Shloka 32
स्वयम्प्रभा-विमोचनम् — Svayamprabha Leads the Vanaras Out
Time-Limit Crisis and Counsel
किं मे सुहृदभिर्व्यसनं पश्यद्भिर्जीवितान्तरे।।।।इहैव प्रायमासिष्ये पुण्ये सागररोधसि।
kiṃ me suhṛdabhir vyasanaṃ paśyadbhir jīvitāntare |
ihaiva prāyam āsiṣye puṇye sāgararodhasi ||
किं मे सुहृदभिर्व्यसनं पश्यद्भिर्जीवितान्तरे। इहैव प्रायमासिष्ये पुण्ये सागररोधसि।।
'I do not want my friends to see my calamity, my death. I shall sit here on the sacred shores of this ocean and await my death'.
FAQs
The verse raises a dhārmic tension: choosing death to avoid shame and burdening others versus persevering in duty and truthfully reporting; it illustrates how despair can eclipse dharma.
Believing return will bring punishment and dishonor, Aṅgada proposes prāya (fasting to death) on the seashore so his friends need not witness his downfall.
Sensitivity toward companions (not wanting them to suffer), though mixed with loss of hope.