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Padma Purana — Patala Khanda — Chapter 5

PdP 5 5.1

शेष उवाच। अथाभिषिक्तं रामं तु तुष्टुवुः प्रणताः सुराः । रावणाभिधदैत्येंद्र वधहर्षितमानसाः

śeṣa uvāca| athābhiṣiktaṃ rāmaṃ tu tuṣṭuvuḥ praṇatāḥ surāḥ | rāvaṇābhidhadaityeṃdra vadhaharṣitamānasāḥ

Śeṣa said: Then the gods, bowing down, praised the consecrated Rāma, their minds delighted at the slaying of the demon-lord named Rāvaṇa.

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PdP 5 5.2

देवा ऊचुः। जय दाशरथे सुरार्तिहञ्जयजय दानववंशदाहक । जय देववरांगनागणग्रहणव्यग्रकरारिदारक

devā ūcuḥ| jaya dāśarathe surārtihañjayajaya dānavavaṃśadāhaka | jaya devavarāṃganāgaṇagrahaṇavyagrakarāridāraka

The gods said: Victory, son of Daśaratha, destroyer of the gods' distress! Victory, victory, burner of the lineage of the Dānavas! Victory, cleaver of the foe whose hands were busy seizing the throngs of the gods' choicest women!

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PdP 5 5.3

तवयद्दनुजेंद्र नाशनं कवयो वर्णयितुं समुत्सुकाः । प्रलये जगतांततीः पुनर्ग्रससे त्वं भुवनेशलीलया

tavayaddanujeṃdra nāśanaṃ kavayo varṇayituṃ samutsukāḥ | pralaye jagatāṃtatīḥ punargrasase tvaṃ bhuvaneśalīlayā

Poets are eager to tell of your destruction of the lord of the demons; at the dissolution you again swallow up the expanses of the worlds, O lord of the worlds, in sport.

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PdP 5 5.4

जय जन्मजरादिदुःखकैः परिमुक्तप्रबलोद्धरोद्धर । जय धर्मकरान्वयांबुधौ कृतजन्मन्नजरामराच्युत

jaya janmajarādiduḥkhakaiḥ parimuktaprabaloddharoddhara | jaya dharmakarānvayāṃbudhau kṛtajanmannajarāmarācyuta

Victory to you, mighty one, freed from the sufferings of birth, old age and the rest — lift (us) up, lift (us) up! Victory, O you who have taken birth in the ocean of the lineage of the doers of dharma, O unaging, undying, imperishable one!

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PdP 5 5.5

तव देववरस्य नामभिर्बहुपापा अपि ते पवित्रिताः । किमु साधुद्विजवर्यपूर्वकाः सुतनुं मानुषतामुपागताः

tava devavarasya nāmabhirbahupāpā api te pavitritāḥ | kimu sādhudvijavaryapūrvakāḥ sutanuṃ mānuṣatāmupāgatāḥ

By the names of you, the best of the gods, even those of many sins are made pure — how much more the good men, the foremost of the twice-born and their like, who have come to the human condition with a fair body.

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PdP 5 5.6

हरविरिंचिनुतं तव पादयोर्युगलमीप्सितकामसमृद्धिदम् । हृदि पवित्रयवादिकचिह्नितैः सुरचितं मनसा स्पृहयामहे

haraviriṃcinutaṃ tava pādayoryugalamīpsitakāmasamṛddhidam | hṛdi pavitrayavādikacihnitaiḥ suracitaṃ manasā spṛhayāmahe

The pair of your feet, praised by Hara and Brahmā, granting the full attainment of desires wished for, beautifully marked with the purifying barley-sign and the other marks — for these we long in our heart, with the mind.

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PdP 5 5.7

यदि भवान्न दधात्यभयं भुवो मदनमूर्ति तिरस्करकांतिभृत् । सुरगणा हि कथं सुखिनः पुनर्ननुभवंति घृणामय पावन

yadi bhavānna dadhātyabhayaṃ bhuvo madanamūrti tiraskarakāṃtibhṛt | suragaṇā hi kathaṃ sukhinaḥ punarnanubhavaṃti ghṛṇāmaya pāvana

If you, who bear a loveliness that eclipses the form of Kāma, do not grant freedom from fear to the earth, how then can the hosts of gods ever again experience happiness, O compassionate, purifying one?

