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50 passagesश्रीमद्वाल्मीकियरामायणे अयोध्याकाण्डे एकविंशः सर्गः ॥२-२१॥ तथा तु विलपन्तीं तां कौसल्यां राममातरम्। उवाच लक्ष्मणो दीनस्तत्कालसदृशं वचः॥ १॥
In the revered Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa, in the Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, the twenty-first canto. Then Lakṣmaṇa, distressed, spoke to the lamenting Kausalyā, the mother of Rāma, words fitting that moment.
न रोचते ममाप्येतदार्ये यद् राघवो वनम्। त्यक्त्वा राज्यश्रियं गच्छेत् स्त्रिया वाक्यवशंगतः॥ २॥
Even I, noble lady, do not approve of this: that Rāghava should go to the forest, abandoning the splendor of kingship and having come under the power of a woman's words.
विपरीतश्च वृद्धश्च विषयैश्च प्रधर्षितः। नृपः किमिव न ब्रूयाच्चोद्यमानः समन्मथः॥ ३॥
“The king is deranged, old, and overcome by the objects of the senses. What indeed would he not say when he is being goaded and is distraught?”
नास्यापराधं पश्यामि नापि दोषं तथाविधम्। येन निर्वास्यते राष्ट्राद् वनवासाय राघवः॥ ४॥
“I see no fault of his, nor any fault of such a kind, on account of which Rāghava should be banished from the kingdom for residence in the forest.”
न तं पश्याम्यहं लोके परोक्षमपि यो नरः। स्वमित्रोऽपि निरस्तोऽपि योऽस्य दोषमुदाहरेत्॥ ५॥
I do not see in the world even a man who is absent from sight, such that—even if he were his own friend, even if rejected—he would speak of this man’s fault.
श्रीमद्वाल्मीकीयरामायणम् (Sanskrit Wikisource) · Sanskrit Wikisource transcription
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