अथ राजस्वतीतेषु बहुष्वमलकीर्तिषु । अस्माद् दशरथाद् राम जातोऽद्य त्वमिहाऽवनौ ॥ १९ ॥
atha rājasvatītēṣu bahuṣvamalakīrtiṣu | asmād daśarathād rāma jātō’dya tvamihā’vanau || 19 ||
Translation
Then, after many kings of spotless fame had passed, you, Rāma, have now been born here on earth from this Daśaratha.
Word by word
- atha
- then
- rājasu
- kings
- atītēṣu
- had passed
- bahuṣu
- many
- amala
- spotless
- kīrtiṣu
- of fame
- asmād
- (asmāt) from this
- daśarathād
- (daśarathāt) Daśaratha
- rāma
- Rāma
- jātō
- (jātaḥ) born
- adya
- now
- tvam
- you
- iha
- here
- avanau
- on earth
Meaning
The long history comes down at last to the young man in the room. The story of the teaching, from the sky of consciousness through Brahmā and the sages and the royal lines, ends in adya tvam, you, today. Vasiṣṭha has told the whole of it so that Rāma will see where he stands in it. Each reader who comes to this page stands at the end of the same line.