Рамаяна: Том 1: Балаканда и Айодхьяканда · Часть 79
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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Then Satrughna, the younger brother of Lakshmana spoke unto Bharata
burning in grief as he was revolving in his mind the (intended) journey
(to Rama), "Need it be said that Rama is the refuge both of himself and
all creatures in trouble? That Rama possessed of strength hath been
exiled into the woods by a woman! And powerful and having prowess, why
did not Lakshmana deliver Rama by checking our father? The king bent
upon following an unrighteous course through the influence of a woman,
should, the justice or otherwise of the measure being fully weighed, at
the very outset have been checked." As Lakshmana's younger brother
Satrughna was speaking thus, appeared there at the door in front the
hump-backed one adorned with every kind of ornament, with her body
besmeared with sandal paste, wearing regal apparel, and variously decked
out with a variety of ornaments. And adorned with elegant cones, and
divers other superb ornaments, she looked like a female monkey tethered
with a rope. At that time seeing that one of horrible misdeeds,
(Bharata) who stood near the door, seizing the hump backed one
ruthlessly, took her unto Satrughna, and said, "That one through whom
Rama has gone to the wood and our father has renounced his body this is
that wicked and remorseless one. Do thou deal with her as thou likest."
At Bharata's command Satrughna observing vows waxing exceedingly
aggrieved, addressed all the inmates of the inner apartment, saying,
"This one has occasioned intense misery unto my father and brothers. Let
her now take the fruit of her fell deed." Having said this, he furiously
fell upon the hump backed one surrounded by her maids. Thereupon she
with her cries made the chamber resound. Concluding Satrughna fired with
rage, her associates extremely pained, fled away in all directions. Then
her companions in a body took counsel of each other, saying,
"considering the way in which he has entered upon it, he will annihilate
us quite. Let us therefore seek the protection of the tender hearted
generous, pious and illustrious Kaucalya. Even she is our sure refuge.
Overpowered with rage, that chastiser of foes, Satrughna, dragged the
shrieking hump-backed one to the ground. As Manthara was pushed this way
and that, her various ornaments were scattered over the floor. Aad
strewn with those ornaments, the graceful chamber of the palace looked
like the autumnal firmament. And that foremost of men possessed of
strength holding her, began to reprove Kaikeyi with harsh speech.
Extremely hurt by those rough words, Kaikeyi terrified on account of
Satrughna, took refuge with her son. Thereupon casting his eyes on
Satrughna, Bharata said, "A woman is incapable of being slain by any. Do
thou therefore excuse her. I myself would have slain this wicked Kaikeyi
of impious deeds, if the righteous Rama should not be displeased with me
on account of my slaying my mother. And if Raghava knows that the
hump-backed one hath been slain, he surely will speak neither with thee
nor me." Hearing Bharata's words, Satrughna, younger brother unto
Lakshmana, refrained from that wrong and set free the hump-backed woman
in a swoon. Thereat, sighing hard in exceeding grief, Manthara flung
herself at Kaikeyi's feet, weeping piteously. Seeing the hump-backed one
deprived of her senses in consequence of the pushing she had received at
the hands of Satrughna, Bhjarata's mother consoled that distressed
woman, who appeared like a Kraunchi that had been entrapped.
SECTION LXXIX.
Then on the morning of the fourteenth day, the ministers of the king
assembled addressed Bharata in the following words, "Having exiled his
eldest son and the exceedingly strong Lakshmana, Dacaratha who was the
superior of our superiors hath gone to heaven. Do thou, therefore, O
illustrious prince, become our king. Having been permitted by the king,
thou wilt commit no fault (by doing so), as this kingdom is without a
master. O Raghava, having procured all these necessaries for the
installation, the counsellors and others as well as the citizens wait, O
king's son. Do thou, O Bharata, take charge of this secure kingdom
bequeathed by thy father and grandfather. Do thou, O foremost of men,
have thyself sprinkled, and rule over us." Thereupon, having gone round
all the things procured for the sprinkling Bharata firm in his vows
addressed those persons, saying, "In our line it is ever fit for the
first-born alone to perform the task of government. It doth not behove
ye who are wise to say so unto me. Certainly Rama our eldest brother
shall become the king; and I will abide in the forest for five and nine
years. Do ye array the grand and mighty army consisting of fourfold
forces. I will bring back from the forest my eldest brother Raghava. And
taking all these necessaries for the investiture in front, I will go in
the direction of the forest for Rama. And sprinkling that chief of men
on the spot, I will placing him in our front, bring Rama back, like unto
fire brought in from the sacrifice. I will never fulfil the desire of
this lady proud of her son. I will inhabit the impracticable woods, and
Rama shall become the monarch. Let workmen lay out level roads in uneven
tracts; and let those men that are adepts in threading places difficult
to pass through, follow us." When the prince had spoken thus in behalf
of Rama, all those persons answered him in these excellent words, "For
saying this, may Lakshmi seated on the lotus remain at thy side;
inasmuch as thou wishest to confer the earth on the eldest son of the
monarch!" Hearing that graceful speech of the king's son, tear-drops,
begot of delight began to trickle from their eyes and adorned those
noble countenances. And their grief removed, with cheerful hearts, the
counsellors, courtiers, and others hearing that speech (of the prince),
said, "O best of men, according to thy order, artizans as well as people
cherishing a high regard for thee have been directed to lay out a road."
