ශ්ලෝකඃ
ගීර්වාණෛරර්ථ්යමානෝ දශමුඛනිධනං කෝසලේෂ්වෘශ්යශෘංගේ
පුත්රීයාමිෂ්ටිමිෂ්ට්වා දදුෂි දශරථක්ෂ්මාභෘතේ පායසාග්ර්යම් ।
තද්භුක්ත්යා තත්පුරංධ්රීෂ්වපි තිසෘෂු සමං ජාතගර්භාසු ජාතෝ
රාමස්ත්වං ලක්ෂ්මණේන ස්වයමථ භරතේනාපි ශත්රුඝ්නනාම්නා ॥1॥
Meaning
ගීර්වාණෛඃ-අර්ථ්යමානඃ - by the Devas, (Thou) who were prayed to; දශමුඛ-නිධනං - for the destruction of Raavana; කෝසලේෂු-ඍශ්යශෘංගේ - in (the land of) Kosala, (when) sage Rishyashring; පුත්රීයාම්-ඉෂ්ටිම්-ඉෂ්ට්වා - the Putrakaameshti Yanjya had performed; දදුෂි දශරථ-ක්ෂ්මාභෘතේ - (he) gave to king Dashratha; පායස-අග්ර්යම් - the divine Paayasa (pudding); තත්-භුක්ත්යා - by eating which; තත්-පුරංධ්රීෂු-අපි තිසෘෂු - his three wives; සමං ජාතගර්භාසු - simultaneously conceived; ජාතඃ රාමඃ-ත්වං - (then) Thou were born as Raama; ලක්ෂ්මණේන ස්වයම්-අථ - then yourself as Lakshmana; භරතේන-අපි - also as Bharat; ශත්රුඝ්න-නාම්නා - (and) Shatrughna, by names;
Translation
The Devas prayed to Thee for the destruction of Raavana. In the kingdom of Kosala, the sage Rishyashringa performed the Putrakaameshti Ynjya on the request of the King Dashratha. From the Yanajya emerged the divine paayasa which the king distributed among his three wives, by eating it they conceived simultaneously. Thou were born to them as Raama, then yourself as Lakshmana ,also as Bharat, and Shatrughna, by these names.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
කෝදංඩී කෞශිකස්ය ක්රතුවරමවිතුං ලක්ෂ්මණේනානුයාතෝ
යාතෝऽභූස්තාතවාචා මුනිකථිතමනුද්වංද්වශාංතාධ්වඛේදඃ ।
නෘණාං ත්රාණාය බාණෛර්මුනිවචනබලාත්තාටකාං පාටයිත්වා
ලබ්ධ්වාස්මාදස්ත්රජාලං මුනිවනමගමෝ දේව සිද්ධාශ්රමාඛ්යම් ॥2॥
Meaning
කෝදංඩී - carrying the bow Kodanda; කෞශිකස්ය ක්රතුවරම්-අවිතුං - Vishwaamitra's great sacrifice to protect; ලක්ෂ්මණේන-අනුයාතඃ - followed by Lakshmana; යාතඃ-අභූඃ-තාත-වාචා - (Thou) proceeded at the bidding of (Thy) father; මුනි-කථිත-මනු-ද්වංද්ව- - instructed by the muni, the two Mantras (Bala & Atibala); ශාංත-අධ්ව-ඛේදඃ - to remove the fatigue of the way; නෘණාං ත්රාණාය බාණෛඃ- - for the protection of the people, with arrows; මුනි-වචන-බලාත්- - by the order of the muni; තාටකාං පාටයිත්වා - slayed Taatakaa; ලබ්ධ්වා-අස්මාත්- - received from him (the sage); අස්ත්ර-ජාලං - instructions into the use of several divine missiles; මුනි-වනම්-අගමඃ - with the sage went to the forest; දේව - Thou O Lord!; සිද්ධාශ්රම-ආඛ්යම් - to the hermitage known as Sidhaashrama;
Translation
At the bidding of Thy father, followed by Lakshmana, Thou proceeded to protect the great sacrifice of Vishwaamitra, carrying the bow Kodanda. To remove the fatigue of the way, the sage imparted two Mantraas -Bala and Atibala. By the order of the sage, for the relief of the men, Thou destroyed the demoness Taadakaa, with arrows. After receiving from the sage instructions in the use of several divine missiles, Thou went to the forest with the sage and then to the hermitage named Siddhaashrama.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
