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ARANYAKANDA
195
Seeing the rare exploit of Rama,
Surpanakha being highly agitated went to
Lanka, protected by Ravana.
रावणं शत्रुहन्तारं राक्षसी भयविह्वला ।
अमात्यमध्ये संक्रुद्धा परुषं वाक्यमब्रवीत् ॥
The demoness, angry and agitated by
fear, spoke these harsh words to Ravana
the destroyer of foes, seated amidst his
ministers :
सक्तं ग्राम्येषु भोगेषु कामवृत्तं महीपतिम् ।
लुब्धं न बहु मन्यन्ते श्मशानाग्निमिव प्रजाः ॥
"The subjects do not care much for
that king who is addicted to vulgar
pleasures, does what he likes and is miserly,
even as they do not care for the fire in
the burning ground.
अयुक्तचारं मन्ये त्वां प्राकृतैः सचिवैर्वृतम् ।
स्वजनं तु जनस्थाने हृतं यो नावबुध्यसे ।
I consider you without spies and
surrounded by vulgar ministers,
as you do
not know the slaughter of
your own
people at Janasthana.
195
Seeing the rare exploit of Rama,
Surpanakha being highly agitated went to
Lanka, protected by Ravana.
रावणं शत्रुहन्तारं राक्षसी भयविह्वला ।
अमात्यमध्ये संक्रुद्धा परुषं वाक्यमब्रवीत् ॥
The demoness, angry and agitated by
fear, spoke these harsh words to Ravana
the destroyer of foes, seated amidst his
ministers :
सक्तं ग्राम्येषु भोगेषु कामवृत्तं महीपतिम् ।
लुब्धं न बहु मन्यन्ते श्मशानाग्निमिव प्रजाः ॥
"The subjects do not care much for
that king who is addicted to vulgar
pleasures, does what he likes and is miserly,
even as they do not care for the fire in
the burning ground.
अयुक्तचारं मन्ये त्वां प्राकृतैः सचिवैर्वृतम् ।
स्वजनं तु जनस्थाने हृतं यो नावबुध्यसे ।
I consider you without spies and
surrounded by vulgar ministers,
as you do
not know the slaughter of
your own
people at Janasthana.