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

vii. 17¹—] Bhavabhūti — Uttara-Rāma-Charita [100
Lakshmaṇa—Oh, joy and wonder! Behold, behold, my noble brother!
Observing. Woe and alas! He has not even yet recovered his breath!
Then enter Arundhatī and Sītā.
Arundhatī—Haste, child, thou daughter of Videha's king! Away
with this thy bashfulness! Come and revive my dear [Rāma]
with thy hand, the touch of which is [so] dear [to him]. 18
Sītā, in flurry, touching Rāma—Let my noble Lord revive, and compose
himself.
Rāma, reviving, in joy—Oh, what can this be? Observing, with joyful
astonishment. Is it possible? my Queen! In confusion. Oh, and mother
Arundhatī—and Ṛishyaśṛiṅga and Śāntā and all our other gurus, all
beaming with joy!
Arundhatī—Dear [Rāma], here is the exalted Ganges, the Presiding-
divinity of the house of Bhagīratha;¹ she is gracious [towards thee].
[Voice,] behind the curtain—Dear Rāma, Lord of the world, call to mind
what thou saidst to me² when looking at the pictures: [Thou didst then
say—] ‘Be thou, therefore, O [divine] mother, towards this thy daughter-
in-law, Sītā, ever cherishing kindly thoughts—even like unto Arundhatī
[herself].’ I have acquitted myself of my duty therein.
Arundhatī—And here is thy mother-in-law, the exalted giver of all blessings
[the Earth].
[Voice,] behind the curtain—The long-lived one [Rāma] had said³ formerly,
when abandoning Sītā—‘O holy [Earth, thou] Giver of all blessings! This
thy virtuous daughter do thou regard with kindness—this daughter of
Janaka!’ So now I have, O Lord [of men], carried out thy words with
regard to my daughter [Sītā].
Rāma—How! Guilty of grievous offence though Rāma has been, have the
exalted [Goddesses really] shown him their favour [and sympathy]?
Salutes [them].
Arundhatī—Ye people from the city and from the country! Considering
that Pṛithivī and Bhāgīrathī have now [in your presence] commended her
and entrusted her to me, Arundhatī, and that formerly the holy Fire had
attested to her spotless character and Brahmā and all other Gods applauded
her—will you now accept [as your Queen] her, who is the dutiful daughter-
in-law of the Solar race and who is sprung from the [very] sacrificial
ground of the Gods? What do you, my worthy Sirs, think in regard
to this?
¹ For Bhagīratha, see note 6, p. 21. ³ See above, p. 29, near end.
² See above, p. 22, near the top.

101] Act VII, Reunion — Translation [—vii. 19¹⁷
Lakshmaṇa—Thus reproved by the noble Arundhatī, these our subjects,
as also these assembled Beings, one and all, are saluting the noble [Queen],
while the Guardians of the world and the seven sages are honouring her
with a shower of blossoms.
Arundhatī—Lord of the world! My dear Rāma!—
This thy dear [and dutiful Sītā]: employ her now—as the rites
demand—to participate in the religious offices connected with
the sacrifice—her who is the holy [and living] original of that
image of gold. 19
Sītā, to herself—My noble Lord knows how to wipe off Sītā's sorrows.
Rāma—As the exalted [Arundhatī] commands.
Lakshmaṇa—Now have I gained the one wish of my heart!
Sītā—This is life to me!
Lakshmaṇa—Noble Queen, here salutes thee that shameless Lakshmaṇa.
Sītā—Just as thou art, dear [brother], long mayest thou live!
Arundhatī—Exalted Vālmīki, bring forward now, unto [our] dear Rāma,
those two sons of Sītā, Kuśa and Lava. Exit.¹
Rāma and Lakshmaṇa—Oh, joy! It is as we thought.
Sītā, with tears, and agitated—Where, where are my darlings?
Then enters Vālmīki [leading] Kuśa and Lava.
Vālmīki—Kuśa, Lava, my boys! This is the Lord of the Raghus—your
father; this is Lakshmaṇa, your worthy uncle; this is Queen Sītā who
gave you birth: this is the Royal sage Janaka, your mother's father.
Sītā, observing, with joy and sorrow and amazement—How! My father
[Janaka—and here]!
Kuśa and Lava—Oh, father! Oh, mother! Oh, grandfather!
Rāma, embracing [them] joyfully—Why, my dear boys! It must be
through our [special] merit that you have been restored unto us!
¹ There is no apparent reason for this exit The account Lava gives, in Act iv,
unless it was the special object of the of Vālmīki's preparation for the play
poet to leave Vālmīki, as the one highest within the play in Act vii sounds
personage then on the stage, to pronounce almost as a leaf from our poet's auto-
the concluding benediction. In a sense, biography. We further know that in
it is proper that Vālmīki should pro- later times (cp. Rājaśekhara's Bāla-
nounce the benediction, but it is a bit Rāmāyaṇa, Prologue, stanza 16) Bhava-
odd, particularly as the last stanza con- bhūti was regarded as an avatar of
tains a flattering allusion to Vālmīki's Vālmīki. May we, therefore, conclude
own poem. that Bhavabhūti himself played the part
Now we know that Bhavabhūti was of Vālmīki, and came in, just at the end,
on most intimate terms (cp. Prologue to make his courtesy to the audience and
to Mālatī-Mādhava) with the actors. receive their plaudits?

vii. 19¹⁸—] Bhavabhūti — Uttara-Rāma-Charita [102
Sītā—Come, dear Kuśa! Come, dear Lava! Give a long, long embrace to
this your mother, who has [as it were] been born again.
Kuśa and Lava, having done so—We are blessed [to-day]!
Sītā—Exalted Sir, my obeisance!
Vālmīki—My dear child! Thus, oh thus [united to thy Lord and thy
sons] mayest thou long continue!
Sītā—Oh, joy! Here now is my father, [our] family preceptors [Vasishṭha
and Vālmīki], these honoured ladies [my mothers-in-law and the exalted
Arundhatī], queen Śāntā with her husband [Ṛishyaśṛiṅga], as also these
feet of my noble and gracious Lord, together with Lakshmaṇa and Kuśa
and Lava: As I see all these together I am transported with joy!
Tumult behind the curtain.
Vālmīki, rising and observing—Having extirpated the demon Lavaṇa, this
is [Śatrughna] the Lord of Mathurā approaching.¹
Lakshmaṇa—Blessings bring blessings in their train.
Rāma—Although experiencing all this, I cannot yet believe it: this,
however, is in the nature of all wished-for blessings! ²
Vālmīki—Say, my dear Rāma, what further good can I render thee?
Rāma—Beyond all this, can there be any further good? Let there be this,
however—
This story which—even like the Mother of all creation [Earth]
or like the [river] Ganges—cleanses from [all] sins and augments
[every] blessing; [this story] which is full of auspiciousness and
which captivates the heart: may the wise hold in esteem this
[same] story which is here put together in a dramatic form, and
which is the composition (vāṇī) of a Poet ³ of matured genius
and conversant with Brahma-in-the-form-of-the-Word! 20
Exeunt all.
END OF ACT VII
CALLED
REUNION.
END OF THE PLAY.
¹ Cp. Notes to i. 50. ³ Vālmīki; but there is also a secondary
² . Mālatī-Mādhava, vi. 9¹⁵. reference to Bhavabhūti himself.

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