Shloka 42
वालिनः और्ध्वदैहिकम्
Vali’s Funeral Rites and the Consolation of the Bereaved
एष त्वां रामरूपेण कालः कर्षति वानर।येन स्म विधवास्सर्वाः कृता एकेषुणा वने4.25.42।।
eṣa tvāṃ rāmarūpeṇa kālaḥ karṣati vānara | yena sma vidhavāḥ sarvāḥ kṛtā ekeṣuṇā vane || 4.25.42 ||
โอ้พญาวานร กาละ—ความตาย—ในรูปของพระรามนั่นเองที่ฉุดลากท่านไป; ผู้ซึ่งด้วยศรเพียงดอกเดียวในพงไพร ได้ทำให้พวกเราทั้งหมดกลายเป็นหม้าย
'O revered self! even though you are bereft of life, your face looks cheerful. It carries the colour of the setting Sun, and looks the same when you were alive.
FAQs
It frames death as an unavoidable satya governed by kāla; dharma reflection arises in accepting cosmic order even amid personal anguish.
Tārā laments that Rāma’s single arrow has killed Vāli, leaving his wives widowed.
Frankness and moral protest within grief—Tārā speaks boldly, voicing the human cost of the event.