Doha 49
परिहरि बयरु देहु बैदेही। भजहु कृपानिधि परम सनेही॥ ताके बचन बान सम लागे। करिआ मुह करि जाहि अभागे॥१॥
बूढ़ भएसि न त मरतेउँ तोही। अब जनि नयन देखावसि मोही॥ तेहिं अपने मन अस अनुमाना। बध्यो चहत एहि कृपानिधाना॥२॥
सो उठि गयउ कहत दुर्बादा। तब सकोप बोलेउ घननादा॥ कौतुक प्रात देखिअहु मोरा। करिहउँ बहुत कहौं का थोरा॥३॥
सुनि सुत बचन भरोसा आवा। प्रीति समेत अंक बैठावा॥ करत बिचार भयउ भिनुसारा। लागे कपि पुनि चहूँ दुआरा॥४॥
कोपि कपिन्ह दुर्घट गढ़ु घेरा। नगर कोलाहलु भयउ घनेरा॥ बिबिधायुध धर निसिचर धाए। गढ़ ते पर्बत सिखर ढहाए॥५॥
Meaning
“Giving up all quarrel with Śrī Rāma, restore Jānakī to Him and worship the All-merciful, who has a most loving disposition.” His words stung Rāvaṇa like shafts. “Away, wretch, with your accursed face. (1) “If it were not for your age, I would have finished you; now do not appear before my eyes again.” Mālyavān, however, thought within himself that the All-merciful would kill him soon. (2) He, therefore, got up and departed, swearing at Rāvaṇa as he went. Meghanāda thereupon exclaimed in a fury : “See what wonders I work the very next morning. I am going to accomplish much; why should I, therefore, belittle its worth by speaking of it just now?” (3) Confidence returned to Rāvaṇa when he heard his son’s words, and he lovingly took him into his lap. The day broke even while they deliberated, and the monkeys again assailed the four gates. (4) In their fury they laid siege to the most powerful citadel. This gave rise to an uproarious alarm in the city. The demons darted forward with their weapons of various descriptions and hurled down mountain-peaks from the ramparts. (5)
ढाहे महीधर सिखर कोटिन्ह बिबिध बिधि गोला चले। घहरात जिमि पबिपात गर्जत जनु प्रलय के बादले॥ मर्कट बिकट भट जुटत कटत न लटत तन जर्जर भए। गहि सैल तेहि गढ़ पर चलावहिं जहँ सो तहँ निसिचर हए॥
Meaning
The demons hurled mountain-peaks in myriads and fired bomb-shells of every description, which came roaring like a crash of thunder, while the contending warriors roared like the clouds on the day of universal destruction. Fierce monkey-warriors combated with their adversaries and had their bodies severely wounded and badly battered; yet they languished not. Seizing rocks, they hurled them against the fort; and the demons fell to them wherever they stood.
मेघनाद सुनि श्रवन अस गढ़ु पुनि छेंका आइ। उतर्यो बीर दुर्ग तें सन्मुख चल्यो बजाइ॥ ४९ ॥
Meaning
When Meghanāda heard that the monkeys had come and besieged the fort again, the hero came down the fort and sallied forth with beat of drum to meet the enemy face to face. (49)
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