Ramayan, Book 3, The

<SPAN name="toc421" id="toc421"></SPAN> <SPAN name="pdf422" id="pdf422"></SPAN> <SPAN name="CantoIII-XIII" id="CantoIII-XIII" class="tei tei-anchor"></SPAN> <h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Canto XIII. Agastya's Counsel.</span></h2> <div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“O Ráma, great delight I feel,</span></div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Pleased, Lakshmaṇ, with thy faithful zeal,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That you within these shades I see</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With Sítá come to honour me.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">But wandering through the rough rude wild</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Has wearied Janak's gentle child:</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With labours of the way oppressed</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Maithil lady longs for rest.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Young, delicate, and soft, and fair,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Such toils as these untrained to bear,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Her wifely love the dame has led</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The forest's troubled ways to tread.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Here, Ráma, see that naught annoy</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Her easy hours of tranquil joy:</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A glorious task has she assayed,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To follow thee through woodland shade.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Since first from Nature's hand she came,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A woman's mood is still the same,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When Fortune smiles, her love to show,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And leave her lord in want and woe.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">No pity then her heart can feel,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">She arms her soul with warrior's steel,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Swift as the storm or Feathered King,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Uncertain as the lightning's wing.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Not so thy spouse: her purer mind</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Shrinks from the faults of womankind;</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Like chaste Arundhatí<SPAN id="noteref_441" name="noteref_441" href="#note_441"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">441</span></span></SPAN> above,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A paragon of faithful love.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Let these blest shades, dear Ráma, be</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">A home for Lakshmaṇ, her, and thee.”</span></div> </div> <div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">With raised hands reverently meek</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He heard the holy hermit speak,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And humbly thus addressed the sire</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Whose glory shone like kindled fire:</div> </div> <div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“How blest am I, what thanks I owe</span></div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That our great Master deigns to show</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His favour, that his heart can be</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Content with Lakshmaṇ, Sítá, me.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Show me, I pray, some spot of ground</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Where thick trees wave and springs abound,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That I may raise my hermit cell</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">And there in tranquil pleasure dwell.”</span></div> </div> <div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then thus replied Agastya, best</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of hermits, to the chief's request:</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When for a little he had bent</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His thoughts, upon that prayer intent:</div> </div> <div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Beloved son, four leagues away</span></div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Is Panchavaṭí bright and gay:</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thronged with its deer, most fair it looks</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With berries, fruit, and water-brooks.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">There build thee with thy brother's aid</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A cottage in the quiet shade,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And faithful to thy sire's behest,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Obedient to the sentence, rest.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For well, O sinless chieftain, well</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I know thy tale, how all befell:</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Stern penance and the love I bore</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thy royal sire supply the lore.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To me long rites and fervid zeal</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The wish that stirs thy heart reveal,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And hence my guest I bade thee be,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That this pure grove might shelter thee.</div> <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page245"></span><SPAN name="Pg245" id="Pg245" class="tei tei-anchor"></SPAN> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">So now, thereafter, thus I speak:</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The shades of Panchavaṭí seek;</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That tranquil spot is bright and fair,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And Sítá will be happy there.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Not far remote from here it lies,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A grove to charm thy loving eyes,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Godávarí's pure stream is nigh:</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">There Sítá's days will sweetly fly.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Pure, lovely, rich in many a charm,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">O hero of the mighty arm,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">'Tis gay with every plant and fruit,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And throngs of gay buds never mute.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thou, true to virtue's path, hast might</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To screen each trusting anchorite,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And wilt from thy new home defend</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The hermits who on thee depend.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Now yonder, Prince, direct thine eyes</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Where dense Madhúka<SPAN id="noteref_442" name="noteref_442" href="#note_442"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">442</span></span></SPAN> woods arise:</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Pierce their dark shade, and issuing forth</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Turn to a fig-tree on the north:</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Then onward up a sloping mead</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Flanked by a hill the way will lead:</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">There Panchavaṭí, ever gay</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">With ceaseless bloom, thy steps will stay.”</span></div> </div> <div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The hermit ceased: the princely two</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With seemly honours bade adieu:</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With reverential awe each youth</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Bowed to the saint whose word was truth,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And then, dismissed with Sítá, they</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To Panchavaṭí took their way.