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# Ayodhya Kand · Doha 179

**चौ०** 
> कहउँ साँचु सब सुनि पतिआहू। चाहिअ धरमसील नरनाहू॥  
> मोहि राजु हठि देइहहु जबहीं। रसा रसातल जाइहि तबहीं॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> मोहि समान को पापनिवासू। जेहि लगि सीय राम बनबासू॥  
> रायँ राम कहुँ काननु दीन्हा। बिछुरत गमनु अमरपुर कीन्हा॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> मैं सठु सब अनरथ कर हेतू। बैठ बात सब सुनउँ सचेतू॥  
> बिनु रघुबीर बिलोकि अबासू। रहे प्रान सहि जग उपहासू॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> राम पुनीत बिषय रस रूखे। लोलुप भूमि भोग के भूखे॥  
> कहँ लगि कहौं हृदय कठिनाई। निदरि कुलिसु जेहिं लही बड़ाई॥४॥

Meaning: “I tell you the truth: you should all listen and believe what I say. A virtuous man alone should be crowned as king. The moment you install me on the throne perforce, the earth will sink into the lowest depths. (1)

“Who is such an inveterate sinner as I, on whose account Sītā and Śrī Rāma have been exiled to the forest? The king sent Śrī Rāma into exile and himself ascended to heaven as soon as the latter left him. (2)

“My wretched self, who is the root of all evil, is sitting quietly and hears all talk unmoved. Even though I find the palace without Śrī Rāma, I have survived and endured the world’s jeers. (3)

“Devoid of attraction for Śrī Rāma, who is a sacred object of love, my soul is rapacious and hungers for land (dominion) and enjoyment. I have no words to depict the hardness of my heart that has attained notoriety by surpassing even adamant. (4)

**दो०** 
> कारन तें कारजु कठिन होइ दोसु नहिं मोर।  
> कुलिस अस्थि तें उपल तें लोह कराल कठोर॥१७९॥

Meaning: “An effect is as a rule harder than its cause; and I am not to blame for it. The thunderbolt* is more formidable and harder than bone (of which it is made), and iron than the rock (from which it is quarried). (179)

* The story as to how the thunderbolt was made out of the bones of the philanthropic sage Dadhīci (who gave up his life in the interest of the gods) has been told in the account of this sage, which appears in the footnote below the Caupāī 4, following Dohā 29, page 421.

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