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

i. 30⁴—] Bhavabhūti — Uttara-Rāma-Charita [24
Lakshmaṇa, to himself—Well then, I will create a diversion. Looking at
the picture, aloud. Here now, aged by [the full length of] an eon,¹ is this
king of vultures, father Jaṭāyus² of honoured name, and [here] the
illustration of his valorous conduct.
Sītā—Alas, father! To its most bitter end (nir-) hast thou carried [this]
thy filial love!
Rāma—Alas, father! Thou descendant of Kaśyapa [and] monarch of the
winged tribes! Where can there be found, once again, another like thee—
a store of holiness, a saint?
Lakshmaṇa—This here, west of Janasthāna, is what they call Chitrakuñja³
—a portion of the Daṇḍakā forest inhabited [once] by the headless Danu.
This on the mountain Ṛishyamūka is the hermitage of [sage] Mataṅga,
and the grounds (padam) adjoining it. Here is the most saintly Śabara
lady, Śramaṇā by name. That again is the lily-pool called Pampā.⁴
Sītā—Here, as I learn (kila), my noble Lord—[all] his passion [for revenge]
(amarsha) and courage forsaking him—wept aloud and in the very fullness
of his heart (kaṇṭha).
Rāma—My Queen, lovely is this [lily-]pool [to me]:
[For,] in this [pool]—when in their youthful merriment the
[blue-beaked] mallikāksha birds shook with their wings the broad
and tremulous stalks of the [white] lotuses—in the intervals
between the risings and fallings of tear-drops, I perceived the
regions to be full of [blue] lotuses.⁵ 31
Lakshmaṇa—This is the noble Hanūmant (Māruti).⁶
Sītā—This is he who has conferred a mighty blessing on this [entire] living
world by uplifting it from the despair wherein it was long plunged—he of
resistless prowess, Māruti!
Rāma—Happily this is he of mighty arms—the source of Añjanā's⁷
joy—by whose valour blessed [in the attainment of their end] are
we ourselves and [all] the worlds! 32
Sītā—Dear brother, this here, with the full-plumed peacocks (barhin)
dancing upon its flowering kadamba trees, by what name is this mountain
called?—where, his majestic grace being all that is left of his pale beauty—

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¹ A manvantara or eon = 306,720,000 human years.
² The vulture Jaṭāyus was a friend of Rāma's father, and met death in the attempt to prevent Sītā's abduction.
³ Lit. 'having many bowers'; the monster Danu infested it.
⁴ For all these persons and places see the Notes to the passage.
⁵ By a transference of the birds' colour to the lotuses on which they were perching.
⁶ A monkey-chieftain, ally of Rāma. He met Sītā in her captivity at Laṅkā, and carried news of her back to Rāma.
⁷ The mother of Māruti.