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THE RAMAYANA
Having said thus much, Kaikeyi stopped.
In a distressed voice the king spoke to
Kaikeyi as follows :
न कथञ्चिदृते रामाद्भरतो राज्यमावसेत् ।
रामादपि हि तं मन्ये धर्मतो बलवत्तरम् ॥
Without Rama, Bharata will certainly not
abide in the kingdom. I consider him to be
firmer even than Rama in righteousness.
यदा यदा हि कौसल्या दासीवच्च सखीव च ।
भार्यावद्भगिनीवच्च मातृवच्चोपतिष्ठति ॥
सततं प्रियकामा मे प्रियपुत्रा प्रियंवदा ।
न मया सत्कृता देवि सत्कारार्हा कृते तव ॥
Whensoever Kausalya has attended on me
like a maid, like a friend, like a wife, like a
sister and like ત mother, she who ever
desired my good, who bore my favourite
son, and who spoke so as to please, –
though she deserved considerate treatment,
got none at my hands on your account.
मया ह्यपितृकः पुत्रः स महात्मा दुरात्मना ।
तं तु मां जीवलोकोऽयं नूनमा क्रोष्टुमर्हति ॥
Besides, that high-souled son ( Rama ) is
deprived of his patrimony by me of mean
THE RAMAYANA
Having said thus much, Kaikeyi stopped.
In a distressed voice the king spoke to
Kaikeyi as follows :
न कथञ्चिदृते रामाद्भरतो राज्यमावसेत् ।
रामादपि हि तं मन्ये धर्मतो बलवत्तरम् ॥
Without Rama, Bharata will certainly not
abide in the kingdom. I consider him to be
firmer even than Rama in righteousness.
यदा यदा हि कौसल्या दासीवच्च सखीव च ।
भार्यावद्भगिनीवच्च मातृवच्चोपतिष्ठति ॥
सततं प्रियकामा मे प्रियपुत्रा प्रियंवदा ।
न मया सत्कृता देवि सत्कारार्हा कृते तव ॥
Whensoever Kausalya has attended on me
like a maid, like a friend, like a wife, like a
sister and like ત mother, she who ever
desired my good, who bore my favourite
son, and who spoke so as to please, –
though she deserved considerate treatment,
got none at my hands on your account.
मया ह्यपितृकः पुत्रः स महात्मा दुरात्मना ।
तं तु मां जीवलोकोऽयं नूनमा क्रोष्टुमर्हति ॥
Besides, that high-souled son ( Rama ) is
deprived of his patrimony by me of mean