Doha 276
बोरति ग्यान बिराग करारे। बचन ससोक मिलत नद नारे॥ सोच उसास समीर तरंगा। धीरज तट तरुबर कर भंगा॥१॥
बिषम बिषाद तोरावति धारा। भय भ्रम भवँर अबर्त अपारा॥ केवट बुध बिद्या बड़ि नावा। सकहिं न खेइ ऐक नहिं आवा॥२॥
बनचर कोल किरात बिचारे। थके बिलोकि पथिक हियँ हारे॥ आश्रम उदधि मिली जब जाई। मनहुँ उठेउ अंबुधि अकुलाई॥३॥
सोक बिकल दोउ राज समाजा। रहा न ग्यानु न धीरजु लाजा॥ भूप रूप गुन सील सराही। रोवहिं सोक सिंधु अवगाही॥४॥
Meaning
The river of pathos flooded the banks of wisdom and dispassion and was joined in its course by tributary streams and rivulets in the form of sorrowful utterances. Sighs and lamentation severally represented the waves and the wind that uprooted the stout tree of fortitude standing on its banks. (1) It had deep sorrow for its swift current, while fear and delusion constituted its innumerable eddies and whirlpools. Boatmen in the form of the learned waited with big boats in the form of their learning; but they were unable to row them because they had no idea of its depth. (2) The Kolas and Kirātas that roamed about in the woods were the poor wayfarers who had lost heart at the sight of the turbulent stream and stood aghast. When the stream joined the ocean of the hermitage, the latter too surged up, as it were, with emotion. (3) The two royal hosts were so overtaken with grief that they had no wisdom, fortitude or bashfulness left. Extolling King Daśaratha’s comeliness of form, goodness and amiability they all wept and were plunged into an ocean of woe. (4)
अवगाहि सोक समुद्र सोचहिं नारि नर ब्याकुल महा। दै दोष सकल सरोष बोलहिं बाम बिधि कीन्हो कहा॥ सुर सिद्ध तापस जोगिजन मुनि देखि दसा बिदेह की। तुलसी न समरथु कोउ जो तरि सकै सरित सनेह की॥
Meaning
Plunged into an ocean of grief the men and women lamented in great anguish. They all angrily and reproachfully exclaimed, “Alas! What has cruel Fate done!” Of the gods, accomplished saints, ascetics, Yogīs (mystics) and anchorites, whoever witnessed the condition of Janaka on that occasion, none, says Tulasīdāsa, was strong enough to cross the river of love (i.e., escape being drowned in it).
किए अमित उपदेस जहँ तहँ लोगन्ह मुनिबरन्ह। धीरजु धरिअ नरेस कहेउ बसिष्ठ बिदेह सन॥२७६॥
Meaning
Here and there the great sages admonished people in innumerable ways; and the sage Vasiṣṭha said to Videha, “Be consoled, O king !” (276)
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