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Pātāla-khaṇḍa · Chapter 62

Chapter 62

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शेष उवाच। मूर्च्छितं मारुतिं श्रुत्वा शत्रुघ्नः शोकमाययौ । किंकर्तव्यं मया संख्ये बालकोऽयं महाबलः १। स्वयं रथे हेममये तिष्ठन्वीरवरैः सह । योद्धुं प्रागाल्लवो यत्र विचित्ररणकोविदः २। लवं ददर्श शिशुतां प्राप्तं राममिव क्षितौ । धनुर्बाणकरं वीरान्क्षिपंतं रणमूर्धनि ३। विचारयामास तदा कोऽयं रामस्वरूपधृक् । नीलोत्पलदलश्यामं वपुर्बिभ्रन्मनोहरम् ४। एष वै देहतनुजा सुतो भवति नान्यथा । अस्मान्विजित्य समरे यास्यते मृगराडिव ५। अस्माकं नो जयो भाव्यः शक्त्या विरहितात्मनाम् । अशक्ताः किं करिष्यामः समरे रणकोविदाः ६। इत्येवं स विचार्याथ बालकं तु वचोऽब्रवीत् । रणे कुतुककर्तारं वीरकोटिनिपातकम् ७। कस्त्वं बाल रणेऽस्माकं वीरान्पातयसि क्षितौ । न जानीषे बलं राज्ञो रामस्य दनुजार्दिनः ८। का ते माता पिता कस्ते सुभाग्यो जयमाप्तवान् । नाम किं विश्रुतं लोके जानीयां ते महाबल ९। मुञ्च वाहः कथं बद्धः शिशुत्वात्तत्क्षमामि ते । आयाहि रामं वीक्षस्व दास्यते बहुलं तव १०। इत्युक्तो बालको वीरो वचः शत्रुघ्नमावदत् । किं ते नाम्नाथ पित्रा वा कुलेन वयसा तथा ११। युध्यस्व समरे वीर चेत्त्वं बलयुतो भवेः । कुशं वीरं नमस्कृत्य पादयोर्याहि नान्यथा १२। भ्राता रामस्य वीरो भूर्नावयोर्बलिनां वरः । वाहं विमोचय बलाच्छक्तिस्ते विद्यते यदि १३। इत्युक्त्वा शरसंधानं कृत्वा प्राहरदुद्भटः । हृदये मस्तके चैव भुजयो रणमंडले १४। तदा प्रकुपितो राजा धनुः सज्यमथाकरोत् । नादयन्मेघगंभीरं त्रासयन्निव बालकम् १५। बाणानपरिसंख्यातान्मुमोच बलिनां वरः । बालो बलेन चिच्छेद सर्वांस्तान्सायकव्रजान् १६। लवस्यानेकधा मुक्तैर्बाणैर्व्याप्तं महीतलम् । व्यतीपाते प्रदत्तस्य दानस्येवाक्षयं गताः १७। ते बाणा व्योमसकलं व्याप्नुवँल्लवसंधिताः । सूर्यमंडलमासाद्य प्रवर्तंते समंततः १८। मारुतो नाविशद्यत्र बाणपंजरगोचरे । मनुष्याणां तु का वार्ता क्षणजीवितशंसिनाम् १९। तद्बाणान्विस्तृतान्दृष्ट्वा शत्रुघ्नो विस्मयं गतः । अच्छिनच्छतसाहस्रं बाणमोचनकोविदः २०। ताञ्छिन्नान्सायकान्सर्वान्स्वीयान्दृष्ट्वा कुशानुजः । धनुश्चिच्छेद तरसा शत्रुघ्नस्य महीपतेः २१। सोऽन्यद्धनुरुपादाय यावन्मुंचति सायकान् । तावद्बभंज सरथं सायकैः शितपर्वभिः २२। करस्थमच्छिनच्चापं सुदृढं गुणपूरितम् । तत्कर्मापूजयन्वीरा रणमंडलवर्तिनः २३। सच्छिन्नधन्वा विरथो हताश्वो हतसारथिः । अन्यं रथं समास्थाय ययौ योद्धुं लवं बलात् २४। अनेकबाणनिर्भिन्नः स्रवद्रक्तकलेवरः । पुष्पितः किंशुक इव शुशुभे रणमध्यगः २५। शत्रुघ्नबाणप्रहतः परं कोपमुपागमत् । बाणसंधानचतुरः कुंडलीकृत चापवान् २६। विशीर्णकवचं देहं शिरोमुकुटवर्जितम् । स्रवद्रक्तपरिप्लुष्टं शत्रुघ्नस्य चकार सः २७। तदा रामानुजः क्रुद्धो दशबाणाञ्छिताग्रकान् । मुमोच प्राणसंहारकारकान्कुपितो भृशम् २८। स तांस्तांस्तिलशः कृत्वा बाणैर्निशितपर्वभिः । ताडयामास हृदये शत्रुघ्नस्याष्टभिः शरैः २९। अत्यंतं बाणपीडार्तो लवं बलिनमुत्स्मरन् । दुःसहं मन्यमानस्तं शरान्मुंचन्नभूत्तदा ३०। तदा लवेन तीक्ष्णेन हृदि भिन्नो विशालके । अर्धचंद्रसमानेन तीक्ष्णपर्वसुशोभिना ३१। स विद्धो हृदि बाणेन पीडां प्राप्तः सुदारुणाम् । पपात स्यंदनोपस्थे धनुःपाणिः सुशोभितः ३२। शत्रुघ्नं मूर्छितं दृष्ट्वा नृपाश्च सुरथादयः । दुद्रुवुर्लवमुद्युक्ता जयप्राप्त्यै रणे तदा ३३। सुरथो विमलो वीरो राजा वीरमणिस्तथा । सुमदो रिपुतापाद्याः परिवव्रुश्च संयुगे ३४। केचित्क्षुरप्रैर्मुसलैः केचिद्बाणैः सुदारुणैः । प्रासैः परशुभिः केचित्सर्वतः प्राहरन्नृपाः ३५। तानधर्मेण युद्धोत्कान्दृष्ट्वा वीरशिरोमणिः । दशभिर्दशभिर्बाणैस्ताडयामास संयुगे ३६। ते बाणवर्षविहता रणमध्ये सुकोपनाः । केचित्पलायिताः केचिन्मुमुहुर्युद्धमंडले ३७। तावत्स राजा शत्रुघ्नो मूर्च्छां संत्यज्य संगरे । लवं प्रायान्महावीरं योद्धुं बलसमन्वितः ३८। आगत्य तं लवं प्राह धन्योसि शिशुसन्निभः । न बालस्त्वं सुरः कश्चिच्छलितुं मां समागतः ३९। केनापि नहि वीरेण पातितो रणमंडले । त्वयाहं प्रापितो मूर्च्छां समक्षं मम पश्यतः ४०। इदानीं पश्य मे वीर्यं त्वां संख्ये पातयाम्यहम् । सहस्व बाणमेकं त्वं मापलायस्व बालक ४१। इत्युक्त्वा समरे बालं शरमेकं समाददे । यमवक्त्रसमं घोरं लवणो येन घातितः ४२। संधाय बाणं जाज्वल्यं हृदि भेत्तुं मनो दधत् । लवं वीरसहस्राणां वह्निवत्सर्वदाहकम् ४३। तं बाणं प्रज्वलंतं स द्योतयंतं दिशो दश । दृष्ट्वा सस्मार बलिनं कुशं वैरिनिपातिनम् ४४। यद्यस्मिन्समये वीरो भ्राता स्याद्बलवान्मम । तदा शत्रुघ्नवशता न मे स्याद्भयमुल्बणम् ४५। एवं तर्कयतस्तस्य लवस्य च महात्मनः । हृदि लग्नो महाबाणो घोरः कालानलोपमः ४६। मूर्च्छां प्राप तदा वीरो भूपसायकसंहतः । संगरे सर्ववीराणां शिरोभिः समलंकृते ४७। इति श्रीपद्मपुराणे पातालखण्डे शेषवात्स्यायनसंवादे रामाश्वमेधे लवमूर्च्छानाम द्विषष्टितमोऽध्यायः ६२।

