Ramayana Condensed in the Poet's Own Words /271

KISHKINDHAKANDA
 
त्वं तु धर्ममविज्ञाय केवलं रोषमास्थितः ।

प्रदूषयसि मां धर्मे पितृपपैतामहे स्थितम् ॥
 

But you, not knowing dharma and being

only angry, blame me who am rooted in

the traditional dharma (the heritage from

my father and grandfather)."
 

 
एवमुक्तस्तु रामेण वाली प्रव्यथितो भृशम् ।

न दोषषं राघवे दध्यौ धर्मेऽधिगतनिश्चयः ॥
 
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Being thus addressed by Rama and be-

coming highly distressed, Vali did not

conceive of any fault in Raghava, having

understood dharma correctly.
 

 
प्रत्युवाच ततो रामं प्राञ्जलिर्वानरेश्वरः ॥
 

Then the lord of the monkeys replied

with folded hands to Rama:
 

 
यत्त्वमात्थ नरश्रेष्ठठं तदेवं नात्र संशयः ॥
 

"O best of men, what you have said is

true indeed. There is no doubt of this.
 

 
यदयुक्तं मया पूर्ववं प्रमादादुक्तमप्रियम् ।

तत्रापि खलु मे दोषं कर्तुं नार्हसि राघव ॥