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अयोध्याकाण्डम्/सर्गः_२३2.23.p03484–2.23.p03488
अयोध्याकाण्डम्/सर्गः_२३2.23.p03484

Sanskrit · 2.23.p03484

श्रीमद्वाल्मीकियरामायणे अयोध्याकाण्डे त्रयोविंशः सर्गः ॥२-२३॥ इति ब्रुवति रामे तु लक्ष्मणोऽवाक् शिरा इव। ध्यात्वा मध्यं जगामाशु सहसा दैन्यहर्षयोः॥ १॥

English · Meaning

In the revered Valmiki Ramayana, in the Ayodhya Kanda, the twenty-third canto. While Rama was saying this, Lakshmana became speechless, as though with his head bowed. Having pondered the middle between dejection and joy, he suddenly went away swiftly. The wording “the middle of dejection and joy” is retained literally; it may describe an intermediate or conflicted state between the two emotions.

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अयोध्याकाण्डम्/सर्गः_२३2.23.p03485

Sanskrit · 2.23.p03485

तदा तु बद‍्ध्वा भ्रुकुटीं भ्रुवोर्मध्ये नरर्षभः। निशश्वास महासर्पो बिलस्थ इव रोषितः॥ २॥

English · Meaning

Then, having knit his brow between his eyebrows, that bull among men sighed like a great serpent dwelling in a hole, angered.

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अयोध्याकाण्डम्/सर्गः_२३2.23.p03486

Sanskrit · 2.23.p03486

तस्य दुष्प्रतिवीक्ष्यं तद् भ्रुकुटीसहितं तदा। बभौ क्रुद्धस्य सिंहस्य मुखस्य सदृशं मुखम्॥ ३॥

English · Meaning

Then his face, difficult to look upon and marked by a frown, shone like the face of an angry lion.

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अयोध्याकाण्डम्/सर्गः_२३2.23.p03487

Sanskrit · 2.23.p03487

अग्रहस्तं विधुन्वंस्तु हस्ती हस्तमिवात्मनः। तिर्यगूर्ध्वं शरीरे च पातयित्वा शिरोधराम्॥ ४॥

English · Meaning

But the elephant, shaking its foreleg like its own trunk, and letting the stream from its head fall crosswise and upward upon its body...

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अयोध्याकाण्डम्/सर्गः_२३2.23.p03488

Sanskrit · 2.23.p03488

अग्राक्ष्णा वीक्षमाणस्तु तिर्यग्भ्रातरमब्रवीत्। अस्थाने सम्भ्रमो यस्य जातो वै सुमहानयम्॥ ५॥

English · Meaning

Looking from the corner of his eye, he spoke obliquely to his brother: “A very great bewilderment has arisen in you in an inappropriate place.”

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