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thus when each royal prince had grasped</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His warrior's mighty bow, and clasped</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">His quiver to his side,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With watchful eyes along the road</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The glorious saint Agastya showed,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Dauntless in fight the brothers strode,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">And Sítá with them hied.</div> </div></div> <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> <SPAN name="toc423" id="toc423"></SPAN> <SPAN name="pdf424" id="pdf424"></SPAN> <SPAN name="CantoIII-XIV" id="CantoIII-XIV" class="tei tei-anchor"></SPAN> <h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Canto XIV. Jatáyus.</span></h2> <div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Then as the son of Raghu made</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His way to Panchavaṭí's shade,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A mighty vulture he beheld</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of size and strength unparalleled.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The princes, when the bird they saw,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Approached with reverence and awe,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And as his giant form they eyed,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Tell who thou art,”</span> in wonder cried.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The bird, as though their hearts to gain,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Addressed them thus in gentlest strain;</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“In me, dear sons, the friend behold</span></div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Your royal father loved of old.”</span></div> </div> <div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He spoke: nor long did Ráma wait</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His sire's dear friend to venerate:</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He bade the bird declare his name</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And the high race of which he came.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When Raghu's son had spoken, he</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Declared his name and pedigree,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His words prolonging to disclose</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">How all the things that be arose:</div> </div> <div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“List while I tell, O Raghu's son,</span></div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The first-born Fathers, one by one,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Great Lords of Life, whence all in earth</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And all in heaven derive their birth.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">First Kardam heads the glorious race</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Where Vikrit holds the second place,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With Śesha, Sanśray next in line,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And Bahuputra's might divine.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Then Stháṇu and Maríchi came,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Atri, and Kratu's forceful frame.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Pulastya followed, next to him</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Angiras' name shall ne'er be dim.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Prachetas, Pulah next, and then</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Daksha, Vivasvat praised of men:</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aríshṭanemi next, and last</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Kaśyap in glory unsurpassed.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">From Daksha,—fame the tale has told—:</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Three-score bright daughters sprang of old.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of these fair-waisted nymphs the great</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Lord Kaśyap sought and wedded eight,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aditi, Diti, Kálaká,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Támrá, Danú, and Analá,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And Krodhavasá swift to ire,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And Manu<SPAN id="noteref_443" name="noteref_443" href="#note_443"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">443</span></span></SPAN> glorious as her sire.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Then when the mighty Kaśyap cried</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Delighted to each tender bride:</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Sons shalt thou bear, to rule the three</span></div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Great worlds, in might resembling me.”</span></div> <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page246"></span><SPAN name="Pg246" id="Pg246" class="tei tei-anchor"></SPAN> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aditi, Diti, and Danú</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Obeyed his will as consorts true,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And Kálaká; but all the rest</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Refused to hear their lord's behest.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">First Aditi conceived, and she,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mother of thirty Gods and three,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Vasus and Ádityas bare,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Rudras, and Aśvins, heavenly pair.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of Diti sprang the Daityas: fame</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Delights to laud their ancient name.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In days of yore their empire dread</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">O'er earth and woods and ocean spread.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Danú was mother of a child,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">O hero, Aśvagríva styled,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And Narak next and Kálak came</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of Kálaká, celestial dame.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of Támrá, too, five daughters bright</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">In deathless glory sprang to light.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Ennobling fame still keeps alive</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The titles of the lovely five:</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Immortal honour still she claims</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For Kraunchí, Bhasí, Śyení's names.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And wills not that the world forget</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Śukí or Dhritaráshtrí yet.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Then Kraunchí bare the crane and owl,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And Bhásí tribes of water fowl:</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Vultures and hawks that race through air</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With storm-fleet pinions Śyení bare.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">All swans and geese on mere and brook</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Their birth from Dhritaráshtrí took,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And all the river-haunting brood</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of ducks, a countless multitude.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">From Śukí Nalá sprang, who bare</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Dame Vinatá surpassing fair.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">From fiery Krodhavaśá, ten</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Bright daughters sprang, O King of men:</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mrigí and Mrigamandá named,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Hari and Bhadramadá famed,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Śárdúlí, Śvetá fair to see,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mátangí bright, and Surabhí,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Surasá marked with each fair sign,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And Kadrumá, all maids divine.