva pṛcchataḥ ||
English Translation
Are you that Sītā, I do ask you, who had been stolen and borne away by Rāvana from Janasthāna? May good betide you!
VR 5.31.11 अनुष्टुप्
सा तस्य वचनं श्रुत्वा रामकीर्तनहर्षिता । उवाच वाक्यं वैदेही हनूमन्तं द्रुमाश्रितम् ॥
sā tasya vacanaṃ śrutvā rāmakīrtanaharṣitā | uvāca vākyaṃ vaidehī hanūmantaṃ drumāśritam ||
English Translation
Hearing those words of Hanumān and greatly delighted at Rāma's name, Vaidehī spoke to him.
VR 5.31.12 अनुष्टुप्
दुहिता जनकस्याहं वैदेहस्य महात्मनः । सीता च नाम नाम्नाहं भार्या रामस्य धीमतः ॥
duhitā janakasyāhaṃ vaidehasya mahātmanaḥ | sītā ca nāma nāmnāhaṃ bhāryā rāmasya dhīmataḥ ||
English Translation
"I am daughter of the great soul, Janaka, king of Videha, known as Sita. I am the wife of that sagacious Rama.
VR 5.31.13 अनुष्टुप्
समा द्वादश तत्राहं राघवस्य निवेशने । भुञ्जाना मानुषान्भोगान्सर्वकामसमृद्धिनी ॥
samā dvādaśa tatrāhaṃ rāghavasya niveśane | bhuñjānā mānuṣānbhogānsarvakāmasamṛddhinī ||
English Translation
I lived twelve years in Rāghava's abode, enjoying every earthly comfort and satisfying every desire.
VR 5.31.14 अनुष्टुप्
ततस्त्रयोदशे वर्षे राज्येनेक्ष्वाकुनन्दनम् । अभिषेचयितुं राजा सोपाध्यायः प्रचक्रमे ॥
tatastrayodaśe varṣe rājyenekṣvākunandanam | abhiṣecayituṃ rājā sopādhyāyaḥ pracakrame ||
English Translation
And at the beginning of the thirteenth year the king, advised by his priest, arranged for the installation of the descendant of Ikşvākus (Rāma) on the throne.
VR 5.31.15 अनुष्टुप्
तस्मिन्संभ्रियमाणे तु राघवस्याभिषेचने । कैकेयी नाम भर्तारं देवी वचनमब्रवीत् ॥
tasminsaṃbhriyamāṇe tu rāghavasyābhiṣecane | kaikeyī nāma bhartāraṃ devī vacanamabravīt ||
English Translation
And while the articles for the installation were being collected, the queen Kaikeyi addressed her lord saying.
VR 5.31.16 अनुष्टुप्
न पिबेयं न खादेयं प्रत्यहं मम भोजनम् । एष मे जीवितस्यान्तो रामो यद्यभिषिच्यते ॥
na pibeyaṃ na khādeyaṃ pratyahaṃ mama bhojanam | eṣa me jīvitasyānto rāmo yadyabhiṣicyate ||
English Translation
I shall not drink or eat for days and this shall be the end of my existence if Räma be installed.
VR 5.31.17 अनुष्टुप्
यत्तदुक्तं त्वया वाक्यं प्रीत्या नृपतिसत्तम । तच्चेन्न वितथं कार्यं वनं गच्छतु राघवः ॥
yattaduktaṃ tvayā vākyaṃ prītyā nṛpatisattama | taccenna vitathaṃ kāryaṃ vanaṃ gacchatu rāghavaḥ ||
English Translation
If you do not wish to falsify the vow (This refers to the vow which Dasaratha made to Kaikeyſ at the time of the war going on between the celestials and the Asuras) you made to me,O best of kings, let Rāma then repair to the forest.
VR 5.31.18 अनुष्टुप्
स राजा सत्यवाग्देव्या वरदानमनुस्मरन् । मुमोह वचनं श्रुत्वा कैकेय्याः क्रूरमप्रियम् ॥
sa rājā satyavāgdevyā varadānamanusmaran | mumoha vacanaṃ śrutvā kaikeyyāḥ krūramapriyam ||
English Translation
The monarch was truthful and remembering his vow and hearing the unpleasant and vile words of Kaikeyi lost himself (in grief).