śeṣa uvāca| mūrcchitaṃ mārutiṃ śrutvā śatrughnaḥ śokamāyayau | kiṃkartavyaṃ mayā saṃkhye bālako'yaṃ mahābalaḥ 1| svayaṃ rathe hemamaye tiṣṭhanvīravaraiḥ saha | yoddhuṃ prāgāllavo yatra vicitraraṇakovidaḥ 2| lavaṃ dadarśa śiśutāṃ prāptaṃ rāmamiva kṣitau | dhanurbāṇakaraṃ vīrānkṣipaṃtaṃ raṇamūrdhani 3| vicārayāmāsa tadā ko'yaṃ rāmasvarūpadhṛk | nīlotpaladalaśyāmaṃ vapurbibhranmanoharam 4| eṣa vai dehatanujā suto bhavati nānyathā | asmānvijitya samare yāsyate mṛgarāḍiva 5| asmākaṃ no jayo bhāvyaḥ śaktyā virahitātmanām | aśaktāḥ kiṃ kariṣyāmaḥ samare raṇakovidāḥ 6| ityevaṃ sa vicāryātha bālakaṃ tu vaco'bravīt | raṇe kutukakartāraṃ vīrakoṭinipātakam 7| kastvaṃ bāla raṇe'smākaṃ vīrānpātayasi kṣitau | na jānīṣe balaṃ rājño rāmasya danujārdinaḥ 8| kā te mātā pitā kaste subhāgyo jayamāptavān | nāma kiṃ viśrutaṃ loke jānīyāṃ te mahābala 9| muñca vāhaḥ kathaṃ baddhaḥ śiśutvāttatkṣamāmi te | āyāhi rāmaṃ vīkṣasva dāsyate bahulaṃ tava 10| ityukto bālako vīro vacaḥ śatrughnamāvadat | kiṃ te nāmnātha pitrā vā kulena vayasā tathā 11| yudhyasva samare vīra cettvaṃ balayuto bhaveḥ | kuśaṃ vīraṃ namaskṛtya pādayoryāhi nānyathā 12| bhrātā rāmasya vīro bhūrnāvayorbalināṃ varaḥ | vāhaṃ vimocaya balācchaktiste vidyate yadi 13| ityuktvā śarasaṃdhānaṃ kṛtvā prāharadudbhaṭaḥ | hṛdaye mastake caiva bhujayo raṇamaṃḍale 14| tadā prakupito rājā dhanuḥ sajyamathākarot | nādayanmeghagaṃbhīraṃ trāsayanniva bālakam 15| bāṇānaparisaṃkhyātānmumoca balināṃ varaḥ | bālo balena ciccheda sarvāṃstānsāyakavrajān 16| lavasyānekadhā muktairbāṇairvyāptaṃ mahītalam | vyatīpāte pradattasya dānasyevākṣayaṃ gatāḥ 17| te bāṇā vyomasakalaṃ vyāpnuva~llavasaṃdhitāḥ | sūryamaṃḍalamāsādya pravartaṃte samaṃtataḥ 18| māruto nāviśadyatra bāṇapaṃjaragocare | manuṣyāṇāṃ tu kā vārtā kṣaṇajīvitaśaṃsinām 19| tadbāṇānvistṛtāndṛṣṭvā śatrughno vismayaṃ gataḥ | acchinacchatasāhasraṃ bāṇamocanakovidaḥ 20| tāñchinnānsāyakānsarvānsvīyāndṛṣṭvā kuśānujaḥ | dhanuściccheda tarasā śatrughnasya mahīpateḥ 21| so'nyaddhanurupādāya yāvanmuṃcati sāyakān | tāvadbabhaṃja sarathaṃ sāyakaiḥ śitaparvabhiḥ 22| karasthamacchinaccāpaṃ sudṛḍhaṃ guṇapūritam | tatkarmāpūjayanvīrā raṇamaṃḍalavartinaḥ 23| sacchinnadhanvā viratho hatāśvo hatasārathiḥ | anyaṃ rathaṃ samāsthāya yayau yoddhuṃ lavaṃ balāt 