Рамаяна: Том 1: Балаканда и Айодхьяканда · Часть 60
Полный четырёхтомник Манматхи Натха Датта, английский, Калькутта, 1891–1894. Все четыре тома конкретного перевода М. Н. Датта: Балаканда, Айодхьяканда, Араньяканда, Кишкиндхаканда, Сундараканда, Юддхаканда и Уттараканда. Полный текст выбранного четырёхтомного издания; это не собрание всех версий Рамаяны.
Все четыре тома конкретного перевода М. Н. Датта: Балаканда, Айодхьяканда, Араньяканда, Кишкиндхаканда, Сундараканда, Юддхаканда и Уттараканда. Полный текст выбранного четырёхтомного издания; это не собрание всех версий Рамаяны.
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Rama's mother rushed after him like a cow having a calf which has been
fettered, rushing towards the fold, for the purpose of seeing it. Rama
beheld his mother Kaucalya running after the car, bewailing aloud,--
"Rama, Rama, Ah Sita, Lakshmana," shedding tears for Rama, Lakshmana and
Sita, and appearing as if she had been dancing incessantly. The king
exclaimed,--"Stay," Raghava said,--"On, On." Sumantra's mind vascillated
like that of one placed between two hosts burning to encounter each
other. Rama said unto him--"When taxed by the monarch (on your return),
you will say, 'I did not hear you.' But delay will impart me terrible
pain." Thereupon, doing Rama's bidding, the charioteer, telling the
people to desist, made the horses already coursing, run faster. The
retainers of the king stopped after circumambulating Rama, but their
minds did not turn back. But the others did not return either bodily or
mentally. Then the courtiers said unto that mighty monarch,
Dacaratha,--"He that is expected back should not be followed far."
Hearing their words, the king endued with every virtue, with his body
covered with perspiration and his countenance woe-begone, and exceeding
distressed, stopped short and stood along with his wife looking at his
son.
SECTION XLI.
When that foremost of men had gone out of the city with joined hands,
there arose a chorus of cries proceeding from the females residing in
the inner apartment. "Where goeth he that was the stay and refuge of the
friendless, the feeble, and the helpless? He that although falsely
accused, used not to be moved by anger, who pacified every enraged
person by renouncing things calculated to fan anger and who felt equally
for all, where goeth he? Where goeth that highly energetic and
magnanimous one who conducted himself with us as he did with his mother
Kaucalya? Afflicted by Kaikeyi and commissioned by the monarch unto the
woods, where goeth the deliverer of these people--of the entire world?
Ah! the senseless monarch is sending to the woods the stay of all
creatures--the righteous and truthful Rama." Thus all the queens,
oppressed with grief, burst out into lamentations like kine bereft of
calves, and loud was the sound of their wailing. Hearing the loud tumult
of lamentation in the inner apartment, the lord of earth burning in
grief for his son was striken with sorrow. And oblations unto the fire
had not been offered; and the Sun set; and elephants forsook their
forage; and the kine did not suckle their calves. Trisanku, Lohitanga,
Vrihashpati, Budha and the other Grahas getting at the Moon, remained
with fierce aspects. The stars are shorn of their brightness; the Grahas
deprived of sheen; and Vicakha appeareth enveloped in haze. And clouds
driven by the wind resembled the sea mounting the welkin; and the city
shook on Rama having departed for the forest. And the cardinal points
are distressed, and appear enveloped in darkness. And no planet or star
is to be seen. And all of a sudden the citizens have been striken with
poverty: and no one turns his thoughts to eating or drinking. And
ceaselessly burning in grief and heaving sighs, the people in Ayodhya
rage at the monarch. And with their faces washed in tears, the wayfarers
betoken no delight, but all are being exercised with grief. And the cool
air does not blow, and no moon of mild appearance is seen, and no sun
heats the world, all the entire Earth is overwhelmed with woe. And sons
depend not upon their parents, hurbands on their wives, and brothers on
brothers; and all forsaking each other, think of Rama only. And deprived
of sense, and oppressed by the load of sorrow, the friends of Rama
forsook their rest. Like the Earth with her mountains bereft of
Purandara, Ayodhya, bereft of Rama, shook, agitated by fear and grief;
and the citizens with elephants and warriors uttered exclamations of
distress.
SECTION XLII.
