Baal Kaanda Dialogue between the sages - Yajnavalkya and Bharadvaja and the greatness of Prayaga - Chaupais
Ramcharitmanas · Baal Kaanda Dialogue between the sages - Yajnavalkya and Bharadvaja and the greatness of Prayaga · Verse Chaupais 1551
Sanskrit Original
जैसे मिटै मोर भ्रम भारी। कहहु सो कथा नाथ बिस्तारी।। जागबलिक बोले मुसुकाई। तुम्हहि बिदित रघुपति प्रभुताई।। राममगत तुम्ह मन क्रम बानी। चतुराई तुम्हारी मैं जानी।। चाहहु सुनै राम गुन गूढ़ा। कीन्हिहु प्रस्न मनहुँ अति मूढ़ा।। तात सुनहु सादर मनु लाई। कहउँ राम कै कथा सुहाई।। महामोहु महिषेसु बिसाला। रामकथा कालिका कराला।। रामकथा ससि किरन समाना। संत चकोर करहिं जेहि पाना।। ऐसेइ संसय कीन्ह भवानी। महादेव तब कहा बखानी।।
jaisē miṭai mōra bhrama bhārī. kahahu sō kathā nātha bistārī.. jāgabalika bōlē musukāī. tumhahi bidita raghupati prabhutāī.. rāmamagata tumha mana krama bānī. caturāī tumhārī maiṃ jānī.. cāhahu sunai rāma guna gūḍhaā. kīnhihu prasna manahu ati mūḍhaā.. tāta sunahu sādara manu lāī. kahau rāma kai kathā suhāī.. mahāmōhu mahiṣēsu bisālā. rāmakathā kālikā karālā.. rāmakathā sasi kirana samānā. saṃta cakōra karahiṃ jēhi pānā.. aisēi saṃsaya kīnha bhavānī. mahādēva taba kahā bakhānī..
Tell me in detail, my master, the story whereby my overwhelming perplexity may be overcome. Yajnavalkya smilingly said, The glory of the Lord of Raghus is already known to you. You are a devotee of Rma in thought, word and deed; I have come to know your ingenuity. You wish to hear an account of the hidden virtues of Rma; that is why you have questioned me as if you were quite ignorant. Listen, then, with devout attention, my child, while I narrate the beautiful story of Rma. Appalling ignorance is the gigantic demon Mahi¦sura (so-called because he was endowed with the form of a buffalo); while the narrative of Rma is the dread Klik* (who made short work of the demon). The story of Rma is like the moonbeams that are drunk in by Cakora bird in the form of saints. A similar doubt was expressed by no less a personage than Bhavns (Goddess Parvati), and the great God Siva then expounded the matter in detail . (1-4)