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# Bal Kand · Doha 275

**चौ०** 
> तुम्ह तौ कालु हाँक जनु लावा। बार बार मोहि लागि बोलावा॥  
> सुनत लखन के बचन कठोरा। परसु सुधारि धरेउ कर घोरा॥१॥

**चौ०** 
> अब जनि देइ दोसु मोहि लोगू। कटुबादी बालकु बधजोगू॥  
> बाल बिलोकि बहुत मैं बाँचा। अब यहु मरनिहार भा साँचा॥२॥

**चौ०** 
> कौसिक कहा छमिअ अपराधू। बाल दोष गुन गनहिं न साधू॥  
> खर कुठार मैं अकरुन कोही। आगें अपराधी गुरुद्रोही॥३॥

**चौ०** 
> उतर देत छोड़उँ बिनु मारें। केवल कौसिक सील तुम्हारें॥  
> न त एहि काटि कुठार कठोरें। गुरहि उरिन होतेउँ श्रम थोरें॥४॥

Meaning: “You seem to have Death at your beck and call and summon him again and again for my sake”. Hearing Lakṣmaṇa’s harsh words Paraśurāma closed his hand upon his terrible axe. (1)

“After this no one should blame me; this sharp-tongued boy deserves his death. I have spared him long on account of his being a child; he is now surely going to die.” (2)

Said Viśvāmitra, “Pardon his offence; holy men take no notice of the merits and demerits of a child.” “Sharp-edged is my axe, while I am pitiless and furious; and here stands before me an offender and an enemy of my Guru. (3)

“Even though he gives a retort, I spare his life solely out of regard for you, O Viśvāmitra. Or else, hacking him to pieces with this cruel axe, I would have easily repaid the debt I have owed to my Guru.” (4)

**दो०** 
> गाधिसूनु कह हृदयँ हँसि मुनिहि हरिअरइ सूझ।  
> अयमय खाँड़ न ऊखमय अजहुँ न बूझ अबूझ॥२७५॥

Meaning: Said Viśvāmitra smiling within himself, ‘Everything looks green to sage Paraśurāma; it is, however, the steel sword that he is faced with and not with sugar extracted from sugar-cane (that one could easily gulp). It is a pity that he does not understand and still persists in his ignorance*.’ (275)

* This has reference to a popular saying “A man who loses his eyesight in the month of Śrāvaṇa (corresponding roughly to August), when the whole landscape is green, visualizes everything as green.” Viśvāmitra thereby suggests that Paraśurāma was blind so far as the greatness of Śrī Rāma is concerned and imagined that the latter was as easy to handle as the other Kṣatriyas whom he could easily vanquish in battle. Again, there is a pun on the word ‘Khāṇḍa’ in the original, which means both a sword and sugar.

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