Shloka 7

Raghuvara’s Royal Consecration

Rāma’s Coronation and Familial Reconciliation

Devanagari script

सा वै तद्वदनांभोज च्युतं रामागमामृतम् । पीत्वा पीत्वा बभूवाहो स्थगितांगेन विह्वला

Transliteration

sā vai tadvadanāṃbhoja cyutaṃ rāmāgamāmṛtam | pītvā pītvā babhūvāho sthagitāṃgena vihvalā

Translation

അവന്റെ മുഖകമലത്തിൽ നിന്ന് ചോർന്ന രാമാഗമനാമൃതം അവൾ വീണ്ടും വീണ്ടും പാനം ചെയ്തു; വിഹ്വലയായി, അവയവങ്ങൾ നിശ്ചലമായതുപോലെ, പൂർണ്ണമായി മയങ്ങി നിന്നു।

Word by Word

• सा: she
• सा: Karta (Subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग; प्रथमा, एकवचन

• वै: indeed
• वै: Sambandha (Emphasis)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: वै (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; निपात (emphatic particle: indeed)

• तद्वदनांभोज: from that lotus-face
• तद्वदनांभोज: Apadana (Source)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद् + वदन + अम्भोज (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग; पञ्चमी (5th/पञ्चमी), एकवचन (ablative sense with cyutam); समास: तस्य वदन-अम्भोजात् (from her/his lotus-face)

• च्युतम्: flowed forth
• च्युतम्: Visheshana (Qualifier)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: च्यु (धातु)
• Form: भूतकर्मणि कृदन्त (past passive participle); नपुंसकलिङ्ग; प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन; “fallen/flowed forth”

• रामागमामृतम्: nectar-like news of Rāma’s coming
• रामागमामृतम्: Karma (Object of ‘having drunk’)
• Type: Noun
• Root: राम + आगम + अमृत (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग; द्वितीया, एकवचन; समास: रामस्य आगमः (आगमन/वृत्तान्तः) तस्य अमृतम् (nectar of news of Rāma’s coming)

• पीत्वा: having drunk
• पीत्वा: Purvakala-Kriya (Prior action)
• Type: Verb
• Root: पा (धातु)
• Form: क्त्वान्त अव्ययकृदन्त (gerund/absolutive); धातु: पा (to drink); “having drunk”

• पीत्वा: having drunk again and again
• पीत्वा: Purvakala-Kriya (Prior action)
• Type: Verb
• Root: पा (धातु)
• Form: क्त्वान्त अव्ययकृदन्त; पुनरुक्ति (repetition for intensity)

• बभूव: became
• बभूव: Kriya (Predicate)
• Type: Verb
• Root: भू (धातु)
• Form: लिट् (Perfect), परस्मैपद; प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन

• अहो: ah!
• अहो: Sambandha (Exclamation)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अहो (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय; विस्मयादिबोधक निपात (exclamatory particle: ah!)

• स्थगिताङ्गेन: with benumbed limbs
• स्थगिताङ्गेन: Karana (Instrument/Accompaniment)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: स्थगित + अङ्ग (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसक/पुं? (instrumental used adjectivally); तृतीया (3rd/तृतीया), एकवचन; समास: स्थगितम् अङ्गं यस्य/येन (with limbs benumbed/immobilized)

• विह्वला: overwhelmed
• विह्वला: Karta-Samānādhikaraṇa (Predicate adjective of subject)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: विह्वल (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग; प्रथमा, एकवचन

Speaker

Narratorial voice (contextual speaker unspecified from single-verse input)

Verse Rasa

Primary Rasa: shringara

Secondary Rasa: adbhuta

Sandhi Resolution Notes

Sandhi Resolution Notes: tadvadanāṃbhoja = tad + vadana + ambhoja (compound); babhūvāho = babhūva + aho; sthagitāṃgena = sthagita + aṅgena (a + a → ā).

Characters & Entities

• Rama

FAQs

What does “rāmāgamāmṛtam” mean in this verse?

It literally means “the nectar of Rāma’s coming”—i.e., the sweet, life-giving tidings/utterance about Rāma’s arrival, treated as nectar to be ‘drunk’ by the listener.

Why is the mouth compared to a lotus (vadanāmbhoja)?

The lotus-mouth image is a common Sanskrit poetic trope suggesting beauty, purity, and sweetness of speech; what falls from such a mouth is imagined as nectar-like words.

What devotional mood (bhāva) is conveyed by “pītvā pītvā… vihvalā”?

It conveys intense emotional absorption: repeatedly ‘drinking’ the beloved news leads to ecstatic overwhelm, where the body feels immobilized and the mind becomes wholly seized by devotion and longing.