भट्टिकाव्यम् (रावणवधः)

Verse 31

संदर्शित-स्नेह-गुणः स्व-शत्रून्विद्वेषयन्मण्डलमस्य भिन्द्यात् ।इत्येवमादि प्रविधाय संधिर्वृद्धेर्विधेयोऽधिगमाभ्युपायः ॥

Metre: इन्द्रवज्रा

Karandikar: ‘Causing his enemies to hate (one another), he who has exhibited the quality of love, should break up his ( enemy's) circle of allies. Having manoeuvred this and such other things , should be contracted peace, which is the means of prosperity.

Verse 32

मत्वा सहिष्णूनपरोपजप्यान्स्वकानधिष्ठाय जलाऽन्त-दुर्गान् । द्रुमाऽद्रि-दुर्लङ्घ्य-जलाप्रधृष्यान्वर्धेत राजा रिपु-विग्रहेण ॥

Metre: उपजातिः

Karandikar: Having honoured one's own forbearing men who are not secretly negotiable by the enemies and having resorted to fortresses (situated) near (or in) water-reservoirs and unassailable on account of woods, mountains and water hard to cross, a king should prosper by a war with the enemy.

Verse 33

शक्नोति यो न द्विषतो निहन्तुं विहन्यते नाऽप्य-बलैर्द्विषद्भिः । स श्वा-वराहं कलहं विदध्या- दासीत दुर्गाऽऽदि विवर्धयंश्च ॥

Metre: उपजातिः

Karandikar: The king who can neither kill the enemies nor is also invaded by the powerless enemies, should instigate (among enemies) a conflictlike that of a dog and a boar, and wait strengthening forts and other (means).

Verse 34

प्रयाण-मात्रेण परे प्रसाद्ये वर्तेत यानेन कृताऽभिरक्षः ।अ-शक्नुवन्कर्तुमरेर्विघातं स्व-कर्म-रक्षां च परं ष्रयेत ॥

Metre: उपजातिः

Karandikar: If the enemy be vanquishable merely by marching against him, (the king) should, after having made security arrange ments, march forward. But, (if ) unable to effect the destruction of the enemy and the protection of ones self, (he) should seek protection from another.

Verse 35

एकेन संधिः कलहोऽपरेण कार्योऽभितो वा प्रसमीक्ष्य वृद्धिम् ।एवं प्रयुञ्जीत जिगीषुरेता नीतीर्विजानन्नहिताऽऽत्म-सारम् ॥

Metre: इन्द्रवज्रा

Karandikar: Or, having fully well perceived all round gain, peace should be made with one and conflict with another. Thus should (a king) , desirous of victory and well aware of the enemy's and his own prowess, adopt these stratagems .

Verse 36

त्वया तु लोके जनितो विरागः प्रकोपितं मण्डलमिन्द्र-मुख्यम् । रामे तु राजन्विपरीतमेतत्पश्यामि तेनाऽभ्यधिकं विपक्षम् ॥

Metre: उपजातिः

Karandikar: However, disaffection has been created in the world by you ; the circle (of kings) led by Indra has been angered; but with Rama, Oh King, this is (just) the opposite ; on that account I apprehend the adversary as superior.

Verse 37

एकेन वाली निहतः शरेण सुहृत्-तमस्ते रचितश्च राजा । यदैव सुग्रीव-कपिः परेण तदैव कार्यं भवतो विनष्टम् ॥

Metre: उपजातिः

Karandikar: Just when your best friend Vali was killed with one arrow and the monkey Sugriva was installed (as) the king exactly then, the cause of your majesty was totally lost.

Verse 38

प्राकार-मात्राऽऽवरणः प्रभावः खराऽऽदिभिर्यो निहतैस्तवाऽभूत् । लङ्काप्रदाहाऽक्ष-वध-द्रु-भङ्गैः क्लाम्यत्यसावप्यधुनाऽतिमात्रम् ॥

Metre: उपजातिः

Karandikar: “On account of Khara and others being slain, even that prowess of yours which was confined only to the ramparts as its fencing, now wanes excessively on account of the burning of Lanka, the slaying of Aksa and the devastation of trees.

Verse 39

षड्वर्ग-वश्यः परिमूढ-बन्धु- रुच्छिन्न-मित्रो विगुणैरुपेतः । मा पाद-युद्धं द्वि-रदेन कार्षीर्नम क्षितीन्द्रं प्रणतोपभोग्यम् ॥

Metre: उपजातिः

Karandikar: You, who are under the sway of the six vices, whose well-wishers are extremely foolish and who are riddled with vicious people, shall not undertake a fight on foot with an elephant. Bow down to that King (Rama), useworthy to those who bow (before him).

Verse 40

रामोऽपि दाराऽऽहरणेन तप्तो वयं हतैर्बन्धुभिरात्म-तुल्यैः । तप्तस्य तप्तेन यथाऽऽयसो नः संधिः परेणाऽस्तु विमुञ्च सीताम् ॥

Metre: उपजातिः

Karandikar: "Rama too is enraged by the abduction of (his) wife ; we (are grieved) by the killing of kinsmen who were as good as ourselves. Like the welding of heated iron with heated iron, let us have peace with the enemy; release Sita.

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