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

i. 23ᵈ—] Bhavabhūti — Uttara-Rāma-Charita [22
thousand sons,] those grand-sires of his own sire, when, O exalted
one, they [their ashes] were touched by thy [holy] waters. 23
Be thou, therefore, O [divine] mother, towards [this] thy daughter-in-law,
Sītā, ever cherishing kindly thoughts—even like Arundhatī [herself]!
Lakshmaṇa—Here, on this way leading to the [mountain] Chitrakūṭa,
which was shown us by [the sage] Bharadvāja—[here] upon this bank of
the [river] Kālindī [Jumna]—is the banian-tree named Śyāma.
Sītā—Does my noble Lord remember this region here?
Rāma—How can I, darling, forget it!
For it was here that these tender-limbs of thine, lovely and
languid and drooping like a crushed lotus-stalk—exhausted with
the journey’s fatigues, [and so] close [mutual] embraces [alone]
doing the work of their shampooings—[these limbs of thine] thou
didst on my bosom repose and so sink into sleep! 24
Lakshmaṇa—Here is [the demon] Virādha obstructing [our] entrance into
the Vindhya-forest.
Sītā—Have done with this. I would rather see how—my noble Lord’s
hand holding a tāla-branch as an umbrella over me and [thus] shielding
me from the sun—how we journeyed through the Southern Forest.
Rāma—These here, along the banks of the mountain-rillets, these are
the penance-groves of the hermits who find shelter under the trees.
In these [groves], ever intent on hospitality, the peaceful dwellers,
cook their handful of wild-rice (nīvāra) and have their dwellings. 25
Lakshmaṇa—[This mountain,] with its dense clusters of trees imparting
a deep glossy blueness to the forests on its slopes, [forests] which hem in
[the current of the river] Godāvarī and [thus] cause the ravines to resound
—[this here,] with its blueness still further enhanced by the incessantly
pouring clouds [on its top]—here, situated in the heart of Janasthāna,¹ is
this mountain Prasravaṇa.²
Rāma—Dost thou, O fair-limbed one, remember, on this mountain—
while Lakshmaṇa attended upon us and chased away all our
cares—those days [that we once passed]? Dost thou likewise
remember [the river] Godāvarī with its refreshing banks? And
dost thou also remember our strolls in its neighbourhood? 26
Here likewise—
While those delicious nothings (kimapi) softly, gently—cheek
meeting cheek in [close] contact—we kept talking at random;
while a fast embrace kept of us both a hand each engaged—
¹ The habitable section of the forest of      ² Literally, ‘streaming’ or ‘full of streams’.
   Daṇḍakā.