Chapter 53
Aranya Kanda - Book Of Forest
खम् उत्पतन्तम् तम् दृष्ट्वा मैथिली जनक आत्मजा
दुःखिता परम उद्विग्ना भये महति वर्तिनी
kham utpatantam tam dṛṣṭvā maithilī janaka ātmajā
duḥkhitā parama udvignā bhaye mahati vartinī
SYNONYMS
TRANSLATION
Maithili, the daughter of Janaka, on seeing the skyward flight of Ravana taking her along became highly frantic and remaining in highest dismay she is distraught. [3-53-1]
रोष रोदन ताम्राक्षी भीमाक्षम् राक्षस अधिपम्
रुदती करुणम् सीता ह्रियमाणा इदम् अब्रवीत्
roṣa rodana tāmrākṣī bhīmākṣam rākṣasa adhipam
rudatī karuṇam sītā hriyamāṇā idam abravīt
SYNONYMS
TRANSLATION
Seetha whose eyes turned coppery-red with tears and resentment, still outpouring tears while being abducted she piteously poured this scorn on that gory-eyed demon's chief, Ravana. [3-53-2]
न व्यपत्रपसे नीच कर्मणा अनेन रावण
ज्ञात्वा विरहिताम् यो माम् चोरयित्वा पलायसे
na vyapatrapase nīca karmaṇā anena rāvaṇa
jñātvā virahitām yo mām corayitvā palāyase
SYNONYMS
TRANSLATION
"You knave Ravana, you are taking flight on thieving me after prowling about my loneliness, such as you are, are you not ashamed in the least for this subterfuge. [3-53-3]
त्वया एव नूनम् दुष्टात्मन् भीरुणा हर्तुम् इच्छता
मम अपवाहितो भर्ता मृग रूपेण मायया
tvayā eva nūnam duṣṭātman bhīruṇā hartum icchatā
mama apavāhito bhartā mṛga rūpeṇa māyayā
SYNONYMS
TRANSLATION
"You black-hearted fiend, for sure, you alone sidelined my husband in a trickish guise of Golden Deer wishful to abduct me as you are a coward. [3-53-4]
यो हि माम् उद्यतः त्रातुम् सो अपि अयम् विनिपातितः
गृध्र राजः पुराणो असौ श्वशुरस्य सखा मम
yo hi mām udyataḥ trātum so api ayam vinipātitaḥ
gṛdhra rājaḥ purāṇo asau śvaśurasya sakhā mama
SYNONYMS
TRANSLATION
"Which king of eagles battled against you to bail me out, an old friend of my father-in-law, such as he is he is also felled, indeed. [3-53-5]
PURPORT
SYNONYMS
TRANSLATION
"Ah, truly what an audacious audacity is shown by you... you basely demon... by ear-shattering your great name saying that 'I am Ravana...' I am conquered in a combat - Really? "Am I conquered by you in a combat between my husband and you, wherein you on announcing your name to my husband and truly showing your audacious audacity defeated my husband, and thus triumphing over me - or what? Tell me, you mousy demon... "Unable to conquer my husband in a combat, but able to earbash your name to a lonely woman and abducting her, will this tantamount to your apparently audacious audacity? Thus, I am not really triumphed over by a lowly demon like you... [3-53-6]
ईदृशम् गर्हितम् कर्म कथम् कृत्वा न लज्जसे
स्त्रियाः च हरणम् नीच रहिते च परस्य च
īdṛśam garhitam karma katham kṛtvā na lajjase
striyāḥ ca haraṇam nīca rahite ca parasya ca
SYNONYMS
TRANSLATION
"A woman, that too a lonely one, that too the other man's wife, that too an abduction, but not winning or wooing her... you knave, on your undertaking such a kind of deplorable deed, how unashamed are you? [3-53-7]
PURPORT
कथयिष्यन्ति लोकेषु पुरुषाः कर्म कुत्सितम्
सुनृशंसम् अधर्मिष्ठम् तव शौण्डीर्य मानिनः
kathayiṣyanti lokeṣu puruṣāḥ karma kutsitam
sunṛśaṃsam adharmiṣṭham tava śauṇḍīrya māninaḥ
SYNONYMS
TRANSLATION
"A self-glorifier as you are, this highly inhuman, iniquitous, imputable deed of yours will be recounted by all men in all worlds. [3-53-8]
PURPORT
धिक् ते शौर्यम् च सत्त्वम् च यत् त्वया कथितम् तदा
कुल आक्रोशकरम् लोके धिक् ते चारित्रम् ईदृशम्
dhik te śauryam ca sattvam ca yat tvayā kathitam tadā
kula ākrośakaram loke dhik te cāritram īdṛśam
SYNONYMS
TRANSLATION
"Damn with what you have said then about your might and mettle... damn with this kind of your demeanour which is lamentable to whole of your clan in this world. [3-53-9]
PURPORT
किम् शक्यम् कर्तुम् एवम् हि यत् जवेन एव धावसि
मुहूर्तम् अपि तिष्ठस्व न जीवन् प्रतियास्यसि
kim śakyam kartum evam hi yat javena eva dhāvasi
muhūrtam api tiṣṭhasva na jīvan pratiyāsyasi
SYNONYMS
TRANSLATION
"What can be done possibly... why because you are fleeing very speedily in this way... wait for a moment to ascertain whether you can go back in aliveness... [3-53-10]
PURPORT
न हि चक्षुः पथम् प्राप्य तयोः पार्थिव पुत्रयोः
स सैन्यो अपि समर्थः त्वम् मुहूर्तम् अपि जीवितुम्
na hi cakṣuḥ patham prāpya tayoḥ pārthiva putrayoḥ
sa sainyo api samarthaḥ tvam muhūrtam api jīvitum
SYNONYMS
TRANSLATION
"On your coming into the line of sight of those two princes, even if you are with whole of your military, you will be incapacitated to live on, indeed even for a moment... [3-53-11]
