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# Ayodhya Kand · Doha 47

**चौ०** 
> मिलेहि माझ बिधि बात बेगारी। जहँ तहँ देहिं कैकइहि गारी॥  
> एहि पापिनिहि बूझि का परेऊ। छाइ भवन पर पावकु धरेऊ॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> निज कर नयन काढ़ि चह दीखा। डारि सुधा बिषु चाहत चीखा॥  
> कुटिल कठोर कुबुद्धि अभागी। भइ रघुबंस बेनु बन आगी॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> पालव बैठि पेड़ एहिं काटा। सुख महुँ सोक ठाटु धरि ठाटा॥  
> सदा रामु एहि प्रान समाना। कारन कवन कुटिलपनु ठाना॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> सत्य कहहिं कबि नारि सुभाऊ। सब बिधि अगहु अगाध दुराऊ॥  
> निज प्रतिबिंबु बरुकु गहि जाई। जानि न जाइ नारि गति भाई॥४॥

Meaning: ‘When everything was ready, God upset the whole plan!’ Everywhere people abused Kaikeyī. “What evil impulse could there be in this wicked woman having set fire to a thatched house. (1)

“She seeks to perceive after tearing out her eyes with her own hands, and wishes to taste poison throwing away nectar. This crooked, hard-hearted and evil-minded wretch has appeared as fire to burn the cluster of bamboos in the shape of Raghu’s race. (2)

“Sitting on a twig she has hewn the tree itself; in the midst of joy she has raised a structure of sorrow. Śrī Rāma had always been dear to her as life: What has led her to resort to such perversity? (3)

“Seers have truly said that a woman’s mind is altogether incomprehensible, unfathomable and shrouded in mystery. Sooner may a man catch his own reflection than know the ways of a woman! (4)

**दो०** 
> काह न पावकु जारि सक का न समुद्र समाइ।  
> का न करै अबला प्रबल केहि जग कालु न खाइ॥४७॥

Meaning: “What is there that fire cannot consume; what is there that cannot be engulfed by the ocean? What is there that a powerful woman, inappropriately called powerless (abalā) in common parlance, cannot accomplish and what creature is there in this perishable world that death does not devour? (47)

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