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Baal Kaanda The princes' failure to lift the bow and Janaka's despondent utterance - Chaupais

Ramcharitmanas · Baal Kaanda The princes' failure to lift the bow and Janaka's despondent utterance · Verse Chaupais 1980

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Sanskrit Original

कहहु काहि यहु लाभु न भावा। काहुँ न संकर चाप चढ़ावा।। रहउ चढ़ाउब तोरब भाई। तिलु भरि भूमि न सके छड़ाई।। अब जनि कोउ माखै भट मानी। बीर बिहीन मही मैं जानी।। तजहु आस निज निज गृह जाहू। लिखा न बिधि बैदेहि बिबाहू।। सुकृत जाइ जौं पनु परिहरऊँ। कुअँरि कुआरि रहउ का करऊँ।। जो जनतेउँ बिनु भट भुबि भाई। तौ पनु करि होतेउँ न हँसाई।। जनक बचन सुनि सब नर नारी। देखि जानकिहि भए दुखारी।। माखे लखनु कुटिल भइँ भौंहें। रदपट फरकत नयन रिसौंहें।।

kahahu kāhi yahu lābhu na bhāvā. kāhu na saṃkara cāpa caḍhaāvā.. rahau caḍhaāuba tōraba bhāī. tilu bhari bhūmi na sakē chaḍaāī.. aba jani kōu mākhai bhaṭa mānī. bīra bihīna mahī maiṃ jānī.. tajahu āsa nija nija gṛha jāhū. likhā na bidhi baidēhi bibāhū.. sukṛta jāi jauṃ panu pariharaūom. kuaomri kuāri rahau kā karaūom.. jō janatēu binu bhaṭa bhubi bhāī. tau panu kari hōtēu na haomsāī.. janaka bacana suni saba nara nārī. dēkhi jānakihi bhaē dukhārī.. mākhē lakhanu kuṭila bhaiom bhauṃhēṃ. radapaṭa pharakata nayana risauṃhēṃ..

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Tell me, who would not have this prize? But none could string the bow. Let alone stringing or breaking it, there was not one of you, brothers, who could stir it even a grain's breadth from its place. Now no one who prides on his valour should feel offended if I assert that there is no hero left on earth to my mind. Give up all hope and turn your faces homewards. It is not the will of Providence that Sita should be married. All my religious merits shall be gone if I abandon my vow. The princess must remain a maid; what can I do? Had I known, brothers, that there are no more heroes in the world, I would not have made myself a laughing-stock by undertaking such a vow." All who heared Janaka's words, men and women alike, felt distressed at the sight of Janaki. Laksmana, however got incensed: his eyebrows were knit, his lips quivered and his eyes shot fire.