Kari bilap sab rovahi rani

Chaupai 4, Under Doha 153 · Ayodhya Kand

Chaupai Text

करि बिलाप सब रोवहिं रानी। महा बिपति किमि जाइ बखानी॥ सुनि बिलाप दुखहू दुखु लागा। धीरजहू कर धीरजु भागा॥ ४ ॥

Transliteration (IAST)

kari bilāpa saba rovahiṃ rānī। mahā bipati kimi jāi bakhānī॥ suni bilāpa dukhahū dukhu lāgā। dhīrajahū kara dhīraju bhāgā॥ 4 ॥

Meaning

All the queens wept, lamenting aloud. How can that great calamity be described? Hearing that lamentation, even sorrow felt sorrow, and even composure itself fled away.

Context

This is Chaupai 4, Under Doha 153 from Ayodhya Kand, in the episode “Dashrath's Last Words and His Death”. The episode describes Dasharatha's grief-stricken final words to Sumantra and his death from separation from Rama.

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