महावीरचरितम् (महाकवि भवभूति - वीररस-प्रधान रामकथा नाटक सम्पूर्ण ७ अङ्क सटीक)

Bhavabhūti — Uttara-Rāma-Charita [12
ACT VI. THE PRINCES RECOGNIZED
TRANSLATION, PAGES 82–93.
In respect of time, this Act is an immediate sequel to the last.
Scene 1, Interlude (vi. 0¹—vi. 7³). Place: aerial regions above Vālmīki's
hermitage. Enter an air-sprite (Vidyādhara) and his mate, viewing
the combat between Lava and Chandraketu from an aerial car. They
describe the fight: how one missile supersedes another only to be itself
superseded by a third. Victory trembles in the balance. At last they
see Rāma returning from Daṇḍakā in his Pushpaka car (vi. 6⁵) and
stopping the battle. The air-sprites go away.
Scene 2 (vi. 7⁴—vi. 42³). The fighting-ground at a considerable distance
from Vālmīki's hermitage. Enter Rāma, Chandraketu, and Lava.
Chandraketu tells Rāma of the fight and particularly of Lava's valour
(vi. 8²). Rāma feels an unaccountable attraction towards Lava (vi. 9, 12).
Lava, in his turn, is deeply impressed (vi. 10, 11) by the sight of the
great man, who, Chandraketu tells him (vi. 12⁵), is no other than
the hero of the Rāmāyaṇa. Rāma embraces Lava (vi. 13). Lava begs
to be pardoned for his insolent conduct (vi. 13³) but Rāma praises him
for it (vi. 14). Chandraketu then points out how by his jṛimbhaka
missiles Lava has thrown the whole army into a stupor (vi. 14²). Rāma
asks Lava to withdraw the missiles and sends Chandraketu away to
comfort his army. Exit Chandraketu. Rāma inquires of Lava how
he came to have this power over the missiles (vi. 15³). Lava explains
that they two were born to the knowledge of them. ‘Who is the
other?’ asks Rāma. The answer is partly given by a voice behind
the curtain, inquiring in great agitation, after Lava (vi. 16). This is
Lava's elder brother, Kuśa, returning from his errand to sage Bharata
(vi. 17¹, cp. iv. 22³³ ff.). Enters Kuśa, bow in hand. Rāma admires
his bearing (vi. 19). Lava introduces him to Rāma, who embraces
him (vi. 21). As the day was growing hot, Lava suggests reposing
under the shade of a tree (vi. 22¹), which they all do. The appearance
and the deportment of the two boys (vi. 23 f.), their resemblance to
Rāma and Sītā (vi. 25–27), their presence near the place where Sītā
was abandoned, their inborn power over the missiles, which Rāma
remembers now to have transferred in anticipation (i. 15²) to the
offspring of Sītā, and particularly the fact of the boys being twins, as
he knew would be the case with Sītā's issue (vi. 28),—all this seems
to him to be mournfully tantalizing. Rāma weeps. Lava expresses