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

ii. 19²—] Bhavabhūti — Uttara-Rāma-Charita [38
young trees thickly planted and yielding an ample and bluish shade—with
the numerous herds of deer fearlessly [roaming about] : let the noble one
[now] look at these, these serene and awe-inspiring central forests :
Here, as the [youth-]intoxicated birds invade the vānīra creepers,
the flowers [dropping down into the rillets] suffuse with fragrance
their cool and limpid waters;—as the jambū clusters, darkling
with the load of ripening fruit, impede [the rillets in] their
path, their [broken] currents incessantly murmur : thus do these
[mountain-]rillets glide along. 20
Furthermore—
Here, of the young bears that have their lairs in [these] caverns,
the spluttered growls (ambūkṛita) become augmented by the
echoes that they send forth; [and] cool and bitter and pungent as
it is, the exuding fragrance of the śallakī¹ branches, torn from
their joints and scattered about by [rutting] elephants, is [also]
augmented. 21
Rāma, stemming [the flow] of his tears—Friend, happy be your path!
May you attain the Course celestial,² leading you on to the Realms of
the holy!
Śambūka—Meantime I shall do my homage to the ancient Brahman sage,
[the venerable] Agastya, before I enter the Abode eternal. Goes out.
Rāma—This, once more, is that same, same forest that to-day
I behold, [the forest] wherein formerly for many many days we
lived [together], as foresters and as householders, duly discharged
our [several] duties, [and] knew the taste of [all] the charms
of life. 22
Here are those selfsame mountains alive with the cries of
peacocks—these the same wooded ridges full of the lustily sportive
deer. Here again, vocal with [the rustlings of] the lovely vañjula
creepers, are those same river-banks densely fringed with the
sable nichula [trees]. 23
And this here that, like a range of clouds, one can well make out
even from a distance—this is the mountain Prasravaṇa, where is
the river Godāvarī. 24
It was on the mighty crest of this very [mountain] that the king
of vultures [Jaṭāyus] had his abode; and at its foot we likewise
found our comfort in those leafy cottages. The waters of the
¹ A tree the twigs of which form the favourite so the exudations of śallakī intensify the
food of wild elephants. The idea is, as pungent smell of the elephants' rut.
the caverns deepen the growls of bears, ² See Note to the passage.