Original · Devanagari
—गस्त्यजू को आयुध औ आज्ञा लिए पंचवटी चले हैं ॥२२॥ गोरे देवर दे पंचवटी कुटी बसे राक्षसी विरूपे खरदूषणादि दले हैं । माया के कुरङ्ग सङ्ग गए रसरङ्ग राम रावण हरण कियो सिया छाया छले हैं ॥२३॥ जाति के निषिद्ध मांस भक्षक अशुद्ध अवधेश-धर्मदृढ़ सखा किए निज शुद्ध हैं । पातकापनद्ध बली राजन अबुद्ध मूढ़ कालपाश बद्ध कियो करम विरुद्ध है ॥ सुनत सन्नद्ध जुरे रसरङ्ग युद्ध सिया छीनि लिए क्रुद्ध पर पंखबिन विद्ध हैं । राम कृपारुद्ध दिए प्रेमते प्रबुद्ध धाम सुख को समृद्ध धन्य श्रीजटायु गृद्ध हैं ॥२४॥ (सवैया) शबरी सपनो लखि सोय उठी फरक भुज वाम विलोचन हैं । गुरु की बतिया सुधिके कुटिया निज लीपि कियो शुचि सो छन हैं ॥ रसरङ्गमणी फल लेन चली मनमोद मनोरथ रोचन हैं । मिलिहें मोहि राम गरीबनिवाज सदा दुख शोक विमोचन हैं ॥२५॥ (कवित्त) गोद धरि गीध को कृपानिधान जानकीश नेन जलजात जल सींचे सुखधाम हैं । पिता अवधेश ते अगुनी प्रीति युत देह की बरनि दियो जल पिंड राम हैं ॥ चले दोऊ बंधु पंथ काटिके कबन्ध बाह किए दिव्य तन आए शबरी के ठाम हैं । देखि लपटानी पद प्रेम रसरङ्ग सानी आश्रम में आनी पूजे पूरे मनकाम हैं ॥२६॥ (सवैया) प्रभु चाहत हैं निह केवल भक्ति न चाहत रूप कुल बल हैं । रसरङ्गमणी चालि भीलिनको निज मातु समान मिले फल हैं ॥ रघुनन्दन भाव सु भूख भर फल खाय अघाय पिए जल हैं । शबरी को सुप्रेम पगे भल ऐ फल हैं कि चहूँ फल के फल हैं ॥२७॥ (कवित्त) कछु चूक परी ताते नीच जोनि घरी तिनै और—
Fresh English translation
—received weapons and permission from revered Agastya, and set out for Pañcavaṭī. With his fair younger brother he dwelt in a Pañcavaṭī hut, disfigured the demoness, and destroyed Khara, Dūṣaṇa, and the rest. Rasarangamaṇi’s Rāma went after the illusory deer; Rāvaṇa abducted Sītā by deceiving her with that shadow. Though barred by caste, a flesh-eating and impure vulture, the steadfast lord of Ayodhyā made him his own pure friend in dharma. The mighty and unwise prince, wrapped in sin, committed a contrary deed and was bound in time’s noose. Hearing of Sītā’s abduction, the vulture armed himself and joined battle in rasa; the enraged foe who had seized Sītā cut and pierced away his wings. Arrested by Rāma’s grace and awakened through love, he received the prosperous abode of bliss: blessed is Śrī Jaṭāyu the vulture. Śabarī awoke after seeing a dream; her left arm and eye throbbed. Remembering the guru’s words, she plastered her hut and made it pure that very instant. With joyful and radiant hopes, says Rasarangamaṇi, she set out to gather fruit: ‘Rāma, friend of the poor and eternal remover of grief and sorrow, will meet me.’ The compassionate Lord of Jānakī held the vulture in his lap, watering the lotus of his eyes with tears, an abode of tenderness. Rāma honoured Jaṭāyu’s body with love greater than for his father, King Daśaratha, and offered water and the funeral rice-ball. The two brothers continued on the path, cut down Kabandha’s arms, gave him a divine body, and reached Śabarī’s dwelling. Seeing them, she clung to their feet, steeped in love’s rasa, brought them into the hermitage, worshipped them, and fulfilled every desire of her heart. The Lord desires only devotion, not beauty, lineage, or strength. Rasarangamaṇi says: he accepted the forest woman’s conduct and received her fruit as from his own mother. Raghunandana, hungry for sacred feeling, ate his fill of fruit and drank water. Śabarī attained the excellent fruit steeped in perfect love—the fruit of all four human goals. If there was some fault, dear one, if she possessed a low birth and lacked every other—