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# Ayodhya Kand · Doha 20

**चौ०** 
> कैकयसुता सुनत कटु बानी। कहि न सकइ कछु सहमि सुखानी॥  
> तन पसेउ कदली जिमि काँपी। कुबरीं दसन जीभ तब चाँपी॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> कहि कहि कोटिक कपट कहानी। धीरजु धरहु प्रबोधिसि रानी॥  
> फिरा करमु प्रिय लागि कुचाली। बकिहि सराहइ मानि मराली॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> सुनु मंथरा बात फुरि तोरी। दहिनि आँखि नित फरकइ मोरी॥  
> दिन प्रति देखउँ राति कुसपने। कहउँ न तोहि मोह बस अपने॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> काह करौं सखि सूध सुभाऊ। दाहिन बाम न जानउँ काऊ॥४॥

Meaning: Hearing these awful remarks, Kaikeyī shrivelled with fear and could not utter a word. Her body was wet with perspiration and shook like a plantain stalk. The humpback then bit her tongue (for fear lest the gloomy picture drawn by her might break Kaikeyī’s heart). (1)

Telling her, one after another, many a story of wiles, Mantharā comforted the queen and asked her to be of good cheer. At last the tide turned and Kaikeyī conceived a fondness for perversity; she applauded a heron mistaking it for a swan. (2)

“Listen, O Mantharā; what you say is quite true. My right eye ever throbs and I have an evil dream every night; but in my folly I did not tell you. (3)

“I cannot help it, my friend; I am so guileless by nature. I cannot distinguish a friend from a foe. (4)

**दो०** 
> अपनें चलत न आजु लगि अनभल काहुक कीन्ह।  
> केहिं अघ एकहि बार मोहि दैअँ दुसह दुखु दीन्ह॥२०॥

Meaning: “Never to this day have I done an evil turn to anybody during my ascendancy. I wonder for what offence has Providence subjected me to such terrible suffering all at once. (20)

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