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THE RAMAYANA
All these subjects and the widowed
mothers have come to you. You must
be gracious to them.
सान्त्विता मामिका माता दत्तं राज्यमिदं मम ।
तद्ददामि तवैवाहं भुङ्क्ष्व राज्यमकण्टकम् ॥
My mother was
kingdom given to me.
dom back to you.
rid of all obstacles.
appeased and this
I give that king-
Enjoy the kingdom
कैकेयीं मां च तातं च सुहृदो बान्धवांश्च नः ।
पौरजानपदान् सर्वांस्त्रातु सर्वमिदं भवान् ॥
You should protect all of us, Kaikeyi,
myself, our father, all our friends and
relations and all the citizens as well as
country-folk.
क चारण्यं क्व च क्षात्रं क नटाः क च पालनम् ।
ईदृशं व्याहतं कर्म न भवान् कर्तुमर्हति ॥
Where is the forest and where indeed
the duty of a Kshattriya? Where are
matted locks and where indeed is the
duty of protection ? You should not
follow such a contradictory course of
action.
THE RAMAYANA
All these subjects and the widowed
mothers have come to you. You must
be gracious to them.
सान्त्विता मामिका माता दत्तं राज्यमिदं मम ।
तद्ददामि तवैवाहं भुङ्क्ष्व राज्यमकण्टकम् ॥
My mother was
kingdom given to me.
dom back to you.
rid of all obstacles.
appeased and this
I give that king-
Enjoy the kingdom
कैकेयीं मां च तातं च सुहृदो बान्धवांश्च नः ।
पौरजानपदान् सर्वांस्त्रातु सर्वमिदं भवान् ॥
You should protect all of us, Kaikeyi,
myself, our father, all our friends and
relations and all the citizens as well as
country-folk.
क चारण्यं क्व च क्षात्रं क नटाः क च पालनम् ।
ईदृशं व्याहतं कर्म न भवान् कर्तुमर्हति ॥
Where is the forest and where indeed
the duty of a Kshattriya? Where are
matted locks and where indeed is the
duty of protection ? You should not
follow such a contradictory course of
action.