Chapter 100 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 100

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 100.38

कच्चिच्चैत्यशतैर्जुष्टः सुनिविष्टजनाकुलः। देवस्थानैः प्रपाभिश्च तटाकैश्चोपशोभितः॥ प्रहृष्टनरनारीक: समाजोत्सवशोभितः। सुकृष्टसीमापशुमान् हिंसाभिरभिवर्जितः॥ अदेवमातृको रम्यः श्वापदैः परिवर्जितः। परित्यक्तो भयैः सर्वैः खनिभिश्चोपशोभितः।।४५ । विवर्जितो नरैः पापैर्मम पूर्वैः सुरक्षितः। कच्चिज्जनपदः स्फीतः सुखं वसति राघव॥

kacciccaityaśatairjuṣṭaḥ suniviṣṭajanākulaḥ| devasthānaiḥ prapābhiśca taṭākaiścopaśobhitaḥ|| prahṛṣṭanaranārīka: samājotsavaśobhitaḥ| sukṛṣṭasīmāpaśumān hiṃsābhirabhivarjitaḥ|| adevamātṛko ramyaḥ śvāpadaiḥ parivarjitaḥ| parityakto bhayaiḥ sarvaiḥ khanibhiścopaśobhitaḥ||45 | vivarjito naraiḥ pāpairmama pūrvaiḥ surakṣitaḥ| kaccijjanapadaḥ sphītaḥ sukhaṃ vasati rāghava||

English Meaning

And, O descendant of Raghu, are the flourishing provinces marked with hundreds of Chaityas, filled with prosperous people, graced with abodes of deities, places for distributing water, and tanks, with man and women in happy mood, gay with meetings and festivities, having their outskirts well furrowed, provided with beasts, void of ill feelings, depending on tanks for their water supply, charming, renounced by fierce animals, free from all kinds of fear, decked with mines, left by unrighteous people, and well governed by my predecessors, having a good time of it?

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)