මාරීචං ද්රාවයිත්වා මඛශිරසි ශරෛරන්යරක්ෂාංසි නිඝ්නන්
කල්යාං කුර්වන්නහල්යාං පථි පදරජසා ප්රාප්ය වෛදේහගේහම් ।
භිංදානශ්චාංද්රචූඩං ධනුරවනිසුතාමිංදිරාමේව ලබ්ධ්වා
රාජ්යං ප්රාතිෂ්ඨථාස්ත්වං ත්රිභිරපි ච සමං භ්රාතෘවීරෛස්සදාරෛඃ ॥3॥
Meaning
මාරීචං ද්රාවයිත්වා - chasing away Maareecha; මඛ-ශිරසි ශරෛඃ- - at the beginning of the sacrificial rites, by arrows; අන්ය-රක්ෂාංසි නිඝ්නන් - killed the other Raakhsasa; කල්යාං කුර්වන්-අහල්යාං - and purified Ahilyaa of her sins; පථි පදරජසා - on the way by the dust of Thy feet; ප්රාප්ය වෛදේහ-ගේහම් - reaching Janaka's palace; භිංදානඃ-චාංද්රචූඩං ධනුඃ- - (and) breaking the bow of Shiva; අවනි-සුතාම්- - the daughter of the Earth (Seetaa); ඉංදිරාම්-ඒව ලබ්ධ්වා - (Who) was Lakshmi herself having won; රාජ්යං ප්රාතිෂ්ඨථාඃ-ත්වං - Thou set out for Thy kingdom; ත්රිභිඃ-අපි ච සමං - along with the three; භ්රාතෘවීරෛඃ-සදාරෛඃ - great brothers and their wives;
Translation
At the beginning of the sacrificial rites, Thou chased Maareecha and with arrows killed the other Raakshasas. On the way Thou purified Ahilyaa of her sins by the dust of Thy feet. On reaching Janaka's palace and breaking the bow of Shiva, Thou won Seetaa, the daughter of the earth, as Thy consort, who was Lakshmi herself. Along with the three great brothers and their wives Thou set out for Thy kingdom.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
ආරුංධානේ රුෂාංධේ භෘගුකුල තිලකේ සංක්රමය්ය ස්වතේජෝ
යාතේ යාතෝऽස්යයෝධ්යාං සුඛමිහ නිවසන් කාංතයා කාංතමූර්තේ ।
ශත්රුඝ්නේනෛකදාථෝ ගතවති භරතේ මාතුලස්යාධිවාසං
තාතාරබ්ධෝऽභිෂේකස්තව කිල විහතඃ කේකයාධීශපුත්ර්යා ॥4॥
Meaning
ආරුංධානේ රුෂාංධේ - Thou were confronted, blinded by rage; භෘගුකුල තිලකේ - by the foremost of the Bhrigu clan, Parashuraama; සංක්රමය්ය ස්වතේජඃ යාතේ - (in the end) transmitted all his powers to Thee and went away; යාතඃ-අසි-අයෝධ්යාං - Thou went to Ayodhyaa; සුඛම්-ඉහ නිවසන් කාංතයා - where Thou lived happily with Thy wife Seetaa; කාංතමූර්තේ - O Radiant Lord!; ශත්රුඝ්නේන-ඒකදා-අථඃ - then one day with Shatrughna; ගතවති භරතේ - when Bharat had gone; මාතුලස්ය-අධිවාසං - to his uncle's kingdom; තාත-ආරබ්ධඃ- - started by Thy father; අභිෂේකඃ-තව කිල විහතඃ - Thy coronation was obstructed; කේකය-අධීශ-පුත්ර්යා - by the daughter of the king of Kekaya, (Kekayee);
Translation
O Radiant Lord! Parashuraama, the foremost of the Bhrigu clan, confronted Thee with great anger and was defeated. He then transmitted all his powers to Thee and went away. Thou went to Ayodhyaa and lived happily with Thy consort Seetaa. Then one day, when Bharat along with Shatrughna had gone to his uncle's kingdom,Thy father fixed Thy coronation which was obstructed by the daughter of the king Kekaya, i.e., Kekayee.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