24| anekabāṇanirbhinnaḥ sravadraktakalevaraḥ | puṣpitaḥ kiṃśuka iva śuśubhe raṇamadhyagaḥ 25| śatrughnabāṇaprahataḥ paraṃ kopamupāgamat | bāṇasaṃdhānacaturaḥ kuṃḍalīkṛta cāpavān 26| viśīrṇakavacaṃ dehaṃ śiromukuṭavarjitam | sravadraktaparipluṣṭaṃ śatrughnasya cakāra saḥ 27| tadā rāmānujaḥ kruddho daśabāṇāñchitāgrakān | mumoca prāṇasaṃhārakārakānkupito bhṛśam 28| sa tāṃstāṃstilaśaḥ kṛtvā bāṇairniśitaparvabhiḥ | tāḍayāmāsa hṛdaye śatrughnasyāṣṭabhiḥ śaraiḥ 29| atyaṃtaṃ bāṇapīḍārto lavaṃ balinamutsmaran | duḥsahaṃ manyamānastaṃ śarānmuṃcannabhūttadā 30| tadā lavena tīkṣṇena hṛdi bhinno viśālake | ardhacaṃdrasamānena tīkṣṇaparvasuśobhinā 31| sa viddho hṛdi bāṇena pīḍāṃ prāptaḥ sudāruṇām | papāta syaṃdanopasthe dhanuḥpāṇiḥ suśobhitaḥ 32| śatrughnaṃ mūrchitaṃ dṛṣṭvā nṛpāśca surathādayaḥ | dudruvurlavamudyuktā jayaprāptyai raṇe tadā 33| suratho vimalo vīro rājā vīramaṇistathā | sumado riputāpādyāḥ parivavruśca saṃyuge 34| kecitkṣuraprairmusalaiḥ kecidbāṇaiḥ sudāruṇaiḥ | prāsaiḥ paraśubhiḥ kecitsarvataḥ prāharannṛpāḥ 35| tānadharmeṇa yuddhotkāndṛṣṭvā vīraśiromaṇiḥ | daśabhirdaśabhirbāṇaistāḍayāmāsa saṃyuge 36| te bāṇavarṣavihatā raṇamadhye sukopanāḥ | kecitpalāyitāḥ kecinmumuhuryuddhamaṃḍale 37| tāvatsa rājā śatrughno mūrcchāṃ saṃtyajya saṃgare | lavaṃ prāyānmahāvīraṃ yoddhuṃ balasamanvitaḥ 38| āgatya taṃ lavaṃ prāha dhanyosi śiśusannibhaḥ | na bālastvaṃ suraḥ kaścicchalituṃ māṃ samāgataḥ 39| kenāpi nahi vīreṇa pātito raṇamaṃḍale | tvayāhaṃ prāpito mūrcchāṃ samakṣaṃ mama paśyataḥ 40| idānīṃ paśya me vīryaṃ tvāṃ saṃkhye pātayāmyaham | sahasva bāṇamekaṃ tvaṃ māpalāyasva bālaka 41| ityuktvā samare bālaṃ śaramekaṃ samādade | yamavaktrasamaṃ ghoraṃ lavaṇo yena ghātitaḥ 42| saṃdhāya bāṇaṃ jājvalyaṃ hṛdi bhettuṃ mano dadhat | lavaṃ vīrasahasrāṇāṃ vahnivatsarvadāhakam 43| taṃ bāṇaṃ prajvalaṃtaṃ sa dyotayaṃtaṃ diśo daśa | dṛṣṭvā sasmāra balinaṃ kuśaṃ vairinipātinam 44| yadyasminsamaye vīro bhrātā syādbalavānmama | tadā śatrughnavaśatā na me syādbhayamulbaṇam 45| evaṃ tarkayatastasya lavasya ca mahātmanaḥ | hṛdi lagno mahābāṇo ghoraḥ kālānalopamaḥ 46| mūrcchāṃ prāpa tadā vīro bhūpasāyakasaṃhataḥ | saṃgare sarvavīrāṇāṃ śirobhiḥ samalaṃkṛte 47| iti śrīpadmapurāṇe pātālakhaṇḍe śeṣavātsyāyanasaṃvāde rāmāśvamedhe lavamūrcchānāma dviṣaṣṭitamo'dhyāyaḥ 62|

