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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇam • Kāṇḍa 5 (Sundarakāṇḍa) • Sarga 17

Sundarakāṇḍa Sarga 17

सुन्दरकाण्डम् • सर्गः 17

Sundarakāṇḍa Sarga 17 of the classical Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa with 21 verses.

Total: 21 Verses • Citations: VR 5.17.1–21 • 175 Lexicon Terms
VR 5.17.1 अनुष्टुप्
तस्मिन्नेव ततः काले राजपुत्री त्वनिन्दिता । रूपयौवनसंपन्नं भूषणोत्तमभूषितम् ॥
tasminneva tataḥ kāle rājaputrī tvaninditā | rūpayauvanasaṃpannaṃ bhūṣaṇottamabhūṣitam ||
English Translation
Thereupon beholding Răvaņa-the lord of Rākṣasas, gifted with youth and beauty and adorned with an excellent dress, that excellent and blameless daughter of a king, Vaidehī, trembled like to a plantain tree shaken by the wind.
VR 5.17.2 अनुष्टुप्
ततो दृष्ट्वैव वैदेही रावणं राक्षसाधिपम् । प्रावेपत वरारोहा प्रवाते कदली यथा ॥
tato dṛṣṭvaiva vaidehī rāvaṇaṃ rākṣasādhipam | prāvepata varārohā pravāte kadalī yathā ||
English Translation
Thereupon beholding Răvaņa-the lord of Rākṣasas, gifted with youth and beauty and adorned with an excellent dress, that excellent and blameless daughter of a king, Vaidehī, trembled like to a plantain tree shaken by the wind.
VR 5.17.3 अनुष्टुप्
ऊरुभ्यामुदरं छाद्य बाहुभ्यां च पयोधरौ । उपविष्टा विशालाक्षी रुदन्ती वरवर्णिनी ॥
ūrubhyāmudaraṃ chādya bāhubhyāṃ ca payodharau | upaviṣṭā viśālākṣī rudantī varavarṇinī ||
English Translation
Having covered her belly with her legs and her breast with her hands, that one, having charming colour and expansive eyes, cried aloud.
VR 5.17.4 अनुष्टुप्
दशग्रीवस्तु वैदेहीं रक्षितां राक्षसीगणैः । ददर्श दीनां दुःखार्तं नावं सन्नामिवार्णवे ॥
daśagrīvastu vaidehīṃ rakṣitāṃ rākṣasīgaṇaiḥ | dadarśa dīnāṃ duḥkhārtaṃ nāvaṃ sannāmivārṇave ||
English Translation
Arriving there the Ten-necked one beheld Vaidehi, guarded by the Raksasis, poorly, racked with grief like to a boat sunk in an ocean. Subject to hard penances, she, seated on the bare earth, appeared like a branch of a tree fallen on the ground
VR 5.17.5 उपजातिः
असंवृतायामासीनां धरण्यां संशितव्रताम् । छिन्नां प्रपतितां भूमौ शाखामिव वनस्पतेः । मलमण्डनदिग्धाङ्गीं मण्डनार्हाममण्डिताम् ॥
asaṃvṛtāyāmāsīnāṃ dharaṇyāṃ saṃśitavratām | chinnāṃ prapatitāṃ bhūmau śākhāmiva vanaspateḥ | malamaṇḍanadigdhāṅgīṃ maṇḍanārhāmamaṇḍitām ||
English Translation
She looked woeful seated on the bare earth like the broken branch of a tree cut and fallen down on the ground.
VR 5.17.6 अनुष्टुप्
समीपं राजसिंहस्य रामस्य विदितात्मनः । संकल्पहयसंयुक्तैर्यान्तीमिव मनोरथैः ॥
samīpaṃ rājasiṃhasya rāmasya viditātmanaḥ | saṃkalpahayasaṃyuktairyāntīmiva manorathaiḥ ||
English Translation
She was proceeding as it were to that lion of a king-Rāma, knowing his own-self, in her mind's chariot drawn by the horses of resolution.
