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# Bal Kand · Doha 272

**चौ०** 
> लखन कहा हँसि हमरें जाना। सुनहु देव सब धनुष समाना॥  
> का छति लाभु जून धनु तोरें। देखा राम नयन के भोरें॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> छुअत टूट रघुपतिहु न दोसू। मुनि बिनु काज करिअ कत रोसू॥  
> बोले चितइ परसु की ओरा। रे सठ सुनेहि सुभाउ न मोरा॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> बालकु बोलि बधउँ नहिं तोही। केवल मुनि जड़ जानहि मोही॥  
> बाल ब्रह्मचारी अति कोही। बिस्व बिदित छत्रियकुल द्रोही॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> भुजबल भूमि भूप बिनु कीन्ही। बिपुल बार महिदेवन्ह दीन्ही॥  
> सहसबाहु भुज छेदनिहारा। परसु बिलोकु महीपकुमारा॥४॥

Meaning: Said Lakṣmaṇa with a smile, “Listen, holy Sir, to my mind all bows are alike. What gain or loss can there be in the breaking of a worn-out bow? Śrī Rāma mistook it for a new one, (1)

“and at His very touch it broke into two; Śrī Rāma, therefore, is not to be blamed for it either. Why, then, be angry, Reverend Sir, for no cause?” Casting a glance at his axe, Paraśurāma replied, “O foolish child, have you never heard of my temper? (2)

“I slay you not because, as I see, you are a child yet; do you take me for a mere anchorite, O dullard? I have not only been a celibate from my very boyhood, but also an irascible one; and I am known throughout the world as a sworn enemy of the Kṣatriya race. (3)

“By the might of my arm I made the earth kingless and bestowed it time and again upon the Brāhmaṇas. Look at this axe, which lopped off the arms of Sahasrabāhu (the thousand-armed Kārtavīrya), O youthful prince. (4)

**दो०** 
> मातु पितहि जनि सोचबस करसि महीसकिसोर।  
> गर्भन्ह के अर्भक दलन परसु मोर अति घोर॥२७२॥

Meaning: “Do not bring woe to your parents, O princely lad; My most cruel axe has exterminated even unborn offsprings in the womb.” (272)

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