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

vi. 13ᵃᵇ—] Bhavabhūti — Uttara-Rāma-Charita [86
Soft and smooth and tender like the mellowed (pariṇata) interior
of a full-blown lotus, and cool like the moon or like the juice of
sandal—thy touch fills me with joy. 13
Lava, to himself—Such is the causeless affection of this [great personage]
towards me! And I, in my stupidity, conceived hostility even towards
him, and carried my perverseness to the point of taking up arms against
him! Aloud. Will the venerable father now pardon this Lava his childish
folly?
Rāma—What is the fault that the dear one has committed ?
Chandraketu—Hearing from the escorts of the horse the proclamation of
Your Honour's valour, he has displayed his heroism.
Rāma—Why, this is just what adorns a Kshatriya.
For, a valorous man does not tolerate the encroaching valour of
others: such is his proper nature inherent in his constitution and
therefore not artificial; [and this explains] why it is that when
the divine Sun shines incessantly with his rays, the fire-stone,
as if in wounded pride, vomits flames. 14
Chandraketu—Even an intolerance [of this sort] becomes graceful only
in a [great] hero like him. For, let my revered father but see how the
jṛimbhaka missile discharged by my dear friend has thrown all these
forces into a dead stupor!
Rāma, observing—Dear Lava, withdraw the missile; and do thou also,
Chandraketu, console thy forces that are stock-still in paralysing stupor.
Lava falls into a meditation.
Chandraketu—So as you command. Exit.
Lava—The missile is at rest.
Rāma—Dear [Lava], these [jṛimbhaka] missiles and the secret spells for
employing and withdrawing them have a tradition of their own [without
which they cannot be imparted]:
Brahmā (Brahmán) and others, in the interest of the Sacred Truth
(bráhman), practised penances for over a thousand autumns. And
then those Sires (guru) of old obtained a vision of these [missiles]
as if these were the very fires of their own penances. 15
Then the occult formulae relating to the study of these holy [missiles] the
exalted Kṛiśāśva imparted to the son of Kuśika, [Viśvāmitra,] who had been
his pupil for over a thousand years; and that exalted one [Viśvāmitra]
[imparted them] to me. This then has been the previous succession [of
teachers]. I would know therefore whence hast thou, noble youth, received
the tradition?