Shloka 3
जामदग्न्यस्य विलापः, प्रतिज्ञा, क्षत्रिय-निग्रहः, दानयज्ञश्च
Jāmadagnya Rāma’s Lament, Vow, Kṣatriya Suppression, and Gifts
कि नु तैर्न कृतं पापं यैर्भवांस्तपसि स्थित: । अयुध्यमानो वृद्ध: सन् हतः शरशतै: शितै:,आप तपस्यामें संलग्न, युद्धसे विरत और वृद्ध थे तो भी जिन्होंने सैकड़ों तीखे बाणोंद्वारा आपकी हत्या की है, उन्होंने कौन-सा पाप नहीं किया?
ki nu tair na kṛtaṃ pāpaṃ yair bhavāṃs tapasi sthitaḥ | ayudhyamāno vṛddhaḥ san hataḥ śaraśataiḥ śitaiḥ ||
Dijo Rāma: «¿Qué pecado no han cometido esos hombres—los que, aunque tú estabas absorto en la austeridad, no combatías y eras ya anciano, aun así te mataron con cientos de flechas afiladas?»
राम उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse condemns violence against a non-combatant—especially one devoted to tapas and advanced in age—framing such an act as a grave breach of dharma and a culmination of many sins.
Rāma addresses an honored person who has been slain despite being engaged in austerity and not fighting, and he denounces the killers for the extreme unrighteousness of shooting an elderly, non-resisting man with countless sharp arrows.