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PdP 5 5.8

यदा यदास्मान्दनुजाहि दुःखदास्तदा तदा त्वं भुवि जन्मभाग्भवेः । अजोऽव्ययोऽपीशवरोऽपि सन्विभो स्वभावमास्थाय निजं निजार्चितः

yadā yadāsmāndanujāhi duḥkhadāstadā tadā tvaṃ bhuvi janmabhāgbhaveḥ | ajo'vyayo'pīśavaro'pi sanvibho svabhāvamāsthāya nijaṃ nijārcitaḥ

Whenever the demons are bringers of suffering to us, then and then you become a partaker of birth on earth — though unborn, though undecaying, though a sovereign lord, O all-pervading one, taking up your own nature, worshipped by your own people.

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PdP 5 5.9

मृतसुधासदृशैरघनाशनैः सुचरितैरवकीर्य महीतलम् । अमनुजैर्गुणशंसिभिरीडितः प्रविश चाशु पुनर्हि स्वकं पदम्

mṛtasudhāsadṛśairaghanāśanaiḥ sucaritairavakīrya mahītalam | amanujairguṇaśaṃsibhirīḍitaḥ praviśa cāśu punarhi svakaṃ padam

Having strewn the surface of the earth with good deeds that destroy sin and are like nectar (that revives) the dead, praised by the non-human ones who proclaim your virtues, enter now quickly again your own abode.

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PdP 5 5.10

अनादिराद्योजररूपधारी हारी किरीटी मकरध्वजाभः । जयं करोतु प्रसभं हतारिः स्मरारि संसेवितपादपद्मः

anādirādyojararūpadhārī hārī kirīṭī makaradhvajābhaḥ | jayaṃ karotu prasabhaṃ hatāriḥ smarāri saṃsevitapādapadmaḥ

He who is without beginning, the first, who bears an unaging form, wearing a necklace and a crown, radiant as the fish-bannered (Kāma), the slayer of foes, whose lotus feet are attended by the enemy of Smara (Śiva) — may he swiftly bring about victory.

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PdP 5 5.11

इत्युक्त्वा ते सुराः सर्वे ब्रह्मेंद्रप्रमुखा मुहुः । प्रणेमुररिनाशेन प्रीणिता रघुनायकम्

ityuktvā te surāḥ sarve brahmeṃdrapramukhā muhuḥ | praṇemurarināśena prīṇitā raghunāyakam

Having said this, all those gods, headed by Brahmā and Indra, gladdened by the destruction of the enemy, bowed again and again to the lord of the Raghus.

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PdP 5 5.12

इति स्तुत्यातिसंहृष्टो रघुनाथो महायशाः । प्रोवाच तान्सुरान्वीक्ष्य प्रणतान्नतकंधरान्

iti stutyātisaṃhṛṣṭo raghunātho mahāyaśāḥ | provāca tānsurānvīkṣya praṇatānnatakaṃdharān

Greatly delighted by this praise, the lord of the Raghus of great fame looked at those gods, bowed low with bent necks, and spoke to them.

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PdP 5 5.13

श्रीराम उवाच। सुरा वृणुत मे यूयं वरं किंचित्सुदुर्ल्लभम् । यं कोऽपि देवो दनुजो न यक्षः प्राप सादरः

śrīrāma uvāca| surā vṛṇuta me yūyaṃ varaṃ kiṃcitsudurllabham | yaṃ ko'pi devo danujo na yakṣaḥ prāpa sādaraḥ

Śrī Rāma said: Gods, choose from me some boon very hard to obtain, one which no god, no demon, no yakṣa has ever respectfully obtained.

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PdP 5 5.14

सुरा ऊचुः। स्वामिन्भगवतः सर्वं प्राप्तमस्माभिरुत्तमम् । यदयं निहतः शत्रुरस्माकं तु दशाननः

surā ūcuḥ| svāminbhagavataḥ sarvaṃ prāptamasmābhiruttamam | yadayaṃ nihataḥ śatrurasmākaṃ tu daśānanaḥ

The gods said: Lord, we have obtained everything, the highest, from you, the Blessed One, in that this enemy of ours, the ten-faced one, has been slain.

