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# Ayodhya Kand · Doha 19

**चौ०** 
> भावी बस प्रतीति उर आई। पूँछ रानि पुनि सपथ देवाई॥  
> का पूँछहु तुम्ह अबहुँ न जाना। निज हित अनहित पसु पहिचाना॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> भयउ पाखु दिन सजत समाजू। तुम्ह पाई सुधि मोहि सन आजू॥  
> खाइअ पहिरिअ राज तुम्हारें। सत्य कहें नहिं दोषु हमारें॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> जौं असत्य कछु कहब बनाई। तौ बिधि देइहि हमहि सजाई॥  
> रामहि तिलक कालि जौं भयऊ। तुम्ह कहुँ बिपति बीजु बिधि बयऊ॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> रेख खँचाइ कहउँ बलु भाषी। भामिनि भइहु दूध कइ माखी॥  
> जौं सुत सहित करहु सेवकाई। तौ घर रहहु न आन उपाई॥४॥

Meaning: As fate would have it, the queen felt assured in her heart of Mantharā’s fidelity; adjuring her by her own life she questioned Mantharā once more. “What is it that you inquire about? It is strange that you should not understand things even now! Even a quadruped knows what is good or bad for it. (1)

“Preparations have been going on for the last fortnight; while you have got the news from me today. I get my livelihood under your tutelage; hence I be not blamed for speaking the truth. (2)

“If I tell a lie giving it the colour of truth, God will punish me for the same. Should Rāma’s installation take place tomorrow, Providence will have sown the seed of adversity for you. (3)

“I swear and tell you most emphatically, O lady, that you have been discarded now as a fly from a cup of milk. If you and your son accept the role of menials, then alone you will be allowed to stay in the house; and in no other circumstance. (4)

**दो०** 
> कद्रूँ बिनतहि दीन्ह दुखु तुम्हहि कौसिलाँ देब।  
> भरतु बंदिगृह सेइहहिं लखनु राम के नेब॥१९॥

Meaning: “Kadrū (the progenitress of the serpent race) persecuted her co-wife Vinatā* (mother of the whole feathered kingdom); so will Kausalyā tyrannize over you. Bharata will rot in prison, while Lakṣmaṇa will be Rāma’s lieutenant.” (19)

* The names Kadrū and Vinatā take us back to the beginning of creation. The Purāṇas (a class of sacred literature dealing with the history of the entire cosmos and wrongly supposed by modern critics both in India and abroad to be works on mythology) declare that the different species of living beings from celestials down to the tiniest insect took their common descent from the sage Kaśyapa through different mothers. Of them Kadrū gave birth to the race of serpents, while Vinatā brought forth the winged creation. Once there was a controversy between the two ladies about the colour of the tail of the celestial horse Uccaiḥśravā. Vinatā insisted that the horse was white in colour while Kadrū maintained that it was dark. It was mutually agreed that the lady whose version proved untrue should serve the other as a handmaid for the rest of her life. When Kadrū came to know that the horse was really white in colour, she managed to hoodwink the guileless Vinatā by asking her sons (the cobra race) to cover the tail of Uccaiḥśravā by their own dark forms and thus lending it a dark hue. Vinatā was thus made to serve her co-wife for a number of years and suffered great persecution at her hands, till she was liberated by Garuḍa (Vinatā’s powerful son and the celebrated vehicle of Bhagavān Viṣṇu). The story is told at length in the Ādiparva of the Mahābhārata.

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