उत्तररामचरितम् (महाकवि भवभूति - संस्कृत मूल एवं हिन्दी व्याख्या)

—II. 21] UTTARARÂMACHARITA 209
the echo, swell and the perfume, cool pungent and fragrant,
issuing from the joints of the Sâllaki trees split and scattered
about by the elephants, is spread abroad.
Râma —(Restraining his tears) Friend, may the path
called Devayâna be prosperous (safe) to you. Mayest thou
vanish towards the holy worlds !
Sambuka —Having first saluted the sage Agastya, that
old expounder of the knowledge of Brahma, I will enter the
everlasting abode. (so exit)
Râma —(Verse 22) How it is that I behold the
same wood once more to-day wherein we formerly lived for
a long time, both as hermits and house-holders, devoted to
our proper duties, and also tasting the flavour of worldly
pleasures! (Verse 23) These are those very mountains,
with peacocks uttering their notes on them, these are these
very forest lawns with intoxicated deer, these are those same
river banks, covered with beautiful Vanjula creepers, and
having Nichula trees that are deeply merged in water.
(Verse 24) This is the mountain Prasravana where the
river Godâvarî flows by, and which appears as if it were near
and is like a garland of clouds. (Verse 25) On the great
summit of this very mountain was the home of the vulture
king beneath it we found pleasure in those leafy huts, where
is the delightful border of the wood in which coo the noisy
birds and the dark beauty of the trees in which is reflected in
the water of the Godâvarî. Here therefore must be that
Panchavatî where there are spots which on account of our long
sojourn there witnessed an excess of all kinds of confidential
intercourse, and where a dear friend of my beloved, a sylvan
deity Vâsantî by name (dwelt). What is this that has to-day
befallen Râma ? For now, (Verse 26) My grief, having be-
come intense distracts me as if it were fresh, like fierce poison
juice after a long time violently bursting forth and circulating,
like a splinter of an arrow shaken with force from some cause
or other; like an ulcer, the mouth of which had been closed up,
re-opened in the centre of my heart. Nevertheless I shall see
those localities which were my former friends. (Observing)
Oh, the configuration of the objects is altered. For instance,
(Verse 27) where formerly there was the current of a river,
there now is the sand of the rivers, the density and thinness