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Valmiki Ramayana 4.16.2

Vālmīkirāmāyaṇa 4.16.2

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Sanskrit

4.16.2

garjato 'sya ca saṃrambhaṃ bhrātuḥ śatror viśeṣataḥ
marṣayiṣyāmy ahaṃ kena kāraṇena varānane

Thus Tárá with the starry eyes
Her counsel gave with burning sighs.
But Báli, by her prayers unmoved,
Spurned her advice, and thus reproved:
'How may this insult, scathe, aud scorn
By me, dear love, be tamely born?
My brother, yea my foe, comes nigh
Aud dares me forth with shout and cry.
Learn, trembler! that the valiant, they
Who yield no step in battle fray,
Will die a thousand deaths but ne'er
An unavenged dishonour bear.
Nor, O my love, be thou dismayed
Though Ráma lend Sugríva aid,
For one so pure and duteous, one
Who loves the right, all sin will shun,
Release me from thy soft embrace,
And with thy dames thy steps retrace:
Enough already, O mine own,
Of love and sweet devotion shown.
Drive all thy fear and doubt away;
I seek Sugríva in the fray
His boisterous rage and pride to still,
And tame the foe I would not kill.
My fury, armed with brandished trees,
Shall strike Sugríva to his knees:

Ralph T. H. Griffith 1870, The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse

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