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# Ayodhya Kand · Doha 34

**चौ०** 
> अस कहि कुटिल भई उठि ठाढ़ी। मानहुँ रोष तरंगिनि बाढ़ी॥  
> पाप पहार प्रगट भइ सोई। भरी क्रोध जल जाइ न जोई॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> दोउ बर कूल कठिन हठ धारा। भवँर कूबरी बचन प्रचारा॥  
> ढाहत भूपरूप तरु मूला। चली बिपति बारिधि अनुकूला॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> लखी नरेस बात फुरि साँची। तिय मिस मीचु सीस पर नाची॥  
> गहि पद बिनय कीन्ह बैठारी। जनि दिनकर कुल होसि कुठारी॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> मागु माथ अबहीं देउँ तोही। राम बिरहँ जनि मारसि मोही॥  
> राखु राम कहुँ जेहि तेहि भाँती। नाहिं त जरिहि जनम भरि छाती॥४॥

Meaning: So saying, the wicked woman Kaikeyī rose and stood up as though it were a swollen stream of passion that had issued from the mountain of sin and, overflowing with the water of anger, was too terrible to look at. (1)

The two boons she had asked for represented its banks, her inexorable obstinacy corresponded to its swift current and the impelling force of Mantharā’s words stood for its eddies; uprooting the king like a tree, the river headed towards the ocean of adversity.(2)

The king now perceived that the mater was serious, and that it was death itself which was hovering over his head in the disguise of his own consort. Clasping her feet he persuaded her to sit down and implored her, “Pray! do not be the axe with respect to the solar race. (3)

“Ask of me my own head and I will forthwith give it to you; but kill me not by tearing away Rāma from me. Retain Rāma by any means whatsoever, or your bosom will burn with anguish all your life.” (4)

**दो०** 
> देखी ब्याधि असाध नृपु परेउ धरनि धुनि माथ।  
> कहत परम आरत बचन राम राम रघुनाथ॥३४॥

Meaning: When the king saw the malady incurable, he dropped on the ground beating his head and sobbing out in most piteous tones, “Rāma, O Rāma, O Raghunātha!” (34)

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