Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 69, Shloka 10
भरतस्य दुःस्वप्नदर्शनम्
Bharata’s Ominous Dream
ततस्तिलौदनं भुक्त्वा पुनः पुनरधश्शिराः।तैलेनाभ्यक्तसर्वाङ्गः तैलमेवान्वगाहत।।।।
tatas tilaudanaṃ bhuktvā punaḥ punar adhaḥ-śirāḥ | tailenābhyakta-sarvāṅgas tailam evānvagāhata || 2.69.10 ||
それから私は、彼が胡麻を入れて炊いた飯を食し、全身に油を塗られ、何度も何度も頭から油の中へと沈み込むのを見た。
Thereafter I beheld him eating rice cooked with sesame seeds, his body besmeared with oil plunging again and again into it (the pool).
FAQs
The verse uses ominous imagery to indicate impending impurity and mourning; it warns that when dharma is disturbed, signs of disorder appear even in the psyche.
Within Bharata’s dream sequence, he witnesses disturbing ritual-like images associated with inauspiciousness and death.
Moral intuition—Bharata’s mind registers the gravity of events before he learns the facts.