VR 5.17.7 अनुष्टुप्
शुष्यन्तीं रुदतीमेकां ध्यानशोकपरायणाम् । दुःखस्यान्तमपश्यन्तीं रामां राममनुव्रताम् ॥
śuṣyantīṃ rudatīmekāṃ dhyānaśokaparāyaṇām | duḥkhasyāntamapaśyantīṃ rāmāṃ rāmamanuvratām ||
English Translation
And not beholding the end of her grief, that damsel, attached to Rāma, was keeping alone and reduced to a skeleton and overwhelmed with anxious thoughts and grief.
VR 5.17.8 अनुष्टुप्
वेष्टमानामथाविष्टां पन्नगेन्द्रवधूमिव । धूप्यमानां ग्रहेणेव रोहिणीं धूमकेतुना ॥
veṣṭamānāmathāviṣṭāṃ pannagendravadhūmiva | dhūpyamānāṃ graheṇeva rohiṇīṃ dhūmaketunā ||
English Translation
She was troubled like to the daughter-in-law of the lord of serpents, of impeded course by means of incantations, and stricken with grief like to Rohini, possessed by Ketu.
VR 5.17.9 अनुष्टुप्
वृत्तशीले कुले जातामाचारवति धार्मिके । पुनः संस्कारमापन्नां जातमिव च दुष्कुले ॥
vṛttaśīle kule jātāmācāravati dhārmike | punaḥ saṃskāramāpannāṃ jātamiva ca duṣkule ||
English Translation
And although born in a pious family, well behaved and good-natured and married according to their rites, she appeared to have been sprung form a low race and wedded according to their base ceremonials.
VR 5.17.10 अनुष्टुप्
सन्नामिव महाकीर्तिं श्रद्धामिव विमानिताम् । प्रज्ञामिव परिक्षीणामाशां प्रतिहतामिव ॥
sannāmiva mahākīrtiṃ śraddhāmiva vimānitām | prajñāmiva parikṣīṇāmāśāṃ pratihatāmiva ||
English Translation
She was like great fame grown dim, faith slighted, worship meddled and hope frustrated.(Note: Sita's condition is being compared with abstract concepts such as fame, faith, reverence and hope which are hit by reverses in fate. She was the personification of all such suffering.)
VR 5.17.11 अनुष्टुप्
आयतीमिव विध्वस्तामाज्ञां प्रतिहतामिव । दीप्तामिव दिशं काले पूजामपहृतामिव ॥
āyatīmiva vidhvastāmājñāṃ pratihatāmiva | dīptāmiva diśaṃ kāle pūjāmapahṛtāmiva ||
English Translation
She was like a prospect blasted, command flouted, entire direction set on flames at the time of catastrophe and articles of worship abducted by evil forces at the sacrificial ceremony.
VR 5.17.12 अनुष्टुप्
पद्मिनीमिव विध्वस्तां हतशूरां चमूमिव । प्रभामिव तपोध्वस्तामुपक्षीणामिवापगाम् ॥
padminīmiva vidhvastāṃ hataśūrāṃ camūmiva | prabhāmiva tapodhvastāmupakṣīṇāmivāpagām ||
English Translation
She was like a lotuscreeper blighted, an army with its gallant warriors killed, radiance of light blocked by darkness and a stream run dry.
VR 5.17.13 अनुष्टुप्
वेदीमिव परामृष्टां शान्तामग्निशिखामिव । पौर्णमासीमिव निशां राहुग्रस्तेन्दुमण्डलाम् ॥
vedīmiva parāmṛṣṭāṃ śāntāmagniśikhāmiva | paurṇamāsīmiva niśāṃ rāhugrastendumaṇḍalām ||
English Translation
(She was) like the altar of worship defiled, blazing fire extinguished, and the Moon eclipsed by Rahu in the full moon night.
VR 5.17.14 अनुष्टुप्
उत्कृष्टपर्णकमलां वित्रासितविहंगमाम् । हस्तिहस्तपरामृष्टामाकुलां पद्मिनीमिव ॥
utkṛṣṭaparṇakamalāṃ vitrāsitavihaṃgamām | hastihastaparāmṛṣṭāmākulāṃ padminīmiva ||
English Translation
(She appeared) like a lotuspond the excellent leaves of whose lotuses surrounded by frightened birds are destroyed by the trunks of elephants.
