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

vi. 6ᵃᵇ—] Bhavabhūti — Uttara-Rāma-Charita [84
This wind has dissolved all clouds, numerous though they were,
into we-know-not-what (kvāpi), thus resembling the [highest]
knowledge which dissolves [all] illusory-forms (vivarta) into
the [fathomless] Brahma. 6
Female Sprite—But, my dear, who now is this [person], the fringe of
whose upper garment is floating [to the winds] as he, in flurry, tosses up
his hands, [this one here] who, even from afar, has by his sweet words
forbidden the continuance of the combat and who is bringing [this] his
excellent aerial car to the ground right between the two Princes?
Male Sprite, observing—This is the Lord of the Raghus [Rāma], returning
from [his mission of] killing Śambūka:
Upon hearing the words uttered by this great personage [Rāma],
Lava, out of deference to him, has withheld the discharge [of
further missiles] and is appeased; Chandraketu is already paying
his homage: may happiness attend the King [Rāma] by his being
united with his [own] sons! 7
Come, let us hence. Both go out.
END OF INTERLUDE.
Then enter Rāma, and Lava, and Chandraketu [in the act of] making
obeisance [to Rāma].
Rāma, alighting from the Pushpaka—
Moon (chandra) of the Solar race, my Chandraketu, come, quick,
let me hold thee fast to my bosom! With thy body, cool like
a lump of snow, let all the burnings of my heart be allayed! 8
Raising him up and embracing him with tears of affection. Has it all
been prosperous with thee and the celestial weapons into which thou hast
been initiated?
Chandraketu—All prosperous, [especially] by the happy acquisition of this
sweet-looking and wonderfully valiant Lava. Let me request my honoured
sire, therefore, to regard with the same affection with which you are wont
to regard me, or even with more, this most eminent hero.
Rāma, observing Lava—Happily this my son's [Chandraketu's] friend has
a form that is at once quite serene and charming:
He seems to be the very Science of Arms assuming a bodily form
to protect the people; or is he the Code of Chivalry (kshātra-
dharma) itself encased in a [human] body to safeguard the
treasure of the Sacred Word? He is as if the aggregation of