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Ramayana, Book VI, Canto 26: The Vánar Chiefsयुद्धकाण्डम्

Ralph T. H. Griffith’s English verse (1870–74), beside the Sanskrit of sarga 6.26.

26Sanskrit sarga 6.26 · Sanskrit source · English source

Sanskrit

तद्वचः सत्यमक्लीबं सारणेनाभिभाषितम्।
निशम्य रावणो राजा प्रत्यभाषत सारणम्॥ १॥
यदि मामभियुञ्जीरन् देवगन्धर्वदानवाः।
नैव सीतामहं दद्यां सर्वलोकभयादपि॥ २॥
त्वं तु सौम्य परित्रस्तो हरिभिः पीडितो भृशम्।
प्रतिप्रदानमद्यैव सीतायाः साधु मन्यसे॥ ३॥
को हि नाम सपत्नो मां समरे जेतुमर्हति।
इत्युक्त्वा परुषं वाक्यं रावणो राक्षसाधिपः॥ ४॥
आरुरोह ततः श्रीमान् प्रासादं हिमपाण्डुरम्।
बहुतालसमुत्सेधं रावणोऽथ दिदृक्षया॥ ५॥
ताभ्यां चराभ्यां सहितो रावणः क्रोधमूर्च्छितः।
पश्यमानः समुद्रं तं पर्वतांश्च वनानि च॥ ६॥
ददर्श पृथिवीदेशं सुसम्पूर्णं प्लवंगमैः।
तदपारमसह्यं च वानराणां महाबलम्॥ ७॥
आलोक्य रावणो राजा परिपप्रच्छ सारणम्।
एषां के वानरा मुख्याः के शूराः के महाबलाः॥ ८॥
के पूर्वमभिवर्तन्ते महोत्साहाः समन्ततः।
केषां शृणोति सुग्रीवः के वा यूथपयूथपाः॥ ९॥
सारणाचक्ष्व मे सर्वं किंप्रभावाः प्लवंगमाः।
सारणो राक्षसेन्द्रस्य वचनं परिपृच्छतः॥ १०॥
आबभाषेऽथ मुख्यज्ञो मुख्यांस्तत्र वनौकसः।
एष योऽभिमुखो लङ्कां नर्दंस्तिष्ठति वानरः॥ ११॥
यूथपानां सहस्राणां शतेन परिवारितः।
यस्य घोषेण महता सप्राकारा सतोरणा॥ १२॥
लङ्का प्रतिहता सर्वा सशैलवनकानना।
सर्वशाखामृगेन्द्रस्य सुग्रीवस्य महात्मनः॥ १३॥
बलाग्रे तिष्ठते वीरो नीलो नामैष यूथपः।
बाहू प्रगृह्य यः पद‍्भ्यां महीं गच्छति वीर्यवान्॥ १४॥
लङ्कामभिमुखः कोपादभीक्ष्णं च विजृम्भते।
गिरिशृङ्गप्रतीकाशः पद्मकिंजल्कसंनिभः॥ १५॥
स्फोटयत्यतिसंरब्धो लाङ्गूलं च पुनः पुनः।
यस्य लाङ्गूलशब्देन स्वनन्ति प्रदिशो दश॥ १६॥
एष वानरराजेन सुग्रीवेणाभिषेचितः।
युवराजोऽङ्गदो नाम त्वामाह्वयति संयुगे॥ १७॥
वालिनः सदृशः पुत्रः सुग्रीवस्य सदा प्रियः।
राघवार्थे पराक्रान्तः शक्रार्थे वरुणो यथा॥ १८॥
एतस्य सा मतिः सर्वा यद् दृष्टा जनकात्मजा।
हनूमता वेगवता राघवस्य हितैषिणा॥ १९॥
बहूनि वानरेन्द्राणामेष यूथानि वीर्यवान्।
परिगृह्याभियाति त्वां स्वेनानीकेन मर्दितुम्॥ २०॥
अनुवालिसुतस्यापि बलेन महता वृतः।
वीरस्तिष्ठति संग्रामे सेतुहेतुरयं नलः॥ २१॥
ये तु विष्टभ्य गात्राणि क्ष्वेडयन्ति नदन्ति च।
उत्थाय च विजृम्भन्ते क्रोधेन हरिपुङ्गवाः॥ २२॥
एते दुष्प्रसहा घोराश्चण्डाश्चण्डपराक्रमाः।
अष्टौ शतसहस्राणि दशकोटिशतानि च।
य एनमनुगच्छन्ति वीराश्चन्दनवासिनः॥ २३॥
एषैवाशंसते लङ्कां स्वेनानीकेन मर्दितुम्।
श्वेतो रजतसंकाशश्चपलो भीमविक्रमः॥ २४॥
