2023-02-19 12:14:09 by ambuda-bot
This page has not been fully proofread.
165
of being done though it looks worthy, and
is not beneficial to me though it looks full
of benefit.
AYODHYAKANDA
सत्यमेवानृशंसं च राजवृत्तं सनातनम् ।
तस्मात्सत्यात्मकं राज्यं सत्ये लोकः प्रतिष्ठितः ॥
The principle of a king, of the nature
of Pity, has through eternity been Truth.
Therefore it is that sovereignty is Truth
itself ; and the world too is founded
on Truth.
सोऽहं पितुर्नियोगं तु किमर्थं नानुपालये ।
सत्यप्रतिथवस्सत्यं सत्येन समयीकृतः ॥
Why then shall I, knowing these things,
not fulfil my father's command? He was
truthful and righteous. For truth's sake
I have been enjoined to fulfil the truth.
क्रुद्धमाशाय रामं तु वसिष्ठः प्रत्युवाच ह ॥
Knowing Rama to have been enraged,
Vasishtha replied him thus:
जाबालिरपि जानीते लोकस्यास्य गतागतिम् ।
निवर्तयितुकामस्तु त्वामेतद्वाक्यमुक्तवान् ॥
"Jabali also knows where beings go
to from this world and how they return
of being done though it looks worthy, and
is not beneficial to me though it looks full
of benefit.
AYODHYAKANDA
सत्यमेवानृशंसं च राजवृत्तं सनातनम् ।
तस्मात्सत्यात्मकं राज्यं सत्ये लोकः प्रतिष्ठितः ॥
The principle of a king, of the nature
of Pity, has through eternity been Truth.
Therefore it is that sovereignty is Truth
itself ; and the world too is founded
on Truth.
सोऽहं पितुर्नियोगं तु किमर्थं नानुपालये ।
सत्यप्रतिथवस्सत्यं सत्येन समयीकृतः ॥
Why then shall I, knowing these things,
not fulfil my father's command? He was
truthful and righteous. For truth's sake
I have been enjoined to fulfil the truth.
क्रुद्धमाशाय रामं तु वसिष्ठः प्रत्युवाच ह ॥
Knowing Rama to have been enraged,
Vasishtha replied him thus:
जाबालिरपि जानीते लोकस्यास्य गतागतिम् ।
निवर्तयितुकामस्तु त्वामेतद्वाक्यमुक्तवान् ॥
"Jabali also knows where beings go
to from this world and how they return