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# Ayodhya Kand · Doha 153

**चौ०** 
> तेहि अवसर रघुबर रुख पाई। केवट पारहि नाव चलाई॥  
> रघुकुलतिलक चले एहि भाँती। देखउँ ठाढ़ कुलिस धरि छाती॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> मैं आपन किमि कहौं कलेसू। जिअत फिरेउँ लेइ राम सँदेसू॥  
> अस कहि सचिव बचन रहि गयऊ। हानि गलानि सोच बस भयऊ॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> सूत बचन सुनतहिं नरनाहू। परेउ धरनि उर दारुन दाहू॥  
> तलफत बिषम मोह मन मापा। माजा मनहुँ मीन कहुँ ब्यापा॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> करि बिलाप सब रोवहिं रानी। महा बिपति किमि जाइ बखानी॥  
> सुनि बिलाप दुखहू दुखु लागा। धीरजहू कर धीरजु भागा॥४॥

Meaning: “At this moment, in response to a hint from Śrī Rāma, the boatman propelled the boat towards the opposite bank. So departed Śrī Rāma, the Crown of Raghu’s race, while I stood looking on with a heavy load on my heart. (1)

“How am I to describe my own anguish in that I came back alive bearing Śrī Rāma’s message?” At this stage Sumantra’s speech failed him, overpowered as he was by grief and remorse due to separation from Śrī Rāma. (2)

No sooner had he heard the charioteer’s report than the king dropped to the ground, his heart writhing with deep anguish. His mind being extremely agitated by excessive infatuation, he tossed about like a fish that had been inebriated by sucking the foam of early rain water (which is intoxicating to the fish). (3)

All the queens wailed and wept; how can their great calamity be described? At the sound of their wails sorrow itself was sorrowful and endurance could no longer endure. (4)

**दो०** 
> भयउ कोलाहलु अवध अति सुनि नृप राउर सोरु।  
> बिपुल बिहग बन परेउ निसि मानहु कुलिस कठोरु॥१५३॥

Meaning: Ayodhyā was in great tumult at the sound of the outcry in the royal gynaeceum: it seemed as if a cruel thunderbolt had fallen at night on a large habitat of birds. (153)

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