The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki 2.71.4
Vālmīkirāmāyaṇa 2.71.4
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- Sanskrit
2.71.4
tataḥ prabhātasamaye divase 'tha trayodaśe
vilalāpa mahābāhur bharataḥ śokamūrchitaḥ
The tenth day passed: the prince again
Was free from every legal stain.
Ha bade them on the twelfth the great
Remaining honour celebrate.
Much gold he gave, and gems, and food,
To all the Bráhman multitude,
And goats whose hair was white and fine,
And many a thousand head of kine:
Slaves, men and damsels, he bestowed,
And many a car and fair abode:
Such gifts he gave the Bráhman race
His father's obsequies to grace.
Then when the morning's earliest ray
Appeared upon the thirteenth day,
Again the hero wept and sighed
Distraught and sorrow-stupefied;
Drew, sobbing in his anguish, near,
The last remaining debt to clear,
And at the bottom of the pyre,
He thus bespake his royal sire:
'O father, hast thou left me so,
Deserted in my friendless woe,
When he to whom the charge was given
To keep me, to the wood is driven?
Her only son is forced away
Who was his helpless mother's stay:
Translations (1)
- The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1870, English
Commentaries (7)
- Rāmāyaṇabhūṣaṇa — Govindarāja, Sanskrit
- Tilaka — Nāgeśa Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
- Dharmākūtam — Tryambaka Makhin, Sanskrit
- Dharmākūtam — Tryambaka, Sanskrit
- Kalpavallikā — Bommakanti Nṛsiṃhaśāstrin, Sanskrit
- Rāmāyaṇaṭīkā — Nṛsiṃha, Sanskrit
- Munibhāvaprakāśikā — Sanskrit
Other recensions (2)
- Critical edition, Ayodhyā- and Araṇyakāṇḍa (revised e-text) — Sanskrit
- Southern recension — Sanskrit
Linked texts (1)
- Epic Mythology — Edward Washburn Hopkins, English