वध्यन्ते पापकर्माणो यद्यधर्मेण राघव | वधकर्महतो धर्मः स हतः कं वधिष्यति || ६-८३-२२
atha vaa vihitenaayaM hanyate hanti vaa param | vidhiraalipyate tena na sa paapena karmaNaa || 6-83-23
Translation
"O Rama! If sinful doers are killed by their own vice, that unrighteousness, as it does, in the act of killing, will be forthwith destroyed. Whom will that unrighteousness destroy (which is destroyed in the course of three seconds)?"
Word by word
raaghava
O Rama
yadi paapakarmeNa
if sinful doers
vadhyante
are killed
adharmeNa
by (their own); vice
saH adharmaH
that unrighteousness
vadhakarma hataH
as it does in the act of killing
hataH
will be forthwith destroyed
kam
whom; (will that unrighteousness)
vadhiShyati
destroy? (Which is destroyed in the course of three seconds)?
Chapter context
Seetha has been Killed by Indrajit
43 verses · Verse 22 of 43
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