Agem dikhi jarat ris bhari

Chaupai 1, Under Doha 31 · Ayodhya Kand

Chaupai Text

आगें दीखि जरत रिस भारी। मनहुँ रोष तरवारि उघारी॥ मूठि कुबुद्धि धार निठुराई। धरी कूबरीं सान बनाई॥ १ ॥

Transliteration (IAST)

āgeṃ dīkhi jarata risa bhārī। manahuṃ roṣa taravāri ughārī॥ mūṭhi kubuddhi dhāra niṭhurāī। dharī kūbarīṃ sāna banāī॥ 1 ॥

Meaning

Kaikeyi, burning with fierce anger, appeared before him like a drawn sword of wrath. Misguided intellect was its hilt, harshness its blade, and it had been sharpened on the whetstone of Kubari (Manthara).

Context

This is Chaupai 1, Under Doha 31 from Ayodhya Kand, in the episode “Kaikeyi's Demands, Sumantra Summons Ram”. The episode describes Kaikeyi's two cruel demands plunging Dasharatha into grief, and Sumantra summoning Rama.

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