තාතෝක්ත්යා යාතුකාමෝ වනමනුජවධූසංයුතශ්චාපධාරඃ
පෞරානාරුධ්ය මාර්ගේ ගුහනිලයගතස්ත්වං ජටාචීරධාරී।
නාවා සංතීර්ය ගංගාමධිපදවි පුනස්තං භරද්වාජමාරා-
න්නත්වා තද්වාක්යහේතෝරතිසුඛමවසශ්චිත්රකූටේ ගිරීංද්රේ ॥5॥
Meaning
තාත-උක්ත්යා - to keep Thy father's words; යාතුකාමඃ වනම්- - desirous of going to the forest; අනුජ-වධූ-සංයුතඃ- - accompanied by Thy younger brother and wife; චාප-ධාරඃ - bearing a bow; පෞරාන්-ආරුධ්ය මාර්ගේ - sending back the citizens on the way; ගුහ-නිලය-ගතඃ-ත්වං - Thou went to the residence of Guha; ජටා-චීර-ධාරී - wearing matted hair and bark cloth; නාවා සංතීර්ය ගංගාම්- - crossing the Gangaa in a boat; අධිපදවි පුනඃ-තං - on the way again, him; භරද්වාජම්-ආරාත්-නත්වා - to Bharadwaaj who lived near by offered obeisance; තත්-වාක්ය-හේතෝඃ- - by his instructions; අති-සුඛම්-අවසඃ- - Thou lived very happily; චිත්රකූටේ ගිරීංද්රේ - on the great mountain Chitrakoot;
Translation
To keep Thy father's words Thou proceeded to go to the forest accompanied by Thy consort Seetaa, and brother Lakshmana, armed with a bow. The crowd of citizens stricken with grief, who followed Thee, Thou sent back and on the way went to the residence of Guha. In an ascetic garb of bark cloth and matted hair Thou crossed the Gangaa in a boat and paid obeisance to sage Bharadwaaja who lived near by. On the sage's instruction Thou camped on the great mountain Chitrakoota and lived there very happily.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
ශ්රුත්වා පුත්රාර්තිඛින්නං ඛලු භරතමුඛාත් ස්වර්ගයාතං ස්වතාතං
තප්තෝ දත්වාऽංබු තස්මෛ නිදධිථ භරතේ පාදුකාං මේදිනීං ච
අත්රිං නත්වාऽථ ගත්වා වනමතිවිපුලං දංඩකං චංඩකායං
හත්වා දෛත්යං විරාධං සුගතිමකලයශ්චාරු භෝඃ ශාරභංගීම් ॥6॥
Meaning
ශ්රුත්වා පුත්ර-ආර්ති-ඛින්නං - on hearing (that) saddened by the pain (of separation)of the son; ඛලු භරත-මුඛාත් - indeed from Bharat's mouth; ස්වර්ග-යාතං ස්ව-තාතං - about the death of Thy father; තප්තඃ දත්වා-අංබු තස්මෛ - tormented, (Thou) performed Tarpana for him; නිදධිථ භරතේ - bestowed on Bharata; පාදුකාං මේදිනීං ච - (Thy) sandals and the kingdom; අත්රිං නත්වා-අථ - paying homage to sage Atri, then; ගත්වා වනම්- - went to the forest; අති-විපුලං දංඩකං - Dandaka which was very vast; චංඩකායං - the ferocious bodied; හත්වා දෛත්යං විරාධං - Asura named Viraadha killing; ස්ගතිම්-අකලයඃ- - salvation bestowed; චාරු භෝඃ ශාරභංගීම් - beautifully, O Thou! To (the sage) Shaarabhanga;
Translation
Hearing from Bharat about Thy father's demise on account of the pangs of separation from the son (Thee), Thou were tormented and performed Tarpana for him. Then Thou bestowed Thy sandals and the kingdom to Bharata and paid homage to sage Atri. Going into the dense vast forest Dandaka, Thou killed the ferocious bodied demon Viraadha, and Thou graciously gave salvation to sage Shaarabhangee.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
