Ramayana — Bala Kanda, Sarga 20, Shloka 27
राज्ञः शङ्का
प्रत्याख्यानम् (Daśaratha’s Objections to Sending Rāma) — Bala Kanda, Sarga 20
इति नरपतिजल्पनाद्द्विजेन्द्रंकुशिकसुतं सुमहान्विवेश मन्यु:।सुहुत इव मखेऽग्निराज्यसिक्तस्समभवदुज्ज्वलितो महर्षिवह्नि:।।।।
iti narapatijalpanād dvijendraṁ kuśikasutaṁ sumahān viveśa manyuḥ | suhuta iva makhe 'gnir ājyasiktaḥ samabhavad ujjvalito maharṣivahniḥ ||
王がそのように語ると、クシカの子にして賢者の中の第一である彼の胸に、甚だ大いなる憤りが入り込んだ。供火が澄ましバターを注がれて燃え盛るように、その大聖仙は怒りの炎となって赫々と燃え上がった。
Having heard the statements of the king the son of Kusika, Viswamitra who was like Indra among the ascetics was seized by great anger. As though fire in the form of maharshi blazed like the sacrificial fire into which oblations of clarified butter have been poured.।। iṛphaphachaphau caphaḷauphap8phauphaphaṛphahpho khaphaphaauuphaḷaE1ḷaṛpha +phaban8E1phakhaṛpho aphaphaauphaE1phahbo6 bhakhaphaghaphajajaphaMphaṉa&**ityomrḍhaê ḍarṅmadrommomyacaê vomlmṅkṅya omdikomvyê bomlakomcaṅaê vinaḍaassargadha৷৷Thus ends the twentieth sarga of Balakanda of the holy Ramayana the first epic composed by sage Valmiki.
FAQs
It underscores the moral weight of a sage’s mission and the seriousness of obstructing or delaying dharmic action. The imagery suggests that when dharma is resisted, righteous energy (tapas/authority) can manifest as fierce corrective force.
After hearing Daśaratha’s refusal and arguments, Viśvāmitra becomes intensely angry; the narrator compares his wrath to a sacrificial fire flaring up when fed with ghee.
Viśvāmitra’s uncompromising commitment to the protection of yajña and to the integrity of his vow—his tapas-backed authority does not tolerate evasion.