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PdP 5 5.15

यदायदाऽसुरोऽस्माकं बाधां परिदधाति भोः । तदा तदेति कर्तव्यमेतावद्वैरिनाशनम्

yadāyadā'suro'smākaṃ bādhāṃ paridadhāti bhoḥ | tadā tadeti kartavyametāvadvairināśanam

Whenever a demon inflicts affliction upon us, sir, then and then this alone is to be done — just this much: the destruction of the foe.

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PdP 5 5.16

तथेत्युक्त्वा पुनर्वीरः प्रोवाच रघुनंदनः । श्रीराम उवाच। सुराः शृणुत मद्वाक्यमादरेण समन्विताः

tathetyuktvā punarvīraḥ provāca raghunaṃdanaḥ | śrīrāma uvāca| surāḥ śṛṇuta madvākyamādareṇa samanvitāḥ

Saying "So be it," the hero, the delight of the Raghus, spoke again. Śrī Rāma said: Gods, listen with attention to my words.

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PdP 5 5.17

भवत्कृतं मदीयैर्वैगुणैर्ग्रथितमद्भुतम् । स्तोत्रं पठिष्यति मुहुः प्रातर्निशि सकृन्नरः

bhavatkṛtaṃ madīyairvaiguṇairgrathitamadbhutam | stotraṃ paṭhiṣyati muhuḥ prātarniśi sakṛnnaraḥ

Whatever man will recite repeatedly, at dawn or at night, even once, this wondrous hymn made by you and strung together out of my qualities —

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PdP 5 5.18

तस्य वैरि पराभूतिर्न भविष्यति दारुणा । न च दारिद्र्यसंयोगो न च व्याधिपराभवौ

tasya vairi parābhūtirna bhaviṣyati dāruṇā | na ca dāridryasaṃyogo na ca vyādhiparābhavau

for him there will be no terrible defeat at the hands of enemies, no contact with poverty, and no disease or overthrow.

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PdP 5 5.19

मदीयचरणद्वंद्वे भक्तिस्तेषां तु भूयसी । भविष्यति मुदायुक्ते स्वांते पुंसां तु पाठतः

madīyacaraṇadvaṃdve bhaktisteṣāṃ tu bhūyasī | bhaviṣyati mudāyukte svāṃte puṃsāṃ tu pāṭhataḥ

And from the recitation there will arise in men, in their joy-filled hearts, abundant devotion to the pair of my feet.

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PdP 5 5.20

इत्युक्त्वा सोऽभवत्तूष्णीं नरदेवशिरोमणिः । सुराः सर्वे प्रहृष्टास्ते ययुर्लोकं स्वकं स्वकम्

ityuktvā so'bhavattūṣṇīṃ naradevaśiromaṇiḥ | surāḥ sarve prahṛṣṭāste yayurlokaṃ svakaṃ svakam

Having said this, that crown-jewel among the gods of men fell silent; and all the gods, greatly delighted, went each to his own world.

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PdP 5 5.21

रघुनाथोऽपि भ्रातॄंस्तान्पालयंस्तातवद्बुधान् । प्रजाः पुत्रानिव स्वीयाल्लाँलयँल्लोकनायकः

raghunātho'pi bhrātṝṃstānpālayaṃstātavadbudhān | prajāḥ putrāniva svīyāllā~laya~llokanāyakaḥ

And the lord of the Raghus, the leader of the world, protecting those wise brothers of his like a father, fondling his own subjects as if they were sons —

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PdP 5 5.22

यस्मिञ्छासति लोकानां नाकालमरणं नृणाम् । न रोगादि पराभूतिर्गृहेषु च महीयसी

yasmiñchāsati lokānāṃ nākālamaraṇaṃ nṛṇām | na rogādi parābhūtirgṛheṣu ca mahīyasī

while he was ruling the worlds, there was no untimely death of men, and no great overthrow by disease and the like in their houses.

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PdP 5 5.23

नेतिः कदापि द्दश्येत वैरिजं भयमेव च । वृक्षाः सदैव फलिनो मही भूयिष्ठधान्यका

netiḥ kadāpi ddaśyeta vairijaṃ bhayameva ca | vṛkṣāḥ sadaiva phalino mahī bhūyiṣṭhadhānyakā

No blight was ever to be seen, nor any fear arising from enemies; the trees were always laden with fruit, and the earth abounded in grain.