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mrigí, O Prince without a peer,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Was mother of the herds of deer,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The bear, the yak, the mountain roe</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Their birth to Mrigamandá owe;</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And Bhadramadá joyed to be</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mother of fair Irávatí,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Who bare Airávat,<SPAN id="noteref_444" name="noteref_444" href="#note_444"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">444</span></span></SPAN> huge of mould,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mid warders of the earth enrolled,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">From Harí lordly lions trace,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With monkeys of the wild, their race.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">From the great dame Śárdúlí styled</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sprung pards, Lángúrs,<SPAN id="noteref_445" name="noteref_445" href="#note_445"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">445</span></span></SPAN> and tigers wild.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mátangí, Prince, gave birth to all</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Mátangas, elephants strong and tall,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And Śvetá bore the beasts who stand</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">One at each wind, earth's warder band.<SPAN id="noteref_446" name="noteref_446" href="#note_446"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">446</span></span></SPAN></div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Next Surabhí the Goddess bore</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Two heavenly maids, O Prince, of yore,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Gandharví—dear to fame is she—</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And her sweet sister Rohiṇí.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With kine this daughter filled each mead,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And bright Gandharví bore the steed.<SPAN id="noteref_447" name="noteref_447" href="#note_447"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">447</span></span></SPAN></div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Surasá bore the serpents:<SPAN id="noteref_448" name="noteref_448" href="#note_448"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">448</span></span></SPAN> all</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The snakes Kadrú their mother call.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Then Manu, high-souled Kaśyap's<SPAN id="noteref_449" name="noteref_449" href="#note_449"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">449</span></span></SPAN> wife,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To all the race of men gave life,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Bráhmans first, the Kshatriya caste,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Then Vaiśyas, and the Śúdras last.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sprang from her mouth the Bráhman race;</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Her chest the Kshatriyas' natal place:</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Vaiśyas from her thighs, 'tis said,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Śúdras from her feet were bred.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">From Analá all trees that hang</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Their fair fruit-laden branches sprang.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The child of beauteous Śukí bore</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Vinatá, as I taught before:</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And Surasá and Kadrú were</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Born of one dame, a noble pair.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Kadrú gave birth to countless snakes</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That roam the earth in woods and brakes.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aruṇ and Garuḍ swift of flight</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">By Vinatá were given to light,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And sons of Aruṇ red as morn</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Sampati first, then I was born,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Me then, O tamer of the foe,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Jaṭáyus, son of Śyení, know.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Thy ready helper will I be,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And guard thy house, if thou agree:</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">When thou and Lakshmaṇ urge the chase</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">By Sítá's side shall be my place.”</span></div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With courteous thanks for promised aid,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The prince, to rapture stirred,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Bent low, and due obeisance paid,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Embraced the royal bird.</div> <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page247"></span><SPAN name="Pg247" id="Pg247" class="tei tei-anchor"></SPAN> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He often in the days gone by</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Had heard his father tell</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">How, linked with him in friendship's tie,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He loved Jaṭáyus well.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He hastened to his trusted friend</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">His darling to confide,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And through the wood his steps to bend</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">By strong Jaṭáyus' side.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">On to the grove, with Lakshmaṇ near,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">The prince his way pursued</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To free those pleasant shades from fear</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">And slay the giant brood.</div> </div></div> <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> <SPAN name="toc425" id="toc425"></SPAN> <SPAN name="pdf426" id="pdf426"></SPAN> <SPAN name="CantoIII-XV" id="CantoIII-XV" class="tei tei-anchor"></SPAN> <h2 class="tei tei-head" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 2.88em; margin-top: 2.88em"><span style="font-size: 144%">Canto XV. Panchavatí.</span></h2> <div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Arrived at Panchavaṭí's shade</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Where silvan life and serpents strayed,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Ráma in words like these addressed</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Lakshmaṇ of vigour unrepressed:</div> </div> <div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Brother, our home is here: behold</span></div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The grove of which the hermit told:</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The bowers of Panchavaṭí see</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Made fair by every blooming tree.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Now, brother, bend thine eyes around;</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With skilful glance survey the ground:</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Here be some spot selected, best</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Approved for gentle hermits' rest,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Where thou, the Maithil dame, and I</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">May dwell while seasons sweetly fly.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Some pleasant spot be chosen where</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Pure waters gleam and trees are fair,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Some nook where flowers and wood are found</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">And sacred grass and springs abound.”</span></div> </div> <div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Then Lakshmaṇ, Sítá standing by,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Raised reverent hands, and made reply:</div> </div> <div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“A hundred years shall flee, and still</span></div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Will I obey my brother's will:</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Select thyself a pleasant spot;</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">Be mine the care to rear the cot.”</span></div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The glorious chieftain, pleased to hear</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That loving speech that soothed his ear,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Selected with observant care</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A spot with every charm most fair.