Ayodhya Kaanda Dialogue between Bharata and mother Kausalya and king Dasaratha's cremation - Chaupais
Ramcharitmanas · Ayodhya Kaanda Dialogue between Bharata and mother Kausalya and king Dasaratha's cremation · Verse Chaupais 1889
Sanskrit Original
बिलपहिं बिकल भरत दोउ भाई। कौसल्याँ लिए हृदयँ लगाई।। भाँति अनेक भरतु समुझाए। कहि बिबेकमय बचन सुनाए।। भरतहुँ मातु सकल समुझाईं। कहि पुरान श्रुति कथा सुहाईं।। छल बिहीन सुचि सरल सुबानी। बोले भरत जोरि जुग पानी।। जे अघ मातु पिता सुत मारें। गाइ गोठ महिसुर पुर जारें।। जे अघ तिय बालक बध कीन्हें। मीत महीपति माहुर दीन्हें।। जे पातक उपपातक अहहीं। करम बचन मन भव कबि कहहीं।। ते पातक मोहि होहुँ बिधाता। जौं यहु होइ मोर मत माता।।
bilapahiṃ bikala bharata dōu bhāī. kausalyāom liē hṛdayaom lagāī.. bhāomti anēka bharatu samujhāē. kahi bibēkamaya bacana sunāē.. bharatahu mātu sakala samujhāīṃ. kahi purāna śruti kathā suhāīṃ.. chala bihīna suci sarala subānī. bōlē bharata jōri juga pānī.. jē agha mātu pitā suta mārēṃ. gāi gōṭha mahisura pura jārēṃ.. jē agha tiya bālaka badha kīnhēṃ. mīta mahīpati māhura dīnhēṃ.. jē pātaka upapātaka ahahīṃ. karama bacana mana bhava kabi kahahīṃ.. tē pātaka mōhi hōhu bidhātā. jauṃ yahu hōi mōra mata mātā..
Much agitated, the two brothers, Bharata and Satrughna, loudly lamented and Kausalya clasped them to her bosom. She comforted Bharata in many ways and tendered words of wisdom to him. Bharata too in his turn consoled all his mothers, narrating legends from the Puranas and Vedas. Joining both his palms he addressed them in guileless, innocent, simple and charming words: "The sins attaching to the murder of one's mother, father or son and to the act of setting fire to a cowpen or a village of Brahmanas, and those incurred by slaying a woman or child and by administering poison to a friend or a monarch, nay, all the major and minor sins of thought, word or deed, that have been enumerated by the seers,-let all such sins be mine if, my mother, this plot has my concurrence."