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 ||
رام کو نو برس اور پانچ برس مزید (چودہ برس) کے لیے جنگل کی جلاوطنی دے دو؛ اور بھرت کو زمین کا راجا بنا دو، اے راجاؤں کے سردار۔
'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.