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20 passagesप्रस्थाप्य तु स शत्रुघ्नं भ्रातृभ्यां सह राघवः । प्रमुमोद सुखी राज्यं धर्मेण परिपालयन् ।। ७.७३.१ ।।
Having dispatched Shatrughna, Rāghava rejoiced, happy, while ruling the kingdom righteously together with his two brothers.
ततः कतिपयाहःसु वृद्धो जानपदो द्विजः । मृतं बालमुपादाय राजद्वारमुपागमत् ।। ७.७३.२ ।।
Then, after a few days, an aged brahmin from the countryside, taking up his dead boy, came to the royal gate.
रुदन्बहुविधा वाचः स्नेहदुःखसमन्विताः । असकृत्पुत्र पुत्रेति वाक्यमेतदुवाच ह ।। ७.७३.३ ।।
Weeping, uttering many kinds of words filled with affection and grief, and repeatedly crying, “O son, O son!”, he spoke this speech indeed.
किं नु मे दुष्कृतं कर्म पुरा देहान्तरे कृतम् । यदहं पुत्रमेकं त्वां पश्यामि निधनं गतम् ।। ७.७३.४ ।।
What evil deed was committed by me formerly in another body, that I now see you, my only son, gone to your death?
अप्राप्तयौवनं बालं पञ्चवर्षसहस्रकम् । अकाले कालमापन्नं मम दुःखाय पुत्रक ।। ७.७३.५ ।।
A child who had not reached youth, described in the transmitted text by the compound pañcavarṣasahasrakam—literally something like “five-year-thousand” or “five-thousand-year-old,” whose intended age-expression is uncertain—has met death before his time, to my sorrow, little son.
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