बुद्धिमान् वानरः शूरस्त्रिषु लोकेषु विश्रुतः।
तूर्णं सुग्रीवमागम्य पुनर्गच्छति वानरः॥ २५॥
विभजन् वानरीं सेनामनीकानि प्रहर्षयन्।
यः पुरा गोमतीतीरे रम्यं पर्येति पर्वतम्॥ २६॥
नाम्ना संरोचनो नाम नानानगयुतो गिरिः।
तत्र राज्यं प्रशास्त्येष कुमुदो नाम यूथपः॥ २७॥
योऽसौ शतसहस्राणि सहर्षं परिकर्षति।
यस्य वाला बहुव्यामा दीर्घलाङ्गूलमाश्रिताः॥ २८॥
ताम्राः पीताः सिताः श्वेताः प्रकीर्णा घोरदर्शनाः।
अदीनो वानरश्चण्डः संग्राममभिकाङ्क्षति।
एषोऽप्याशंसते लङ्कां स्वेनानीकेन मर्दितुम्॥ २९॥
यस्त्वेष सिंहसंकाशः कपिलो दीर्घकेसरः।
निभृतः प्रेक्षते लङ्कां दिधक्षन्निव चक्षुषा॥ ३०॥
विन्ध्यं कृष्णगिरिं सह्यं पर्वतं च सुदर्शनम्।
राजन् सततमध्यास्ते स रम्भो नाम यूथपः।
शतं शतसहस्राणां त्रिंशच्च हरिपुङ्गवाः॥ ३१॥
यं यान्तं वानरा घोराश्चण्डाश्चण्डपराक्रमाः।
परिवार्यानुगच्छन्ति लङ्कां मर्दितुमोजसा॥ ३२॥
यस्तु कर्णौ विवृणुते जृम्भते च पुनः पुनः।
न तु संविजते मृत्योर्न च सेनां प्रधावति॥ ३३॥
प्रकम्पते च रोषेण तिर्यक् च पुनरीक्षते।
पश्य लाङ्गूलविक्षेपं क्ष्वेडत्येष महाबलः॥ ३४॥
महाजवो वीतभयो रम्यं साल्वेयपर्वतम्।
राजन् सततमध्यास्ते शरभो नाम यूथपः॥ ३५॥
एतस्य बलिनः सर्वे विहारा नाम यूथपाः।
राजन् शतसहस्राणि चत्वारिंशत्तथैव च॥ ३६॥
यस्तु मेघ इवाकाशं महानावृत्य तिष्ठति।
मध्ये वानरवीराणां सुराणामिव वासवः॥ ३७॥
भेरीणामिव संनादो यस्यैष श्रूयते महान्।
घोषः शाखामृगेन्द्राणां संग्राममभिकाङ्क्षताम्॥ ३८॥
एष पर्वतमध्यास्ते पारियात्रमनुत्तमम्।
युद्धे दुष्प्रसहो नित्यं पनसो नाम यूथपः॥ ३९॥
एनं शतसहस्राणां शतार्धं पर्युपासते।
यूथपा यूथपश्रेष्ठं येषां यूथानि भागशः॥ ४०॥
यस्तु भीमां प्रवल्गन्तीं चमूं तिष्ठति शोभयन्।
स्थितां तीरे समुद्रस्य द्वितीय इव सागरः॥ ४१॥
एष दर्दुरसंकाशो विनतो नाम यूथपः।
पिबंश्चरति यो वेणां नदीनामुत्तमां नदीम्॥ ४२॥
षष्टिः शतसहस्राणि बलमस्य प्लवंगमाः।
त्वामाह्वयति युद्धाय क्रोधनो नाम वानरः॥ ४३॥
विक्रान्ता बलवन्तश्च यथा यूथानि भागशः।
यस्तु गैरिकवर्णाभं वपुः पुष्यति वानरः॥ ४४॥
अवमत्य सदा सर्वान् वानरान् बलदर्पितः।
गवयो नाम तेजस्वी त्वां क्रोधादभिवर्तते॥ ४५॥
एनं शतसहस्राणि सप्ततिः पर्युपासते।
एषैवाशंसते लङ्कां स्वेनानीकेन मर्दितुम्॥ ४६॥
एते दुष्प्रसहा वीरा येषां संख्या न विद्यते।
यूथपा यूथपश्रेष्ठास्तेषां यूथानि भागशः॥ ४७॥

English Griffith

“Not if the Gods in heaven who dwell,
Gandharvas, and the fiends of hell
In banded opposition rise
Against me, will I yield my prize.
Still trembling from the ungentle touch
Of Vánar hands ye fear too much,
And bid me, heedless of the shame,
Give to her lord the Maithil dame.”

