30th chapter from balkanda of valmiki ramayana in gujarati

Had I been barren, I would have had only one sorrow in my mind. My sorrow is greater since I see that I will now be without a son. Kousalya’s sorrow is heartbreaking, as she ponders her fate – “ Had I not had a son, I would not have been this miserable.

Spend the night with your mother and me, so that we can see you.” An equally distraught Rama is still steadfast and speaks a brutal truth – “ Even if we obtain these objects with qualities today, who will give them to us tomorrow?” When Rama goes to Dashratha’s palace one last time before leaving for the forest, a desperate father tries one last attempt to hold his son back, first by exhorting him to “ Imprison me and become the king of Ayodhya today!” and then pleading him to stay, if only for one more night – “ O son! However, it is night now, when one should never leave. If I had to single out one takeaway from this first volume, it was the indescribably moving dialogue and emotions that the epic conveys. The copious footnotes follow you throughout, like a faithful companion. There is a sense of familiarity in that sense. I doubt much value would be added were I to attempt a summarization of the Ramayana itself, so I will use this review to point out some interesting things about the translation itself.įirst, the style of the translation is very similar to the one followed in the Mahabharata. The first volume covers the first two kandas – Baal and Ayodhya and ends with Sita accepting the gift of ornaments from Anasuya and the three – Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana entering Dandakaranya. Unlike the Mahabharata translation, that spanned five years, and with one volume coming out every six months or so, the Ramayana translation was released as a single three-volume set in 2017. In any case, this is another stellar effort that succeeds in bringing out the beauty and emotions of the epic, as much as the limitations of a faithful translation permit. Having gone through the marathon of translating the unabridged Mahabharata, the Ramayana would have seemed like a sprint to Bibek Debroy.

30th chapter from balkanda of valmiki ramayana in gujarati