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He stood within that calm retreat,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A shade for hermits' home most meet,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And thus Sumitrá's son addressed,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">While his dear hand in his he pressed:</div> </div> <div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“See, see this smooth and lovely glade</span></div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Which flowery trees encircling shade:</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Do thou, beloved Lakshmaṇ rear</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">A pleasant cot to lodge us here.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">I see beyond that feathery brake</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The gleaming of a lilied lake,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Where flowers in sunlike glory throw</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Fresh odours from the wave below.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Agastya's words now find we true,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He told the charms which here we view:</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Here are the trees that blossom o'er</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Godávarí's most lovely shore.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Whose pleasant flood from side to side</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With swans and geese is beautified,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And fair banks crowded with the deer</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">That steal from every covert near.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The peacock's cry is loud and shrill</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">From many a tall and lovely hill,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Green-belted by the trees that wave</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Full blossoms o'er the rock and cave.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Like elephants whose huge fronts glow</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With painted streaks, the mountains show</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Long lines of gold and silver sheen</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With copper's darker hues between.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With every tree each hill is graced,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Where creepers blossom interlaced.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Look where the Sál's long branches sway,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And palms their fanlike leaves display;</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The date-tree and the Jak are near,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And their long stems Tamálas rear.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">See the tall Mango lift his head,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Aśokas all their glory spread,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The Ketak her sweet buds unfold,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And Champacs hang their cups of gold.<SPAN id="noteref_450" name="noteref_450" href="#note_450"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">450</span></span></SPAN></div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The spot is pure and pleasant: here</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Are multitudes of birds and deer.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">O Lakshmaṇ, with our father's friend</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">What happy hours we here shall spend!”</span></div> </div> <div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">He spoke: the conquering Lakshmaṇ heard,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Obedient to his brother's word.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Raised by his toil a cottage stood</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To shelter Ráma in the wood,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of ample size, with leaves o'erlaid,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of hardened earth the walls were made.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The strong bamboos his hands had felled</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For pillars fair the roof upheld,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And rafter, beam, and lath supplied</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Well interwrought from side to side.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Then Śamí<SPAN id="noteref_451" name="noteref_451" href="#note_451"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">451</span></span></SPAN> boughs he deftly spread</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Enlaced with knotted cord o'erhead,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Well thatched above from ridge to eaves</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With holy grass, and reed, and leaves.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The mighty chief with careful toil</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Had cleared the ground and smoothed the soil</div> <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page248"></span><SPAN name="Pg248" id="Pg248" class="tei tei-anchor"></SPAN> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Where now, his loving labour done,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Rose a fair home for Raghu's son.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Then when his work was duly wrought,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Godávarís sweet stream he sought,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Bathed, plucked the lilies, and a store</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of fruit and berries homeward bore.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Then sacrifice he duly paid,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And wooed the Gods their hopes to aid,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And then to Ráma proudly showed</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The cot prepared for his abode.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Then Raghu's son with Sítá gazed</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Upon the home his hands had raised,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And transport thrilled his bosom through</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His leafy hermitage to view.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">The glorious son of Raghu round</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">His brother's neck his arms enwound,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">And thus began his sweet address</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Of deep-felt joy and gentleness:</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">“Well pleased am I, dear lord, to see</span></div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">This noble work performed by thee.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">For this,—sole grace I can bestow,—</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">About thy neck mine arms I throw.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">So wise art thou, thy breast is filled</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With grateful thoughts, in duty skilled,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Our mighty father, free from stain,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left"><span class="tei tei-q" style="text-align: left">In thee, his offspring, lives again.”</span></div> </div> <div class="tei tei-lg" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em"> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">Thus spoke the prince, who lent a grace</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">To fortune, pride of Raghu's race;</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Then in that spot whose pleasant shade</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Gave store of fruit, content he stayed.</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">With Lakshmaṇ and his Maithil spouse</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">He spent his day's neath sheltering boughs,</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">As happy as a God on high</div> <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">Lives in his mansion in the sky.</div> </div></div> <div class="tei tei-div" style="margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em"> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />