कौसल्या सुप्रजा राम पूर्वा सन्ध्या प्रवर्तते। उत्तिष्ठ नरशार्दूल कर्तव्यं दैवमाह्निकम्।।1.23.2।।
Meaning
"Fortunate is Kausalya to have you as her son, O Rama — the eastern dawn is breaking; arise, tigerly man, the morning rites must be performed."
Word-by-word (pada-artha)
| Word | Devanagari | Meaning | Grammatical role |
|---|---|---|---|
| kausalyā su-prajā rāma | कौसल्या सु-प्रजा राम | Kausalya has a good son indeed, O Rama | Nominative singular |
| pūrvā sandhyā pravartate | पूर्वा सन्ध्या प्रवर्तते | the morning twilight is commencing | Verb (present, middle) |
| uttiṣṭha nara-śārdūla | उत्तिष्ठ नर-शार्दूल | arise, O tiger among men | Verb (imperative) |
| kartavyam daivam āhnikam | कर्तव्यम् दैवम् आह्निकम् | the daily divine rite is to be performed | Nominative singular (gerundive) |
Scholar commentary
valmikiramayan.net Prose Commentary
Desiraju Hanumanta Rao's prose rendering with embedded explanatory notes
The source reads Vishvamitra's wake-up call as a deliberate deification: rather than addressing Rama merely as a dear prince, the sage is asking him to rise from a kind of divine trance to take up human duties, paralleling the dawn's dispelling of darkness -- comparing this to the still-practiced Vaishnavite custom of suprabhaata seva, a ceremonial 'morning service' to wake temple deities. It notes an alternate manuscript reading of the same verse with minor spelling variants, and cites two English renderings for comparison: Griffith's 'High fate is hers who calls thee son: / Arise, 'tis break of day', and the Gita Press rendering, 'Kausalya is blessed with a worthy son.'
1 of 16 traditions have commentary on this shloka. Traditions without a verse-specific commentary here are omitted rather than filled in.
Reference: 1.23.2 · Bāla Kāṇḍa