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PdP 5 5.24

पुत्रपौत्रपरीवार सनाथी कृतजीवनाः । कांता संयोगजसुखैर्निरस्तविरहक्लमाः

putrapautraparīvāra sanāthī kṛtajīvanāḥ | kāṃtā saṃyogajasukhairnirastavirahaklamāḥ

Their lives were made secure by a circle of sons and grandsons; the weariness of separation was banished by the joys born of union with their wives.

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PdP 5 5.25

नित्यं श्रीरघुनाथस्य पादपद्मकथोत्सुकाः । कदापि परनिंदासु वाचस्तेषां भवंति न

nityaṃ śrīraghunāthasya pādapadmakathotsukāḥ | kadāpi paraniṃdāsu vācasteṣāṃ bhavaṃti na

They were always eager for talk of the lotus feet of holy Raghunātha; never did their words turn to the censuring of others.

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PdP 5 5.26

कारवोऽपि कदा पापं नाचरंति मनस्यहो । रघुनाथकराघातदुःखशंकाभिशंसिनः

kāravo'pi kadā pāpaṃ nācaraṃti manasyaho | raghunāthakarāghātaduḥkhaśaṃkābhiśaṃsinaḥ

Ah, even the artisans never committed a sin, even in thought, proclaiming (as they did) their dread of the pain of Raghunātha's punishing hand.

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PdP 5 5.27

सीतापतिमुखालोक निश्चलीभूतलोचनाः । लोका बभूवुः सततं कारुण्यपरिपूरिताः

sītāpatimukhāloka niścalībhūtalocanāḥ | lokā babhūvuḥ satataṃ kāruṇyaparipūritāḥ

With eyes grown motionless at the sight of Sītā's husband's face, the people came to be filled through and through with compassion.

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PdP 5 5.28

राज्यं प्राप्तमसापत्नं समृद्धबलवाहनम् । ऋषिभिर्हृष्टपुष्टैश्च रम्यं हाटकभूषणैः

rājyaṃ prāptamasāpatnaṃ samṛddhabalavāhanam | ṛṣibhirhṛṣṭapuṣṭaiśca ramyaṃ hāṭakabhūṣaṇaiḥ

He gained a kingdom without rival, rich in armies and mounts, delightful with sages well-nourished and thriving, adorned with gold,

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PdP 5 5.29

संपुष्टमिष्टापूर्तानां धर्माणां नित्यकर्तृभिः । सदा संपन्नसस्यं च सुवसुक्षेत्रसंयुतम्

saṃpuṣṭamiṣṭāpūrtānāṃ dharmāṇāṃ nityakartṛbhiḥ | sadā saṃpannasasyaṃ ca suvasukṣetrasaṃyutam

well sustained by those who constantly performed the sacrificial and charitable duties, its crops always abundant, provided with fields of good soil,

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PdP 5 5.30

सुदेशं सुप्रजं स्वस्थं सुतृणं बहुगोधनम् । देवतायतनानां च राजिभिः परिराजितम्

sudeśaṃ suprajaṃ svasthaṃ sutṛṇaṃ bahugodhanam | devatāyatanānāṃ ca rājibhiḥ parirājitam

with good regions, good offspring, healthy, with good grass, rich in cattle, and resplendent all around with rows of temples of the gods,

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PdP 5 5.31

सुपूर्णा यत्र वै ग्रामाः सुवित्तर्द्धिविराजिताः । सुपुष्पकृत्रिमोद्यानाः सुस्वादुफलपादपाः

supūrṇā yatra vai grāmāḥ suvittarddhivirājitāḥ | supuṣpakṛtrimodyānāḥ susvāduphalapādapāḥ

where the villages were well filled and shone with abundant wealth and prosperity, with man-made gardens full of fine flowers and with trees of most delicious fruit,

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PdP 5 5.32

सपद्मिनीककासारा यत्र राजंति भूमयः । सदंभा निम्नगा यत्र न यत्र जनता क्वचित्

sapadminīkakāsārā yatra rājaṃti bhūmayaḥ | sadaṃbhā nimnagā yatra na yatra janatā kvacit

where the lands shone with lotus-bearing pools, where only the rivers were 'crooked with pretence', and the people nowhere so,

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PdP 5 5.33

कुलान्येव कुलीनानां वर्णानां नाधनानि च । विभ्रमो यत्र नारीषु न विद्वत्सु च कर्हिचित्

kulānyeva kulīnānāṃ varṇānāṃ nādhanāni ca | vibhramo yatra nārīṣu na vidvatsu ca karhicit

There were only the families of the well-born among the classes, and no poor ones; there coquetry was found in the women, but never in the learned.