නත්වාऽගස්ත්යං සමස්තාශරනිකරසපත්රාකෘතිං තාපසේභ්යඃ
ප්රත්යශ්රෞෂීඃ ප්රියෛෂී තදනු ච මුනිනා වෛෂ්ණවේ දිව්යචාපේ ।
බ්රහ්මාස්ත්රේ චාපි දත්තේ පථි පිතෘසුහෘදං වීක්ෂ්ය භූයෝ ජටායුං
මෝදාත් ගෝදාතටාංතේ පරිරමසි පුරා පංචවට්යාං වධූට්යා ॥7॥
Meaning
නත්වා-අගස්ත්යං - (after) paying obeisance to sage Agastya; සමස්ත-ආශර-නිකර-සපත්රාකෘතිං - the whole demon multitude will be killed to the core; තාපසේභ්යඃ ප්රත්යශ්රෞෂීඃ - to the sages, promised; ප්රියෛෂී තදනු ච - (Thou) the well wisher, and after that; මුනිනා වෛෂ්ණවේ දිව්ය-චාපේ - by the sage the divine Vaishnava bow; බ්රහ්මාස්ත්රේ ච-අපි - and also the Brahmaastra; දත්තේ පථි - was given, on the way; පිතෘ-සුහෘදං වීක්ෂ්ය - seeing Thy father's friend; භූයඃ ජටායුං මෝදාත් - again Jataayu happily; ගෝදා-තටාංතේ - on the banks of Godaavari river; පරිරමසි පුරා - Thou lived then; පංචවට්යාං වධූට්යා - in Panchvati with Thy consort;
Translation
After paying obeisance to sage Agastya, Thou the well wisher of the sages, promised to destroy the multitude of demons to the core. Then the sage gave Thee the divine Vaishnava bow and also the Brahmaastra. Thou also met Thy father's friend Jataayu and lived happily with Thy consort Seetaa in Panchawati on the banks of the river Godaavaree.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
ප්රාප්තායාඃ ශූර්පණඛ්යා මදනචලධෘතේරර්ථනෛර්නිස්සහාත්මා
තාං සෞමිත්රෞ විසෘජ්ය ප්රබලතමරුෂා තේන නිර්ලූනනාසාම් ।
දෘෂ්ට්වෛනාං රුෂ්ටචිත්තං ඛරමභිපතිතං දූෂණං ච ත්රිමූර්ධං
ව්යාහිංසීරාශරානප්යයුතසමධිකාංස්තත්ක්ෂණාදක්ෂතෝෂ්මා ॥8॥
Meaning
ප්රාප්තායාඃ ශූර්පණඛ්යා - approached by Shoorpanakhaa; මදන-චල-ධෘතේඃ- - (who was) overcome by passion; අර්ථනෛඃ-නිස්සහාත්මා - by (her) entreaties being annoyed; තාං සෞමිත්රෞ විසෘජ්ය - sending her away to Lakshmana; ප්රබලතම-රුෂා තේන - by whom in great rage; නිර්ලූන-නාසාම් - (her) nose was cut off; දෘෂ්ට්වා-ඓනාං රුෂ්ට-චිත්තං - seeing her (thus) in great anger; ඛරම්-අභිපතිතං - Khar attacked (Thee); දූෂණං ච ත්රිමූර්ධං - Dooshana and Trishiraa; ව්යාහිංසීඃ-ආශරාන්-අපි- - (Thou) destroyed (them) and other Raakshasas also; අයුතසම-අධිකාන්- - who were more than ten thousand; තත්-ක්ෂණාත්- - then and there; අක්ෂත-ඌෂ්මා - Thou! Whose powers know no decline;
Translation
Shoorpanakhaa approached Thee overcome with passion. Annoyed by her love lorn advances, Thou sent her away to Lakshmana who in great rage cut off her nose. Khar Dooshana and Trishira seeing her state came to attack Thee in great anger. O Thou! Whose powers know no decline, Thou killed them and other more than ten thousand Raakshasas all at once then and there.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
සෝදර්යාප්රෝක්තවාර්තාවිවශදශමුඛාදිෂ්ටමාරීචමායා-