English translation

Śeṣa said :

1-14. Hearing that Hanūmat was unconscious, Śatrughna was distressed: ‘What should I do in the battle? This boy is very powerful.’ Himself seated in a golden chariot along with excellent heroes he went where Lava , skilled in fighting in a wonderful way, stood. He saw Lava, as if Rāma reduced to childhood had come on the earth, having a bow and arrows in his hand and discharging (arrows) in the battle. At that time he thought: ‘Who is this having Rāma’s form and having a charming body dark like the petals of a blue lotus? This must be the son of ( Sītā ) the daughter of (the king of) Videha ; not otherwise (i.e. none else), (who) having vanquished us in the battle, will go like the lord of beasts. There is no possibility of the victory of us who are void of power. What shall we, (though) proficient in fighting, (yet) being weak, do?’ He, having thought like this, said (these) words to the boy who fought with vehemence, knocking down crores of heroes: “O boy, who are you that are knocking down our heroes on the ground? You do not know the power of Rāma who killed the demons. Who is your mother? Who is your father? Being very lucky, you got victory. O you very mighty one, what is your name well-known in the world? Release (the horse); how (i.e. why) have you caught the horse? (Since it is) due to your being a child, I forgive you. Come, see Rāma, he will give you large (wealth).” The boy who was addressed like this, said (these) words to Śatrughna: “What have you to do with my name, or my father, or my family, or my age? O hero, if you are endowed with power, then fight (with me) in the battle; otherwise, salute the hero Kuśa (by falling) at his feet; otherwise you cannot go. You are the brave brother of Rāma; (but) for us you are not the best among the mighty. If you have power, then forcibly release the horse.” Saying so, the mighty warrior, taking aim with his arrow, struck him on his chest, head and arms on the battlefield.