VR 5.31.19 अनुष्टुप्
ततस्तु स्थविरो राजा सत्यधर्मे व्यवस्थितः । ज्येष्ठं यशस्विनं पुत्रं रुदन्राज्यमयाचत ॥
tatastu sthaviro rājā satyadharme vyavasthitaḥ | jyeṣṭhaṃ yaśasvinaṃ putraṃ rudanrājyamayācata ||
English Translation
Thereupon the old king abiding by truth, weeping, begged of his eldest son, the kingdom.
VR 5.31.20 अनुष्टुप्
स पितुर्वचनं श्रीमानभिषेकात्परं प्रियम् । मनसा पूर्वमासाद्य वाचा प्रतिगृहीतवान् ॥
sa piturvacanaṃ śrīmānabhiṣekātparaṃ priyam | manasā pūrvamāsādya vācā pratigṛhītavān ||
English Translation
The graceful Räma killed his sire's command more than the installation, and resolving within him, promised to obey his words.
VR 5.31.21 अनुष्टुप्
दद्यान्न प्रतिगृह्णीयान्न ब्रूयत्किंचिदप्रियम् । अपि जीवितहेतोर्हि रामः सत्यपराक्रमः ॥
dadyānna pratigṛhṇīyānna brūyatkiṃcidapriyam | api jīvitahetorhi rāmaḥ satyaparākramaḥ ||
English Translation
Rāma, having truth for his prowess, never, for his life, takes back what her gives, never speaks an untruth and always speaks truth.
VR 5.31.22 अनुष्टुप्
स विहायोत्तरीयाणि महार्हाणि महायशाः । विसृज्य मनसा राज्यं जनन्यै मां समादिशत् ॥
sa vihāyottarīyāṇi mahārhāṇi mahāyaśāḥ | visṛjya manasā rājyaṃ jananyai māṃ samādiśat ||
English Translation
Leaving aside his costly attire, the highly glorious (Rāma) renounced with all his heart the kingdom and gave me over to his mother.
VR 5.31.23 अनुष्टुप्
साहं तस्याग्रतस्तूर्णं प्रस्थिता वनचारिणी । न हि मे तेन हीनाया वासः स्वर्गेऽपि रोचते ॥
sāhaṃ tasyāgratastūrṇaṃ prasthitā vanacāriṇī | na hi me tena hīnāyā vāsaḥ svarge'pi rocate ||
English Translation
But myself wearing the garb of an ascetic, repaired speedily before him. Separated from him, I do not like to live even in the celestial region.
VR 5.31.24 अनुष्टुप्
प्रागेव तु महाभागः सौमित्रिर्मित्रनन्दनः । पूर्वजस्यानुयात्रार्थे द्रुमचीरैरलंकृतः ॥
prāgeva tu mahābhāgaḥ saumitrirmitranandanaḥ | pūrvajasyānuyātrārthe drumacīrairalaṃkṛtaḥ ||
English Translation
The great son of Sumitrā, the enhancer of friends' joys, to follow his elder brother, dressed himself in bark and kusa.
VR 5.31.25 अनुष्टुप्
ते वयं भर्तुरादेशं बहु मान्यदृढव्रताः । प्रविष्टाः स्म पुराद्दृष्टं वनं गम्भीरदर्शनम् ॥
te vayaṃ bharturādeśaṃ bahu mānyadṛḍhavratāḥ | praviṣṭāḥ sma purāddṛṣṭaṃ vanaṃ gambhīradarśanam ||
English Translation
Thus abiding by our sire's behest, and taking firm vows we entered a dreary forest never seen before.
VR 5.31.26 अनुष्टुप्
वसतो दण्डकारण्ये तस्याहममितौजसः । रक्षसापहृता भार्या रावणेन दुरात्मना ॥
vasato daṇḍakāraṇye tasyāhamamitaujasaḥ | rakṣasāpahṛtā bhāryā rāvaṇena durātmanā ||
English Translation
While that one, of unmitigated effulgence was thus living in the forest of Dandaka, I, his consort, was stolen by the vicious-souled Rākşasa—Rāvaņa.
VR 5.31.27 अनुष्टुप्
द्वौ मासौ तेन मे कालो जीवितानुग्रहः कृतः । ऊर्ध्वं द्वाभ्यां तु मासाभ्यां ततस्त्यक्ष्यामि जीवितम् ॥
dvau māsau tena me kālo jīvitānugrahaḥ kṛtaḥ | ūrdhvaṃ dvābhyāṃ tu māsābhyāṃ tatastyakṣyāmi jīvitam ||
English Translation
He has kindly allowed me two months respite after which I shall be slain.
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