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KISHKINDHAKANDA
 
मम प्राणै: प्रियतरं पुत्रं पुत्रमिवौरसम् ।
मया हीनमहीनार्थं सर्वतः परिपालय ॥
 
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From all harm protect him, my son,
dearer to me than life, as though he were
your own son, —nct lacking anything, though
lacking me.
 
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राघवस्य च ते कार्य कर्तव्यमविशङ्कया ।
स्यादधर्मो ह्यकरणे त्वां च हिंस्याद्विमानितः ॥
You should unfalteringly carry out your
duty towards Raghava. To fail him is to
sin ; and being disregarded, he may punish
you.'
 
इत्युत्त्वाऽथ विवृत्ताक्षः शरसंपीडितो भृशम् ।
विवृतैर्दशनैर्भीमैर्बभूवोत्क्रान्तजीवितः ॥
 
Having said thus, he died, agonised
by the arrow, with his eyes opened wide
and with his terrible teeth exposed.
 
ततो वालिनमुद्यम्य सुग्रीवः शिबिकां तदा ।
आरोपयत विक्रोशन्नङ्गदेन सदैव तु ॥
 
Then Sugriva, lamenting, raised the dead
body of Vali along with Angada, and
had it placed in the palanquin.
 
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