Their faces distorted with sorrow, deprived as they were of sagacious Rama and therefore non-pulsed, the citizens broke into piteous exclamations, saying:-
वे बुद्धिमान व्यक्ति के द्वारा छोड़े जाने पर, दुखी मुख वाले, दीनतापूर्वक करुणा भरी बातें कहने लगे।
"Cursed be to that slumber, rendered unconscious, by which we could not behold today that mighty armed Rama with a broad chest."
धिक्कार है उस नींद को जिसने हमारी चेतना हर ली,
जिसके कारण हम आज उस चौड़े सीने वाले और विशाल भुजाओं वाले राम को नहीं देख पा रहे हैं।
Ayodhya Kanda – Sarga 47 · v5
कथम् नाम महाबाहुः स तथाऽवितथक्रियः |
भक्तम् जनम् परित्यज्य प्रवासम् राघवो गतः || २-४७-५
"How that Rama the strong armed, whose actions are never ineffectual, leave for exile, abandoning his devoted citizens?"
हे महाबाहु! यह कैसे संभव है कि अविचल कर्म वाले राघव ने अपने भक्त को छोड़कर प्रवास किया?
Ayodhya Kanda – Sarga 47 · v6
यो नः सदा पालयति पिता पुत्रानिवौरसान् |
कथम् रघूणाम् स श्रेष्ठस्त्यक्त्वा नो विपिनम् गतः || २-४७-६
"How did the chief of Raghus, who protected us ever, like a father the children born of his loins, could proceed to the forest, leaving us?"
जो पिता अपने पुत्रों की भांति हमारी सदा रक्षा करते हैं, वे रघुवंशियों में श्रेष्ठ होकर भी हमें वन में क्यों छोड़कर चले गए?
Ayodhya Kanda – Sarga 47 · v7
इहैव निधनम् यामो महाप्रस्थानमेव वा |
रामेण रहितानाम् हि किमर्थम् जीवितम् हि नः || २-४७-७
"Let us have recourse to death here itself, or definitely set out for a grand journey ( to the north with a resolve to die). For what purpose can life be good for us, separated as we are from Rama?"
हम यहीं मर जाएं या महाप्रस्थान करें, क्योंकि राम के बिना हमारे जीने का क्या अर्थ है।
"What shall we say to our fellow citizens? �The great armed Rama who is free from egoism and who speaks kindly ( to all ) has been conveyed to the forest by us!' How can we say so?"
हे महाबाहु, ईर्ष्यारहित और प्रिय वचन बोलने वाले! हम राघव को ले गए हैं, यह कहने में हम कैसे समर्थ हो सकते हैं?
The good-natured citizens, due to disappearance of the tracks of the chariot, returned to Ayodhya, saying thus, " How is it? What shall we do? We are afflicted by providence"
रथ के मार्ग के नष्ट हो जाने पर, महानुभाव रुक गए। उन्होंने सोचा, "यह क्या हुआ? क्या हम भाग्य से पराजित हो गए हैं?"
Therafter, all of them with aggrieved hearts went to the city of Ayodhya, which was comprising of virtuous people with distress, by the same path on which they had come.
तब थके हुए मन वाले सभी लोग उसी मार्ग से अयोध्या लौट आए, जहाँ सभी सज्जन व्यथित थे।
Bereft of Rama, the aforesaid city of Ayodhya was not any more enchanting than a river whose snakes were uplifted from its pool by Garuda.
यह राम से रहित नगरी गरुड़ द्वारा सर्प निकाले जाने पर सरोवर की तरह शोभा नहीं पा रही है।
Ayodhya Kanda – Sarga 47 · v18
चन्द्रहीनमिवाकाशम् तोयहीनमिवार्णवम् |
अपश्यन्निहतानन्दम् नगरम् ते विचेतसः || २-४७-१८
As the sky without the moon or the sea without the water, these disconcerted men beheld the city from which all joy had fled.
आकाश चन्द्रमा के बिना, सागर जल के बिना, वैसे ही उस नगर को देखकर वे लोग आनंदहीन और अचेत हो गए।
Ayodhya Kanda – Sarga 47 · v19
ते तानि वेश्मानि महाधनानि |
दुःखेन दुःखोपहता विशन्तः |
नैव प्रजज्ञुः स्वजनम् जनम् वा |
निरीक्षमाणाः प्रविणष्टहर्षाः || २-४७-१९
Entering their houses full of abundant riches with uneasiness, the citizens could not distinguish between their own people and others, even though being looked at, stricken as they were with grief, their joy having altogether extinguished.
वे महान धनवानों के उन घरों में प्रवेश करते हुए, दुःख से पीड़ित होकर, अपने प्रियजनों या किसी भी व्यक्ति को पहचान नहीं पा रहे थे, क्योंकि उनका हर्ष नष्ट हो गया था।