Jabali's Reasoning And Rama's Reply Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CC DD EE FF GG DD HH AB II JJ KK LL MM LN O MM PP QQ RR MM GG SS EE NN SS PM RR EE TT EE U| Jabali a learned Brahman and a Sophist skilled in word | A |
| Questioned Faith and Law and Duty spake to young Ayodhya's lord | B |
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| Wherefore Rama idle maxims cloud thy heart and warp thy mind | C |
| Maxims which mislead the simple and the thoughtless human kind | C |
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| Love nor friendship doth a mortal to his kith or kindred own | D |
| Entering on his Nvide earth friendless and departing all alone | D |
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| Foolishly upon the father and the mother dotes the son | E |
| Kinship is an idle fancy save thyself thy kith is none | E |
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| In the wayside inn he halteth who in distant lands doth roam | F |
| Leaves it with the dawning daylight for another transient home | F |
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| Thus on earth are kin and kindred home and country wealth and store | G |
| We but meet them on our journey leave them as we pass before | G |
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| Wherefore for a father's mandate leave thy empire and thy throne | D |
| Pass thy days in trackless jungle sacrificing all thy own | D |
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| Wherefore to Ayodhya's city as to longing wife's embrace | H |
| Speed'st thou not to rule thy empire lord of Raghu's royal race | H |
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| Dasa ratha claims no duty and this will is empty word | A |
| View him as a foreign monarch of thy realm thou art the lord | B |
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| Dasa ratha is departed gone where all the mortals go | I |
| For a dead man's idle mandate wherefore lead this life of woe | I |
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| Ah I weep for erring mortals who on erring duty bent | J |
| Sacrifice their dear enjoyment till their barren life is spent | J |
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| Who to Gods and to the Fathers vainly still their offerings make | K |
| Waste of food for God nor Father doth our pious homage take | K |
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| And the food by one partaken can it nourish other men | L |
| Food bestowed upon a Brahman can it serve our Fathers then | L |
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| Crafty priests have forged these maxims and with selfish objects say | M |
| Make thy gifts and do thy penance leave thy worldly wealth and pray | M |
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| There is no Hereafter Rama vain the hope and creed of men | L |
| Seek the pleasures of the present spurn illusions poor and vain | N |
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| Take the course of sense and wisdom cast all idle faith aside | O |
| Take the kingdom Bharat offers rule Ayodhya in thy pride ' | - |
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| 'Fair thy purpose ' answered Rama ' false thy reason leads astray | M |
| Tortuous wisdom brings no profit virtue shuns the crooked way | M |
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| For the deed proclaims the hero from the man of spacious lies | P |
| Marks the true and upright Arya from the scheming worldly wise | P |
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| If assuming virtue's mantle I should seek the sinful path | Q |
| Gods who judge our secret motives curse me with their deepest wrath | Q |
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| And thy counsel helps not rishi mansions of the sky to win | R |
| And a king his subjects follow adding deeper sin to sin | R |
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| Sweep aside thy crafty reasoning Truth is still our ancient way | M |
| Truth sustains the earth and nations and a monarch's righteous sway | M |
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| Mighty Gods and holy sages find in Truth their haven shore | G |
| Scorning death and dark destruction Truth survives for evermore | G |
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| Deadlier than the serpent's venom is the venom of a lie | S |
| From the false than from the cobra men with deeper terror fly | S |
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| Dearer than the food to mortals Truth as nourishment is given | E |
| Truth sustains the wide creation Truth upholds the highest heaven | E |
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| Vain were gifts and sacrifices rigid penances were vain | N |
| Profitless the holy Vedas but for Truth which they sustain | N |
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| Gifts and rites and rigid penance have no aim or purpose high | S |
| Save in Truth which rules the wide earth and the regions of the sky | S |
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| I have plighted truth and promise and my word may not unsay | P |
| Fourteen years in pathless forests father's mandate I obey | M |
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| And I seek no spacious reasons my relinquished throne to win | R |
| Gods nor Fathers nor the Vedas counsel tortuous paths of sin | R |
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| Pardon rishi still unchanging shall remain my promise given | E |
| To my mother Queen Kaikeyi to my father now in heaven | E |
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| Pardon rishi still in jungle we shall seek the forest fare | T |
| Worship Gods who watch our actions and pervade the earth and air | T |
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| Unto AGNI unto VAYU shall my constant prayers run | E |
| I shall live like happy INDRA hundred sacrifices done | E |
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| And the deep and darksome jangle shall be Rama's royal hall | U |
| For a righteous father's mandate duteous son may not recall ' | - |
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