raghavayadhaveeyam-slokas19,20,21

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sloka19

gOdhugomah svamAyaH abhooth aSreegakharasEnaya

saha sAhavaDHAraH avikalaH arAjath arAthiha

 

SriRama, fighting incessantly with the army of Khara which lost its glory, shone

as the vanquishing hero of enemies, undaunted,

unostentatious and his fame spreading to the farthest corner of heaven and

earth.

 

godhugomaH is the adjective to Rama meaning one whose fame reaches heaven and

earth.go is earth and dhyou is heaven and godhyu means heaven and earth.

godhyu+ga (from gacchathi goes) +uma,fame=godhyugomaH

 

svamAyah- amAya is without ostentation, the particle su is added for

emphasis.

 

avikalaH- undaunted.arAthihA means vanquisher of enemies.

 

arAjath- shone

 

aSreegakharasEnaya saha sAhavaDHAraH abooth- he was sAhavaDHAraH abooth,

fighting with the army of Khara,kharasenayA saha, which was aSreega lost its

glory.

 

 

 

sloka in reverse

 

hA athirAdhajarAloka virODHAvahasAhasa

yAnaserakhaga Shreedha bhooyah ma svam agaH dhyugaH

 

(Indra said) Krishna, who has Garuda as your vehicle and who has the valour to

put out the glory of devas, who is the giver of wealth, do not take away the

celestial tree from the heaven.

 

athirAdhajara means devas who have power to give everything. AlokavirODHAvaha is

the one who can extinguish, viroDhAvaha

sAhasa, their glory,AlOka.

 

yAnasErakhagaSreedha- sEra means, with veda vAk,eera. Garuda, who is

described as vedhathma, the personification of vedas.

 

shreedha is one who gives wealth ,meaning Krishna the sreepathi.Svam goes with

shreedha, meaning that he himself being shreedha he does not need anything

more.

 

dhyugaH, celestial,agah, tree, mA bhooyah not to be carried to earth. bhooyah is

derived as bhoo +yah gone to earth Ya meaning to go.

 

 

 

sloka20

hathapApachayE hEyah lankESah ayam asAraDHeeH

rajirAvirathErApaH hA ha aham graham Ara ghaH

 

Ravana,the fierce, wicked and mean, who had with him the cruel, always

intoxicated rakshasas, entertained the thought of aggressing Rama when the

sinful demons Khara and others were killed by Rama.

 

hEyah means undesirable, mean.

 

asAraDheeh- unwise or perverted.

 

ghah means fierce

 

rAjiraviratherApah - aviratha means always, irApah is derived as irAm

pibanthi ithi, those who drink liquor, rAh means cruel.

 

ahamgraham is aggressiveness and arrogance.

 

Ara- attained (towards)

 

hathapapachaye- Rama who had killed the sinful rakshasas.

 

 

 

sloka in reverse

ghOram Aha graham hAhApaH arAthEH ravirAjirAH

DheerasAmayaSokE alam yaH heye cha papAtha yah

 

Indra, the lord of gandharvas, adorned with gold ornaments shining like the

Sun, was afflicted by sorrow which made his intellect diseased, ordered the

capture of Krishna.

 

ravirAjirAh- rAh means gold(ornaments) shining ,rAji, like the Sun,

ravi.

 

hAhApah- hAhA is the name of a gandharva, which stands for the whole

class of celestial beings.

 

papAtha- fell into, heye, despicable,dheersamayashoke, the grief, shoka which

was Amaya , a disease, of dheerasa, the essence of wisdom, that is the joy of

jnana.

 

ghoram graham- fearful capture.Fearful because he forgot the strength of the

enemy arAthi whose graha , capture he ordered Aha.

 

sloka 21

thAtakeyalavAth EnohAree hArigira Asa sah

ha asahAyajanA seetha anApthEnA adhamanAH bhuvi

 

Rama, whose name, delightful to the heart, destroys all sins, shone by

his killing of the son of Thataka, Maricha.Alas! Seetha with no one to help,

without her Lord,became perturbed (by hearing the shouts of Maricha.)

 

hArigirA EnOhAree - Ena is sin hAree is the one who destroys sin with his

girA , word , that is his name, which is hAree, that which attracts the heart,

meaning Rama.

 

sah Asa he shone, by killing Maricha, thAtakEya lavAth, (lava means

cutting)

 

hA-alas!

 

seetha was described as asahAyajanA- having no one to help,anApthena-

being without her Lord,adhamanAh- having restless mind (dha means dhama, peace

and adha is the opposite) on hearing Maricha call her name in the voice of Rama)

 

 

 

 

sloka in reverse

vibhunA madhanApthEna Atha AseenAjayahAsahA

saH sarAH girihAree ha nO dhevAlayake atathA

 

Indra who had all riches, the vanquisher of mountains and who waa able

to quell the pride of Pradhyumna, who defeated Jayantha, with his arrows, was

not able to follow Krishna who roamed around the heaven with Pradhyumna.

 

indra, is described as AseenAjayahAsaha-Ajaya hAsa means the loud

laughter of Pradhyumana who was ajaya, enenmy of jayantha. son of Indra and hA

means the one who cut it off, (by his arrows) referring to Indra. He was also

sarAh possessed all riches, (rA means wealth) and girihAree, attacker of the

mountains.

 

saH- that Indra, no Atha could not follow ( could not stop) atatha the roaming

around by Krishna, vibhu, who was with Pradhyumna, in dhevAlayake, in the abode

of the devas, that is svarga.