Doha 212
एहि दुख दाहँ दहइ दिन छाती। भूख न बासर नीद न राती॥ एहि कुरोग कर औषधु नाहीं। सोधेउँ सकल बिस्व मन माहीं॥१॥
मातु कुमत बढ़ई अघ मूला। तेहिं हमार हित कीन्ह बँसूला॥ कलि कुकाठ कर कीन्ह कुजंत्रू। गाड़ि अवधि पढ़ि कठिन कुमंत्रू॥२॥
मोहि लगि यहु कुठाटु तेहिं ठाटा। घालेसि सब जगु बारहबाटा॥ मिटइ कुजोगु राम फिरि आएँ। बसइ अवध नहिं आन उपाएँ॥३॥
भरत बचन सुनि मुनि सुखु पाई। सबहिं कीन्हि बहु भाँति बड़ाई॥ तात करहु जनि सोचु बिसेषी। सब दुखु मिटिहि राम पग देखी॥४॥
Meaning
“It is this burning agony which is ever consuming my mind, so that I feel no appetite by day and get no sleep at night. For this fell disease there is no remedy: I have mentally ransacked the whole world. (1) “My mother’s evil design was like a sinful carpenter, who used my interests as an adze and fashioned out of the inauspicious wood of discord a destructive magical contrivance and muttering the terrible malevolent spell of Śrī Rāma’s exile for a term of fourteen years, planted it in the soil of Ayodhyā.* (2) * This evidently refers to a magical contrivance, intended to drive out an enemy from his home, in which wood is cut during a particular period from the tree known as the helleric myrobalan and after fashioning a pin out of it the same is planted in the enemy’s house with the recitaion of some spells. This is believed to bring the desired result. “It is for my sake that she employed this vicious contrivance and brought ruin on the whole world. This calamity will cease only when Śrī Rāma returns; by no other means can Ayodhyā thrive again.” (3) The sage, Bharadvāja, was gratified to hear Bharata’s words and everyone applauded him in several ways. “Grieve not, dear child; all your woes will disappear the moment you behold Śrī Rāma’s feet.” (4)
करि प्रबोधु मुनिबर कहेउ अतिथि पेमप्रिय होहु। कंद मूल फल फूल हम देहिं लेहु करि छोहु॥२१२॥
Meaning
After comforting him thus, the chief of the sages, Bharadvāja, said, “Be my beloved guest and deign to accept the bulbs, roots, fruits and flowers that we may offer you.” (212)
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