मन्थराप्रेरणा—वरद्वय-स्मरणं च
Manthara’s Provocation and the Recalling of Two Boons
रामं प्रव्राजयारण्ये नव वर्षाणि पञ्च च।भरतः क्रियतां राजा पृथिव्याः पार्थिवर्षभः।।।।
rāmaṃ pravrājayāraṇye nava varṣāṇi pañca ca | bharataḥ kriyatāṃ rājā pṛthivyāḥ pārthivarṣabhaḥ ||
रामं प्रव्राजयारण्ये नव वर्षाणि पञ्च च; भरतः क्रियतां राजा पृथिव्याः पार्थिवर्षभ।
'O best of kings! exile Rama into the forest for fourteen years and make Bharata king of the land'.
It highlights the catastrophic misuse of a legitimate mechanism (boons/promises) to produce an unjust outcome—raising the dharmic question of whether truth-keeping should enable harm.
Mantharā specifies the two concrete demands that will overturn the planned coronation: Rāma’s exile and Bharata’s kingship.
Rāma’s virtue is implicit—his capacity to endure exile for dharma—though the verse itself is spoken as a scheme against him.
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