 Thus spoke the king in stern reproof;
Then mounted to his palace roof
Aloft o’er many a story raised,
And on the lands beneath him gazed.
There by his faithful spies he stood
And looked on sea and hill and wood.
There stretched before him far away
The Vánars’ numberless array:
Scarce could the meadows’ tender green
Beneath their trampling feet be seen.
He looked a while with furious eye,
Then questioned thus the nearer spy:
“Bend, Sáraṇ, bend thy gaze, and show
The leaders of the Vánar foe.
Tell me their heroes’ names, and teach
The valour, power and might of each.”

 Obedient Sáraṇ eyed the van,
The leaders marked, and thus began:
“That chief conspicuous at the head
Of warriors in the forest bred,
Who hither bends his ruthless eye
And shouts his fearful battle cry:
Whose voice with pealing thunder shakes
All Lanká, with the groves and lakes
And hills that tremble at the sound,
Is Níla, for his might renowned:
First of the Vánar lords controlled
By King Sugríva lofty-souled.
He who his mighty arm extends,
And his fierce eye on Lanká bends,
In stature like a stately tower,
In colour like a lotus flower,
Who with his wild earth-shaking cries
Thee, Rávaṇ, to the field defies,
Is Angad, by Sugríva’s care
Anointed his imperial heir:
In wondrous strength, in martial fire
Peer of King Báli’s self, his sire;
For Ráma’s sake in arms arrayed
Like Varuṇ called to Śakra’s aid.
Behind him, girt by warlike bands,
Nala the mighty Vánar stands,
The son of Viśvakarmá, he
Who built the bridge athwart the sea.
Look farther yet, O King, and mark
That chieftain clothed in Sandal bark.
’Tis Śweta, famed among his peers,
A sage whom all his race reveres.
See, in Sugríva’s ear he speaks,
Then, hasting back, his post reseeks,
And turns his practised eye to view
The squadrons he has formed anew.
Next Kumud stands who roamed of yore
On Gomatí’s939 delightful shore,
Feared where the waving woods invest
His seat on Mount Sanrochan’s crest.
Next him a chieftain strong and dread,
Comes Chaṇḍa at his legions’ head;
Exulting in his warrior might
He hastens, burning for the fight,
And boasts that his unaided powers
Shall cast to earth thy walls and towers.
Mark, mark that chief of lion gait,
Who views thee with a glance of hate
As though his very eyes would burn
The city walls to which they turn:
’Tis Rambha, Vánar king; he dwells
In Krishṇagiri’s tangled dells,
Where Vindhya’s pleasant slopes are spread
And fair Sudarśan lifts his head.
There, listening with erected ears,
Śarabha, mighty chief, appears.
His soul is burning for the strife,
Nor dreads the jeopardy of life.
He trembles as he moves, for ire,
And bends around his glance of fire.
Next, like a cloud that veils the skies,
A chieftain of terrific size,
Conspicuous mid the Vánars, comes
With battle shout like rolling drums,
’Tis Panas, trained in war and tried,
Who dwells on Páriyátra’s side.
He, far away, the chief who throws
A glory o’er the marshalled rows
That ranged behind their captain stand
Exulting on the ocean strand,
Is Vinata the fierce in fight,
Preëminent like Dardur’s height.
That chieftain bending down to drink
On lovely Veṇá’s verdant brink,
Is Krathan; now he lifts his eyes
And thee to mortal fray defies.
Next Gavaya comes, whose haughty mind
Scorns all the warriors of his kind.
He comes to trample—such his boast—
On Lanká with his single host.”

Griffith’s notes (1)
  1. The Goomtee.

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English: Ralph T. H. Griffith, The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse, 5 vols. (London: Trübner & Co.; Benares: E. J. Lazarus and Co., 1870–1874), public domain. Transcription: Project Gutenberg eBook #24869 (Distributed Proofreaders). Sanskrit: Sanskrit Wikisource. The ancient text is public domain; Wikisource page text is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.