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AYODHYAKANDA
 
feet. Be thou the refuge of Rama. Let not
unrighteousness touch me in this matter."
 
इति दुःखाभिसन्तप्तं प्रार्थयन्तं पुनः पुनः ।
प्रत्युवाचाथ कैकेयी रौद्रा रौद्रतरं वचः ॥
 
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To him who was thus afflicted with
misery and repeatedly supplicating her, the
fierce Kaikeyi replied with fiercer words:
 
भवत्वधर्मो धर्मो वा सत्यं वा यदि वाऽनृतम् ।
यत्त्वया संश्रुतं मह्यं तस्य नास्ति व्यतिक्रमः ॥
 
" Be it righteousness or unrighteousness,
truth or even untruth, there shall be no
transgression of what has been promised
me by you.
 
भरतेनात्मना चाहं शपे ते मनुजाधिप ।
यथा नान्येन तुष्येयमृते रामविवासनात् ॥
 
By Bharata and by my own self, I swear
to you, O Lord of men ! I will not be
satisfied with anything but the banishment
of Rama."
 
एतावदुक्त्वा वचनं कैकेयी विरराम ह ।
दीनया तु गिरा राजा इति होवाच कैकयीम् ॥