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# Ayodhya Kand · Doha 33

**चौ०** 
> जिऐ मीन बरु बारि बिहीना। मनि बिनु फनिकु जिऐ दुख दीना॥  
> कहउँ सुभाउ न छलु मन माहीं। जीवनु मोर राम बिनु नाहीं॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> समुझि देखु जियँ प्रिया प्रबीना। जीवनु राम दरस आधीना॥  
> सुनि मृदु बचन कुमति अति जरई। मनहुँ अनल आहुति घृत परई॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> कहइ करहु किन कोटि उपाया। इहाँ न लागिहि राउरि माया॥  
> देहु कि लेहु अजसु करि नाहीं। मोहि न बहुत प्रपंच सोहाहीं॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> रामु साधु तुम्ह साधु सयाने। राममातु भलि सब पहिचाने॥  
> जस कौसिलाँ मोर भल ताका। तस फलु उन्हहि देउँ करि साका॥४॥

Meaning: “A fish may rather survive even without water and a serpent may drag on a miserable and wretched existence without the gem on its head; but I tell you sincerely with a guileless heart that I cannot live without Rāma. (1)

“Be assured in your mind, my wise darling, that my very existence depends on the sight of Śrī Rāma.” Hearing these soft words the evil-minded queen blazed up like the fire on which has fallen an oblation of clarified butter. (2)

She said, “You might as well try millions of devices; but your stratagem shall not avail with me. Either grant my claim or earn a bad reputation by refusing it; I am not fond of much wiles. (3)

“Rāma is virtuous, you too are virtuous and wise and no less virtuous is Rāma’s mother (Kausalyā); I have known all of you. I will repay with a vengeance the ‘welfare’ she has sought to confer upon me. (4)

**दो०** 
> होत प्रातु मुनिबेष धरि जौं न रामु बन जाहिं।  
> मोर मरनु राउर अजस नृप समुझिअ मन माहिं॥३३॥

Meaning: “If Rāma does not retire to the woods assuming the garb of a hermit as soon as the day breaks, death for me and ill-repute for you will be the result: bear this in mind, O king.” (33)

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