Doha 158
Arrival and lamentation of Bharata and Śatrughna
चले समीर बेग हय हाँके। नाघत सरित सैल बन बाँके॥ हृदयँ सोचु बड़ कछु न सोहाई। अस जानहिं जियँ जाउँ उड़ाई॥१॥
एक निमेष बरष सम जाई। एहि बिधि भरत नगर निअराई॥ असगुन होहिं नगर पैठारा। रटहिं कुभाँति कुखेत करारा॥२॥
खर सिआर बोलहिं प्रतिकूला। सुनि सुनि होइ भरत मन सूला॥ श्रीहत सर सरिता बन बागा। नगरु बिसेषि भयावनु लागा॥३॥
खग मृग हय गय जाहिं न जोए। राम बियोग कुरोग बिगोए॥ नगर नारि नर निपट दुखारी। मनहुँ सबन्हि सब संपति हारी॥४॥
Meaning
Urging the horses to run as fast as the wind, he went on his journey crossing difficult streams, hills and forests. There was such a great anxiety in his heart that nothing would please him. He thought to himself, “Would it be that I could fly home.” (1) Every moment hung heavy like a year. In this way Bharata drew near to the city. Evil omens occurred to him as he entered the city. Crows cawed in an ominous way at inauspicious places. (2) Donkeys and jackals gave a cry foreboding evil, and which pierced Bharata to the heart as he heard it. Lakes and rivers, groves and gardens had lost their charm; while the city wore a particularly dismal look. (3) Birds and fawns, horses and elephants were too wretched to look at, undone by the fell disease of separation from Śrī Rāma. The people of the city, both men and women, were extremely miserable as though all of them had lost everything they had in their possession. (4)
पुरजन मिलहिं न कहहिं कछु गवँहिं जोहारहिं जाहिं। भरत कुसल पूँछि न सकहिं भय बिषाद मन माहिं॥१५८॥
Meaning
The citizens met him but spoke not a word; they made obeisance and quietly passed on. Bharata too could not enquire after their welfare, his mind being obsessed with fear and grief. (158)
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