සාරංග සාරසාක්ෂ්යා ස්පෘහිතමනුගතඃ ප්රාවධීර්බාණඝාතම් ।
තන්මායාක්රංදනිර්යාපිතභවදනුජාං රාවණස්තාමහාර්ෂී-
ත්තේනාර්තෝऽපි ත්වමංතඃ කිමපි මුදමධාස්තද්වධෝපායලාභාත් ॥9॥
Meaning
සෝදර්යා-ප්රෝක්ත-වාර්තා- - by (his) sister (he was) told the account; විවශ-දශමුඛ- - infatuated Raavana; ආදිෂ්ට-මාරීච- - ordered Maareech; මායා-සාරංග - (to become) the illusive dear; සාරසාක්ෂ්යා - by the lotus-eyed (Seetaa); ස්පෘහිතම්-අනුගතඃ - (it was) desired, (Thou) went after; ප්රාවධීඃ-බාණ-ඝාතම් - (and) killed with an arrow; තත්-මායා-ක්රංද- - by him an illusive cry; නිර්යාපිත-භවත්-අනුජාං - sent out by her (Seetaa) Thy younger brother; රාවණඃ-තාම්-අහාර්ෂීත්- - Raaavana abducted her; තේන-ආර්තඃ-අපි - because of that even though grieved; ත්වම්-අංතඃ - Thou inwardly; කිම්-අපි-මුදම්-අධාඃ- - were somewhat pleased; තත්-වධ-උපාය-ලාභාත් - for getting a reason for killing him;
Translation
Raavana's sister Shurpanakhaa gave an account of Seetaa by which he was infatuated and ordered Maareech to become the illusive deer. The lotus eyed Seetaa, made a desire for the deer and Thou went after it and killed it with an arrow. As Maareech died, he gave an illusive cry imitating Raama. Hearing the cry , Seetaa sent away Thy younger brother Lakshmana after him. Finding her alone Raavana abducted Seetaa. Though Thou were grieved at this, Thou also felt some joy as this gave a good reason to kill Raavana.
ශ්ලෝකඃ
භූයස්තන්වීං විචින්වන්නහෘත දශමුඛස්ත්වද්වධූං මද්වධේනේ-
ත්යුක්ත්වා යාතේ ජටායෞ දිවමථ සුහෘදඃ ප්රාතනෝඃ ප්රේතකාර්යම් ।
ගෘහ්ණානං තං කබංධං ජඝනිථ ශබරීං ප්රේක්ෂ්ය පංපාතටේ ත්වං
සංප්රාප්තෝ වාතසූනුං භෘශමුදිතමනාඃ පාහි වාතාලයේශ ॥10॥
Meaning
භූයඃ-තන්වීං විචින්වන්- - thereafter, searching for the beautiful one; අහෘතඃ දශමුඛඃ- - Raavana abducted; ත්වත්-වධූං මත්-වධේන- - Thy consort by killing me; ඉති-උක්ත්වා යාතේ ජටායෞ - saying thus (when) Jataayu went to; දිවම්-අථ සුහෘදඃ - heaven, then of his friend (Jataayu); ප්රාතනෝඃ ප්රේතකාර්යම් - (Thou) performed funeral rites; ගෘහ්ණානං තං කබංධං - who had caught hold of Thee that Kabandha; ජඝනිථ ශබරීං ප්රේක්ෂ්ය - (Thou) killed, bestowed salvation to Shabari; පංපාතටේ ත්වං සංප්රාප්තඃ වාතසූනුං - on the banks of Pampaa getting to meet Hanumaan; භෘශමුදිතමනාඃ - Thou were greatly delighted; පාහි වාතාලයේශ - protect O Lord of Guruvaayur!;
Translation
While searching for Seetaa, the dying Jataayu informed Thee that Raavana had abducted Seetaa and also had inflicted fatal wounds on him, when offered resistance.Thou performed the funeral rites of this friend Jataayu. On the way the monster Kabandha obstructed Thee and was killed. Thou then gave salvation to the ascetic woman Shabari and also got to meet Hanumaana on the banks of the river Pampaa, to Thy great delight. O Lord of Guruvaayur! protect me.
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