Paumacariya 83
English (machine translation) 83
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83.1
Hearing those words of the supreme sage, Bharata and other great warriors, / seized with great spiritual urgency, turned toward initiation.
83.2
Meanwhile, Bharata stood up, his cheeks radiant with earrings; / joining his hands in the form of a lotus bud, freed from delusion, he bowed to the ascetic.
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Agitated with fear of saṃsāra, Bharata said then to that supreme sage: / “Lord, wandering through many thousands of wombs, I am exhausted!
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Of me who am being swept away in the river of saṃsāra with its surging waves of death, / O ascetic, provide a supporting hand with the hand of initiation!”
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Permitted by the guru, Bharata abandoned his ornaments there, / completely devoid of doubt, the steadfast [prince] plucked out his own hair.
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Endowed with the virtues of vows, restraints, good conduct, and self-restraint, Lord Bharata was initiated; / he was known as a great sage, along with over a thousand kings.
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Proclaiming “Sadhu, Sadhu!” the gods standing in the sky, / singing the praises of ascetic Bharata, released a continuous rain of flowers.
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Other best of men, full of spiritual urgency, accepted the lay doctrine. / In the meantime, Kaikeyī heard that Bharata had been initiated.
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She fainted, regained consciousness, and, afflicted with grief at separation from her son, / wailed pitifully with trembling shoulders, like a cow bereft of her calf.
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Together with the entire inner apartment, weeping, the chief queen Kaikeyī / was then consoled with sweet words by Rāma and Keśin.
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Then that noble woman, awakened, with intense spiritual urgency arisen [in her], / condemned her own body, which was revolting, foul, and ill-smelling.
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Together with three hundred women, near Āryā Pṛthvīsatyā, / she took renunciation with firm resolve, and attained the supreme state of perfection.
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Thus the people there, with well-purified souls, minds fixed on study of knowledge and vows, / full of great enthusiasm and capable, constantly practiced pure dharma.
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Thus ends the eighty-third chapter in the Paümacariya, titled “The Initiation of Bharata and Kaikeyī”.
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- Paümacariya — Vimalasūri, Māhārāṣṭrī Prakrit