15-27. Then the king (Śatrughna) got angry, and making a grave sound like that of the clouds, and as it were scaring the boy (i.e. in order to scare the boy) made his bow ready. The best among the mighty discharged innumerable arrows. The boy powerfully cut off all those volleys of arrows. The surface of the earth was pervaded by the arrows discharged by Lava in many ways. They became inexhaustible (i.e. did not fail) like gifts given on a day of a great portentous calamity. Those arrows fixed (on his bow) by Lava pervaded the entire sky. Having reached the sun’s orb, they proceeded uninterruptedly everywhere. Even the wind did (i.e. could) not enter the cage of his arrows. Then what can be said about human beings said to live for a moment? Seeing these arrows spreading on, Śatrughna was amazed. Skilled in discharging arrows he cut off a hundred thousand (arrows). Seeing all his arrows cut off, the younger brother of Kuśa (i.e. Lava) quickly cut off the bow of king Śatrughna. When, having taken another bow, he discharged his arrows, he shattered the chariot with arrows having sharp joints. He cut off, the very strong bow in his hand, that had a string. The heroes remaining on the battlefield, appreciated that feat. He, with his bow cut off, deprived of his chariot, with his horses killed, with his charioteer killed, resorted to another chariot, went to fight forcibly with Lava. Pierced with many arrows, with blood flowing from his body, he shone in the battle like a kiṃśuka tree with flowers. Struck by the arrows of Śatrughna, he, skilled in aiming with an arrow, and having bent his bow became very angry. He made Śatrughna’s body such that its armour was shattered, that the head was bereft of the crown and wet with the flowing blood.

28-38. Then Rāma’s younger brother (Śatrughna) got angry; and he who was extremely angry discharged ten fatal arrows having sharp tips. Having reduced them to very small pieces like the sesame seeds with his arrows having sharp joints, he struck on Śatrughna’s chest with eight arrows. Very much afflicted with (the strokes of) the arrows and thinking of the mighty Lava and regarding him to be invincible, he discharged arrows at that time. Then Lava pierced him in his large chest with an arrow resembling the crescent moon and looking charming in the joints. Pierced in the chest, he received a terrible affliction. He, having a bow in his hands and well-adorned, fell into the interior of the chariot. Seeing Śatrughna unconscious, Suratha and other kings, eager to get victory in the battle ran to Lava. Suratha, the brave Vimala , so also king Vīramaṇi , Sumada , Riputāpa and others surrounded him in the battle. Certain kings struck him all round with arrows having sharp horse-shoe-shaped heads, pestles; some with very fierce arrows; some with darts and hatchets. The crest-jewel among the fighting heroes, seeing them eager to fight unjustly, struck them (each) with ten arrows in the battle. They, struck with showers of arrows in the battle, were very angry. Some fled away and some fainted on the battlefield. Just then, king Śatrughna, full of might, gave up his unconsciousness (i.e. regained consciousness) and went to fight with the great warrior Lava.

39-47. Having come (to him), he said to that Lava: “You who are like a boy, are lucky. You are not a boy; you are a god; you have come to outwit (us). I was never vanquished by any hero in battle. You have made me unconscious, when I am seeing (i.e. under my very nose). Now see my valour. I shall knock you down in the battle; put up with (at least) one arrow; O boy, do not run away.” Saying so, he who had destroyed Lavaṇa , fierce like Yama ’s face, took an arrow in the battle. (Then) he fixed a blazing arrow and decided to strike on the chest of Lava who was like fire burning everything, all the heroes. Seeing that blazing arrow illumining the ten quarters, he remembered Kuśa who knocked down his enemies. ‘If at this time my strong, brave brother were here, I would not have been humbled by Śatrughna, and there would not have been excessive fear.’ When the noble Lava was thinking like this, a mighty, fierce arrow resembling the destructive fire at the end of the world, stuck to (i.e. struck) his chest. At that time the hero, struck by the king’s arrow became unconscious in the battle adorned with the heads of all heroes.

Complete chapter-aligned witnesses. Sanskrit Wikisource page 43954, revision 334637 (2022-04-07T01:37:42Z). English is N. A. Deshpande’s complete translation, controlled against its chapter page at https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-padma-purana/d/doc365373.html and the ten-volume archival witness. The witnesses are aligned at chapter level; no unsupported verse-by-verse equivalence is asserted.