VR 5.17.15 अनुष्टुप्
पतिशोकातुरां शुष्कां नदीं विस्रावितामिव । परया मृजया हीनां कृष्णपक्षे निशामिव ॥
patiśokāturāṃ śuṣkāṃ nadīṃ visrāvitāmiva | parayā mṛjayā hīnāṃ kṛṣṇapakṣe niśāmiva ||
English Translation
And her grace greatly famished by the absence of her husband she appeared like a river whose liquid contents were dried up. And not cleaning her limbs she appeared like a dark night.
VR 5.17.16 अनुष्टुप्
सुकुमारीं सुजाताङ्गीं रत्नगर्भगृहोचिताम् । तप्यमानामिवोष्णेन मृणालीमचिरोद्धृताम् ॥
sukumārīṃ sujātāṅgīṃ ratnagarbhagṛhocitām | tapyamānāmivoṣṇena mṛṇālīmaciroddhṛtām ||
English Translation
That one of graceful limbs, tender and worthy of living in a jewelled abode, being stricken with grief, seemed like a dried lotus-stalk just extracted from its bed.
VR 5.17.17 अनुष्टुप्
गृहीतामालितां स्तम्भे यूथपेन विनाकृताम् । निःश्वसन्तीं सुदुःखार्तां गजराजवधूमिव ॥
gṛhītāmālitāṃ stambhe yūthapena vinākṛtām | niḥśvasantīṃ suduḥkhārtāṃ gajarājavadhūmiva ||
English Translation
And she like the daughter-in-law of the lord of elephants, caught, separated from her band and tied to a pillar, was overwhelmed with grief and was sighing again and again.
VR 5.17.18 अनुष्टुप्
एकया दीर्घया वेण्या शोभमानामयत्नतः । नीलया नीरदापाये वनराज्या महीमिव ॥
ekayā dīrghayā veṇyā śobhamānāmayatnataḥ | nīlayā nīradāpāye vanarājyā mahīmiva ||
English Translation
Her braid of long hair resembling a black serpent falling on her back it appeared as if the Earth was filled with dark-blue forests on the disappearance of the rains.
VR 5.17.19 अनुष्टुप्
उपवासेन शोकेन ध्यानेन च भयेन च । परिक्षीणां कृशां दीनामल्पाहारां तपोधनाम् ॥
upavāsena śokena dhyānena ca bhayena ca | parikṣīṇāṃ kṛśāṃ dīnāmalpāhārāṃ tapodhanām ||
English Translation
With fasts and grief, anxiety and fear, she was greatly weakened and reduced and gave up cating and took recourse to asceticism only.
VR 5.17.20 अनुष्टुप्
आयाचमानां दुःखार्तां प्राञ्जलिं देवतामिव । भावेन रघुमुख्यस्य दशग्रीवपराभवम् ॥
āyācamānāṃ duḥkhārtāṃ prāñjaliṃ devatāmiva | bhāvena raghumukhyasya daśagrīvaparābhavam ||
English Translation
Stricken with grief, she seemed to have been offering prayers to that foremost of Raghus for the destruction of the Ten-necked one, like those to the deities with folded hands.
VR 5.17.21 वंशस्थम्
समीक्षमाणां रुदतीमनिन्दितां; सुपक्ष्मताम्रायतशुक्ललोचनाम् । अनुव्रतां राममतीव मैथिलीं; प्रलोभयामास वधाय रावणः ॥
samīkṣamāṇāṃ rudatīmaninditāṃ; supakṣmatāmrāyataśuklalocanām | anuvratāṃ rāmamatīva maithilīṃ; pralobhayāmāsa vadhāya rāvaṇaḥ ||
English Translation
Beholding that blameless Maithili, having expansive eyes with beautiful eye lashes, greatly attached to Rāma, and weeping Rāvana tempted her for his own destruction.
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