So long as he could see the dust raised by the car of Rama setting out
for the forest, so long that best of the Ikshwaku race did not turn his
eyes from that direction. And so long as the king could discover his
exceedingly virtuous and favorite son, so long he raised himself (on his
toes) on the earth with the view of beholding him. And when the ruler of
earth could no longer perceive even the dust raised by Rama's car, then
pierced with sorrow, and in heaviness of heart, he fell down to the
ground. Then (raising him up), Kaucalya held his right arm and walked
with him, while the slender-waisted Kaikeyi walked by his left. Endowed
with a sense of justice and with virtue and humility, the king with
afflicted senses steadily eyeing Kaikeyi, thus spake unto her,--"O
Kaikeyi, that hast decided for following sin, do thou not touch my
person,--nor do I wish to see thee. Thou art no wife of mine--not even a
maid-servant of a friend sharing his good graces. I am none to those
that subsist on thy favour, nor are they anything to me. I renounce thee
who solely seekest thy interest and hast abandoned virtue. I renounce
all the advantages pertaining either to this world or the next which I
am entitled to by virtue of having obtained thy hand and having made
thee circumambulate the sacrifical fire. If Bharata is satisfied with
receiving this entire kingdom, let not what he spends on account of my
funeral obsequies find its way to me." Then raising the lord of men
covered with dust, the noble Kaucalya pierced with grief, stopped (along
with the monarch). The righteous one remembering Raghava repented
himself, as if he had slain a Brahmana through inordinate desire, or as
if he had placed his hand in fire. And having stopped again and again,
the visage of the monarch lamenting on beholding the track of the car,
appeared dim like the Moon invaded by Rahu. And stricken with grief, he
lamented, remembering his beloved son; and thinking that by this time he
had reached the precincts of the city, he broke out into the
following,--"On the way are traced the foot-prints of those foremost of
bearers that are carrying my son away; but that magnanimous one I do not
find. And that meritorious son of mine, who, doubed with sandal, used to
rest his head pleasantly upon a pillow, fanned by beauteous damsels
decked in ornaments, will to-day surely take refuge underneath a tree,
and lay his head on a wooden plank or a stone. Covered with dust, he
heaving sighs will rise from the ground in sad guise, like a leader of
she-elephants rising from the side of a mountain. The rangers of the
woods will now see the long-armed Rama resembling the lord himself of
the worlds, rising from the ground and going like one forlorn. And that
one so dearly loved by Janaka, worthy of being constantly ministered
unto with comforts, is to-day going to the forest, fatigued in
consequence of having been pierced with thorns. Unacquainted with the
forest, she is certainly afflicted with fright on hearing the deep roars
of ferocious beasts, capable of making one's hair stand erect. O
Kaikeyi, do thou realize thy desire,--do thou becoming a widow, rule
this kingdom. Without that best of men I cannot live." Thus lamenting,
the king surrounded by the multitude, like one that had performed his
bath after death, entered that best of cities filled with people
enfeebled and smitten with grief, with its streets thined of men and its
stalls closed. And beholding that entire city, with his mind fixed upon
Rama, the king lamenting, like unto the sun entering clouds, entered
that city like unto an unagitated sea rid of serpents by Suparna,[142]
the city without Rama or Lakshmana or Sita. Then with tears in his eyes,
the lord of earth, lamenting, in unintelligible accents said these sad
and broken words,--"Do you speedily take me to the room of Rama's
mother, Kaucalya; for in no other place shall I find rest for my heart."
When the king had spoken thus, the ushers taking him to Kaucalya's
chamber, made him lie down in lowly plight. And having entered
Kaucalya's apartment, the king having laid himself on the bed, was
overwhelmed with emotion. And the king surveyed the mansion deprived of
his two sons as well as his daughter-in-law, like unto the welkin
deprived of the Moon. Beholding this, the puissant sovereign raising up
his arm, burst out into lamentations, saying,-- "Ah! Rama, thou
forsakest us both! Ah me! surely those blessed people are happy, who
having passed this gap of time, will behold Rama returned and will
embrace him." Then when the night had come like unto his own fatal
night, Dacaratha at mid-night addressed Kaucalya saying,--"I do not
perceive thee, O Kaucalya. Do thou touch me with thy hand. My sight
having followed Rama doth not return yet." Then seeing that foremost of
men absorbed in the contemplation of Rama, that noble dame sat by him,
and afflicted with greater grief, began to indulge a sorrow,[143]
sighing heavily.
[142] _Lit, fair-feathered_, a name of _Garura_.--r.
[143] Another text reads _vinisvasantan_, joining it to
_narendram_--foremopst of men.--T.
SECTION XLIII.
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