Doha 23
Kaikeyī enters the sulking-chamber
कुबरिहि रानि प्रानप्रिय जानी। बार बार बड़ि बुद्धि बखानी॥ तोहि सम हित न मोर संसारा। बहे जात कइ भइसि अधारा॥१॥
जौं बिधि पुरब मनोरथु काली। करौं तोहि चख पूतरि आली॥ बहुबिधि चेरिहि आदरु देई। कोपभवन गवनी कैकेई॥२॥
बिपति बीजु बरषा रितु चेरी। भुइँ भइ कुमति कैकई केरी॥ पाइ कपट जलु अंकुर जामा। बर दोउ दल दुख फल परिनामा॥३॥
कोप समाजु साजि सबु सोई। राजु करत निज कुमति बिगोई॥ राउर नगर कोलाहलु होई। यह कुचालि कछु जान न कोई॥४॥
Meaning
Holding the humpback dear as life, the queen applauded her uncommon shrewdness again and again. “I have no such well-wisher as you in the whole world,” she said. “You have served as a prop to one who was drifting along a stream. (1) “If God fulfils my heart’s desire tomorrow, I will cherish you, my dear, as the apple of my eye.” Thus lavishing every term of endearment on her maid-servant, Kaikeyī retired to the sulking-room. (2) Discord was the seed and the maid-servant (Mantharā) the rainy season, while the evil mind of Kaikeyī served as the soil. Fed by the water of wiliness, the seed took root and sprouted with the two boons as its leaves and will eventually bear the fruit of adversity.(3) Gathering about her every token of indignation, Kaikeyī lay down on the floor in the sulking-room; while enjoying sovereignty, she was betrayed by her wicked mind. There was great rejoicing in the gynaeceum as well as in the city; nobody had any inkling of this evil design. (4)
प्रमुदित पुर नर नारि सब सजहिं सुमंगलचार। एक प्रबिसहिं एक निर्गमहिं भीर भूप दरबार॥२३॥
Meaning
In their ecstasy of joy all the citizens, both men and women, busied themselves with festive preparations and the entrance to the royal palace was flooded with a continuous stream of people going in and coming out. (23)
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