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PdP 5 5.34

नद्यः कुटिलगामिन्यो न यत्र विषये प्रजाः । तमोयुक्ताः क्षपा यत्र बहुलेषु न मानवाः

nadyaḥ kuṭilagāminyo na yatra viṣaye prajāḥ | tamoyuktāḥ kṣapā yatra bahuleṣu na mānavāḥ

In that realm it was the rivers that went crookedly, not the subjects; there the nights were joined with darkness, not the men in their multitudes.

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PdP 5 5.35

रजोयुजः स्त्रियो यत्र नाधर्मबहुला नराः । धनैरनंधो यत्रास्ति जनो नैव च भोजने

rajoyujaḥ striyo yatra nādharmabahulā narāḥ | dhanairanaṃdho yatrāsti jano naiva ca bhojane

There the women were possessed of rajas, (but) the men were not full of unrighteousness; there no one was blinded by wealth, nor even in eating.

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PdP 5 5.36

अनयः स्यंदनो यत्र न च वैराजपूरुषः । दंडः परशुकुद्दालवालव्यजनराजिषु

anayaḥ syaṃdano yatra na ca vairājapūruṣaḥ | daṃḍaḥ paraśukuddālavālavyajanarājiṣu

There the going-astray belonged to the chariot, not to the king's men; the rod (was found) in rows of axes, hoes, hair-fans,

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PdP 5 5.37

आतपत्रेषु नान्यत्र क्वचित्क्रोधोपरोधजः । अन्यत्राक्षिकवृंदेभ्यः क्वचिन्न परिदेवनम्

ātapatreṣu nānyatra kvacitkrodhoparodhajaḥ | anyatrākṣikavṛṃdebhyaḥ kvacinna paridevanam

and in parasols — nowhere else, and never born of anger or obstruction; nowhere was there lamentation, except from the throngs of gamblers.

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PdP 5 5.38

आक्षिका एव दृश्यंते यत्र पाशकपाणयः । जाड्यवार्ता जलेष्वेव स्त्रीमध्या एव दुर्बलाः

ākṣikā eva dṛśyaṃte yatra pāśakapāṇayaḥ | jāḍyavārtā jaleṣveva strīmadhyā eva durbalāḥ

There it is only gamblers who are seen with dice in hand; talk of coldness is only of the waters, and the weak are only those in the midst of women.

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PdP 5 5.39

कठोरहृदया यत्र सीमंतिन्यो न मानवाः । औषधेष्वेव यत्रास्ति कुष्ठयोगो न मानवे

kaṭhorahṛdayā yatra sīmaṃtinyo na mānavāḥ | auṣadheṣveva yatrāsti kuṣṭhayogo na mānave

There it is the women who are hard-hearted, not the men; there the presence of kuṣṭha is in medicines only, not in a man.

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PdP 5 5.40

वेधो यत्र सुरत्नेषु शूलं मूर्तिकरेषु वै । कंपः सात्विकभावोत्थो न भयात्क्वापि कस्यचित्

vedho yatra suratneṣu śūlaṃ mūrtikareṣu vai | kaṃpaḥ sātvikabhāvottho na bhayātkvāpi kasyacit

There piercing is (only) in fine gems, and the spike (only) in the hands of image-makers; trembling arises from a sattvic emotion, never anywhere from anyone's fear.

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PdP 5 5.41

संज्वरः कामजो यत्र दारिद्र्यकलुषस्य च । दुर्ल्लभत्वं सदैवस्य सुकृतेन च वस्तुनः

saṃjvaraḥ kāmajo yatra dāridryakaluṣasya ca | durllabhatvaṃ sadaivasya sukṛtena ca vastunaḥ

There burning fever is born of love; and hard-to-getness belongs to the taint of poverty, and always to a thing (won) by merit.