न त्वम् तयोः शर स्पर्शम् सोढुम् शक्तः कथंचन
वने प्रज्वलितस्य इव स्पर्शम् अग्नेः विहंगमः
na tvam tayoḥ śara sparśam soḍhum śaktaḥ kathaṃcana
vane prajvalitasya iva sparśam agneḥ vihaṃgamaḥ
SYNONYMS
TRANSLATION
"Anywise it will be incapable of you to endure the touch of their arrows, as with a bird that cannot endure the overly flaring up wildfire in a forest. [3-53-12]
PURPORT
साधु कृत्वा आत्मनः पथ्यम् साधु माम् मुंच रावण
मत् प्रधर्षण रुष्टो हि भ्रात्रा सह पतिः मम
sādhu kṛtvā ātmanaḥ pathyam sādhu mām muṃca rāvaṇa
mat pradharṣaṇa ruṣṭo hi bhrātrā saha patiḥ mama
SYNONYMS
TRANSLATION
"Oh, Ravana, positively contemplate in your soul and politely release me... and if you do not release me, indeed by the rancour of insulting me, my husband along with his brother devises your doom... [3-53-13, 14a]
PURPORT
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TRANSLATION
"You rogue! By which endeavour you are desirous of thieving me under duress, that endeavour of yours behoves absurd. [3-53-14b, 15a]
PURPORT
न हि अहम् तम् अपश्यन्ती भर्तारम् विबुध उपमम्
na hi aham tam apaśyantī bhartāram vibudha upamam
SYNONYMS
TRANSLATION
"Though I am in aliveness now, but on my going under the control of an enemy and on unseeing godlike husband of mine I am indeed unenthused to bear up my lives for a long. [3-53-15]
PURPORT
SYNONYMS
TRANSLATION
"Definitely and completely unanticipated in your heart are either that which is worthwhile or that which is beneficial to you, as mortals undertake a quirkily behaviour at the time of their death... "At the time of their death mortals wish to enjoy noxious and non-recuperative foods, thus definitely and completely unanticipated in your heart are either nontoxic or beneficial nourishments for your well-being. [3-53-16b, 17a]
PURPORT
मुमूर्षूणाम् तु सर्वेषाम् यत् पथ्यम् तत् न रोचते
mumūrṣūṇām tu sarveṣām yat pathyam tat na rocate
SYNONYMS
TRANSLATION
"But which is recuperative that is unpalatable to all of the death-rattlers, and indeed, I behold you as one around whose throat the noose of Time is looped. [3-53-17b, 18a]
SYNONYMS
TRANSLATION
"As you are dauntless in this daunting situation as for yourself, oh, Decahedral demon, indeed it is clear that you are clearly fantasising the ill-omened golden trees all around. [3-53-18b, 19a]
SYNONYMS
TRANSLATION
"Oh, Ravana, you will see the ghastly River Vaitarani which will be tumultuously streaming with blood streams, also thus you will see the grisly sword-leaved-forests in hell. [3-53-19b, 20a]
SYNONYMS
TRANSLATION
"You will see silk-cotton trees flowered with molten gold, shrouded with lapis gemlike melting leaves, and enshrouded with sharp irony thorns in hell. [3-53-20b, 21a]
PURPORT
न हि त्वम् ईदृशम् कृत्वा तस्य अलीकम् महात्मनः
na hi tvam īdṛśam kṛtvā tasya alīkam mahātmanaḥ
SYNONYMS
TRANSLATION
"Oh, unmerciful one, on doing this kind of misdeed to that noble-souled Rama you are incapable to bear up life for a long time like the one who quaffed venom. [3-53-21b, 22a]
PURPORT
SYNONYMS
TRANSLATION
"You are bound by the unpreventable lasso of the Time, oh, Ravana, on going where you will get complacency from that uncompromising husband of mine? [3-53-22b, 23a]
PURPORT
SYNONYMS
TRANSLATION
"By whom fourteen thousand demons are killed in war just within a minute, single-handedly without any help from his brother, how then that brave and mighty Raghava, an expert in all kinds of missiles, will not eliminate you, the stealer of his chosen wife, with his mordant arrows?" Thus Seetha poured forth her ire at Ravana. [3-53-23b, 24, 25a]
एतत् च अन्यत् च परुषम् वैदेही रावण अंक गा
भय शोक समाविष्टा करुणम् विललाप ह
etat ca anyat ca paruṣam vaidehī rāvaṇa aṃka gā
bhaya śoka samāviṣṭā karuṇam vilalāpa ha
SYNONYMS
TRANSLATION
On saying this much and other exacting words, Vaidehi who has gone onto the flank of Ravana, indeed lamented lamentably as her dismay is coalesced with her distress. [3-53-25b, c]
इति वाल्मीकि रामायणे आदि काव्ये अरण्य काण्डे त्रि पंचाशः सर्गः
iti vālmīki rāmāyaṇe ādi kāvye araṇya kāṇḍe tri paṃcāśaḥ sargaḥ
SYNONYMS
TRANSLATION
She who is highly agonised and weeping before talking, a ranter who ranted much, a resentful lady who has come of age, and a pitiable whirler in the hands of demon whose whirligig has transformed into spasmodic jerking of her body for deliverance from that sinner, and in that way that sinner stole that princess Seetha. [3-53-26]