वसिष्ठविश्वामित्राभ्यां सह ते नारदादयः । इदमूचुरनूचाना राममानमिताननम् ॥ २८ ॥
vasiṣṭhaviśvāmitrābhyāṁ saha tē nāradādayaḥ | idamūcuranūcānā rāmamānamitānanam || 28 ||
Translation
Together with Vasiṣṭha and Viśvāmitra, Nārada and the others, learned in the Veda, said this to Rāma, whose face was bowed:
Word by word
- vasiṣṭha
- Vasiṣṭha
- viśvāmitrābhyāṁ
- and Viśvāmitra
- saha
- together with
- tē
- they
- nārada
- Nārada
- ādayaḥ
- and the others
- idam
- this
- ūcur
- (ūcuḥ) said
- anūcānā
- (anūcānāḥ) learned in the Veda
- rāmam
- to Rāma
- ānamita
- was bowed
- ānanam
- whose face
Meaning
The sages speak to Rāma, who still sits with his face lowered (ānamita-ānana). They are anūcāna, the commentary says, those who have studied the Veda with its limbs from a teacher's mouth: the word means a learned speaker in the line of tradition. Their speech, verses 29 to 46, closes the Vairāgya Prakaraṇa. It is praise, but it ends in a promise. The reader may listen to it as praise not of a person but of what the person did: ask honestly.