SECTION LXXX.
Then set out in advance persons having a knowledge of the humidity or
otherwise of the soil, men skilled in making tents, brave delvers
engaged in their proper work; those capable of constructing canals and
water courses, people on pay, car-makers, men preparing machines,
carpenters, those intended to guard the ways, pioneers, cooks,
perfumers, makers of wicker-ware and able guides. And as the mighty
throng began to proceed, it resembled the swell of the sea on the
occasion of a _parva_. And numbers of men skilled in road-constructing
went before furnished with various implements. And hewing away boughs,
and plants and shrubs and woody projections, stones, and diverse trees,
they went on preparing a road. And they set up trees where there were
none, and at places they felled trees by means of axes, _tankas_, and
_daos_, others possessed of greater strength and more powerful, with
their hands uprooted masses of Virana and here and there leveled a
rising ground. And others filled up with dust wells and capacious
hollows, and speedily leveled deep places air around. And those men
threw bridges wherever they became necessary, and broke the earth
wherever such a process was required, and excavated whenever it was
necessary. In a short time, they made places poor of water overflow with
many and various expanses resembling the ocean. And in tracts void of
water, they digged divers receptacles of water, decorated with daises.
And the way of the army, furnished with pavements of bricks and clay,
with trees bearing blosoms, eloquent with the tunes of birds, decorated
with pennons, sprinkled with sandal showers, and garnished with flowers
of various kinds, looked exceedingly beautiful, like unto the way of the
celestials. Then having received the command of Bharata, the men that
were in charge of the tents, ordered (the workmen) to pitch the tents,
and when they had been pitched at a romantic spot filled with tasteful
fruits, in consonance with the injunction of the high-souled Bharata,
the men decorated splendidly the tents which themselves were like the
ornaments of the road. And under an auspicious statf and at a favorable
hour, men well up in the work set the encampment of the high-souled
Bharata. And the tenfs surrounded by an entrenchment paved with dust,
containing images made of sapphires, graced with goodly thoroughfares,
lined with edifices, encircled by towers and walls, decorated with
streamers, having well-made high-ways, and appearing like celestial
daises and containing stately mansions with dove-cotes, resembled the
metropolis of Sakra himself. And passing by the Jahnavi abounding in
various trees and woods, of cool and crystal waters, and filled with
mighty fishes, that way of the chief of men constructed by artizans,
looked more and more lovely as it proceeded, as the unclouded sky looks
beautiful at night, adorned with inumerable stars.
SECTION LXXXI.
Then seeing that the night in which had been performed the auspicious
preliminary ceremonies, was about to be spent, eulogists and
genealogists hymned Bharata with consecrated hymns. And then sounded the
kettle-drum, beaten by a golden stick, announcing the departure of the
night; and people sounded conchs and other instruments by hundreds
furnished with soft and loud sounds. And as if fillihg the heavens,
those powerful blasts of the trumpet repeatedly rendered Bharata burning
in grief the more aggrieved. Then awaking and silencing those sounds
with saying--"I am not the king," he said unto Satrughna, "Behold, O
Satrughna, in what a mighty wrong the people are engaged, on account of
Kaikeyi. The king Dacaratha has gone away throwing down on me (the
burden of) this misery. The royal grace founded in righteousness of that
magnanimous and virtuous monarch is wandering even like a boat on water
having no helmsman. And he who is our mighty master hath been banished
into the woods by this mother of mine! who had (in doing so) renounced
virtue." Seeing Bharata lamenting thus senseless, the ladies afflicted
with sorrow began to wail in winsome accents. As Bharata Was mourning
thus, the highly famous and virtuous Vasishtha accompanied by his
disciples entered the court of the Ikshwaku king: built of entire gold,
charming, dazzling with gems and gold: like unto Sudharma itself.
Sitting down on a golden seat furnished with an elegant cover, that one
versed in all the Vedas commanded the envoys, saying,--"Do ye speedily
with collected minds bring hither Brahmanas and Kshatriyas and warriors
and counsellors and generals of forces and Satrughna with the other
princes, and the famous Bharata and Yudhajit[170] and Sumantra and
others that are engaged in our welfare." Then there arose a mighty
hubbub occasioned by people coming up in cars, horses and elephants. And
when Bharata arrived, the subjects rejoiced as they used to rejoice on
Dacaratha's arrival; and as rejoiced the immortals on the arrival of him
of an hundred sacrifices. And then the court resembling a moveless ocean
containing whales and serpents,[171] and gems and conchs and gold-mines,
being graced with the presence of Dacaratha's son, looked splendid as it
formerly did with that of Dacaratha himself.
[170] One of the counsellors.--T.
[171] _Naga_ may also mean hypopotamus.--T.
SECTION LXXXII.
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