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PdP 5 5.42

इभा एव प्रमत्ता वै युद्धे वीच्यो जलाशये । दानहानिर्गजेष्वेव तीक्ष्णा एव हि कंटकाः

ibhā eva pramattā vai yuddhe vīcyo jalāśaye | dānahānirgajeṣveva tīkṣṇā eva hi kaṃṭakāḥ

It is the elephants alone that are intoxicated, the waves alone that are turbulent in the lake; loss of the flowing juice is only in elephants, and only thorns are sharp.

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PdP 5 5.43

बाणेषु गुणविश्लेषो बंधोक्तिः पुस्तके दृढा । स्नेहत्यागः खलेष्वेव न च वै स्वजने जने

bāṇeṣu guṇaviśleṣo baṃdhoktiḥ pustake dṛḍhā | snehatyāgaḥ khaleṣveva na ca vai svajane jane

In arrows there is loss of the string (as in men, loss of virtue); in a book the talk of binding is firm; the giving up of affection is (fitting) toward scoundrels only, and not toward one's own people.

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PdP 5 5.44

तं देशं पालयामास लालयँल्लालिताः प्रजाः । धर्मं संस्थापयन्देशे दुष्टे दंडधरोपमः

taṃ deśaṃ pālayāmāsa lālaya~llālitāḥ prajāḥ | dharmaṃ saṃsthāpayandeśe duṣṭe daṃḍadharopamaḥ

He protected that land, fondling the well-cherished subjects, establishing dharma in the land, like the wielder of the rod toward the wicked.

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PdP 5 5.45

एवं पालयतो देशं धर्मेण धरणीतलम् । सहस्रं च व्यतीयुर्वै वर्षाण्येकादश प्रभोः

evaṃ pālayato deśaṃ dharmeṇa dharaṇītalam | sahasraṃ ca vyatīyurvai varṣāṇyekādaśa prabhoḥ

Thus, while the lord was protecting the land, the surface of the earth, with dharma, eleven thousand years passed.

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PdP 5 5.46

तत्र नीचजनाच्छ्रुत्वा सीताया अपमानताम् । स्वां च निंदां रजकतस्तां तत्याज रघूद्वहः

tatra nīcajanācchrutvā sītāyā apamānatām | svāṃ ca niṃdāṃ rajakatastāṃ tatyāja raghūdvahaḥ

There, hearing from a low person of the dishonour of Sītā, and hearing his own censure from a washerman, the descendant of Raghu abandoned her.

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PdP 5 5.47

पृथ्वीं पालयमानस्य धर्मेण नृपतेस्तदा । सीतां विरहितामेकां निदेशेन सुरक्षिताम्

pṛthvīṃ pālayamānasya dharmeṇa nṛpatestadā | sītāṃ virahitāmekāṃ nideśena surakṣitām

Then, while the king was protecting the earth with dharma, Sītā, forsaken and alone, was well guarded by (his) order—

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PdP 5 5.48

कदाचित्संसदो मध्ये ह्यासीनस्य महामतेः । आजगाम मुनिश्रेष्ठः कुंभोत्पत्तिर्मुनिर्महान्

kadācitsaṃsado madhye hyāsīnasya mahāmateḥ | ājagāma muniśreṣṭhaḥ kuṃbhotpattirmunirmahān

Once, while the great-minded one was seated in the midst of the assembly, the best of sages, the great sage born from a pot, came.

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PdP 5 5.49

गृहीत्वार्घ्यं समुत्तस्थौ वसिष्ठेन समन्वितः । जनताभिर्महाराजो वार्धिशोषकमागतम्

gṛhītvārghyaṃ samuttasthau vasiṣṭhena samanvitaḥ | janatābhirmahārājo vārdhiśoṣakamāgatam

Taking the water-offering, the great king rose up together with Vasiṣṭha and with the throngs of people, (to greet) the drier-up of the ocean, who had come.

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PdP 5 5.50

स्वागतेन सुसंभाव्य पप्रच्छ तमनामयम् । सुखोपविष्टं विश्रांतं बभाषे रघुनंदनः

svāgatena susaṃbhāvya papraccha tamanāmayam | sukhopaviṣṭaṃ viśrāṃtaṃ babhāṣe raghunaṃdanaḥ

Honouring him well with a welcome, he asked after his well-being; and when he was comfortably seated and rested, the delight of Raghu spoke.

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